Darin and I had our croissants and coffee at the local patisserie for breakfast* as we read the newspaper. Darin came across this item:

Affable everyman Seth Rogen has built an impressive and lucrative career playing doughy slackers in movies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up,” but is he now tampering with his winning formula, important ingredients of which apparently are beer, weed and econo-size bags of Cheetos?

Because Rogen’s next role is that of a superhero (the Green Hornet), and for the part he has lost a bunch of weight, the very thing that made him such an unlikely leading man.

“Oh right,” Darin said. “He’s going to lose some weight and suddenly morph into George Clooney, only Jewish.”

Okay, I thought that was hilarious.

* We are so French and sophisticated, mais non?

Addendum to the issue that’s just hit the stands, with You Know Who on the cover:

Entertainment Weekly’s early look at the new Harry Potter movie just a got a whole lot earlier. In a last-minute move, Warner Bros. has just announced that the studio is pulling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from its fall lineup and rescheduled it for July 17, 2009. In an irony sure to set blogger hearts beating giddily, the film graces the cover of EW’s new fall preview issue, which hits stands today. EW and Warner Bros. share a parent company, but they clearly do not share, you know, important friggin’ information.