BREEZY! Chris Brown is joining with New Era for a line of hats. The Chris New Era hats will go on sale this month. LALATE has the detail on where you can buy Chris Brown’s stylin’ New Era Hats. The Brown line will be baseball cap styled and carry one of six different designs, all done [...]

VIDEO! Watch “Obama The One”, the new John McCain video against Barack Obama. “Obama The One” makes fun of Obama by starting “It shall be known that in 2008, the world shall be blessed. They will call him the one,” Obama The One draws most from a line that Hillary Clinton mocked of Obama. Obama had said, as [...]

NEW MUSIC! Listen to “Get Back” from Demi Lovato. “Get Back” has just hit the net today as the first single from Demi Lovato off her fall 2008 album. “Get Back” showcases Demi Lovato’s great focus in a heart hitting rock song stylied in 1980s beats. LALATE’s fav girl Demi is currently on tour with the [...]

· Shia LeBeouf (not to mention his truck, his hand, his reputation and Transformers 2) has had better weeks.
· A 5.4 earthquake left us both shaken and stirred.
· The Dark Cock Knight ended its second week of mint-making and critic-threatening.
· Marketing milestones included Miley Cyrus for condoms and Manoj for Hallmark.
· While fans raved online, America's most respected critics gave The Hills two thumbs up.
· This year's Emmy host appears to have had some major work done recently.
· Republicans and celebrity: An idea whose time has come. And gone. That was fast!
· Except for Elisabeth Hasselbeck. But Whoopi Goldberg is working on it.
· A frozen George Lucas was a good (or at least a better) George Lucas.
· Our own Molly McAleer celebrated Take Your Son to Work Day.
· We'll ask again: Which male TV personality was caught weeping in a dollar store?
· The Tomfather was implicated in Scientology Mafiagate.
· A stolen story and Kevin Costner's own $20 million later, behold Swing Vote.
· Ali Lohan is meeting adults! Especially the dirty old ones!

The backlash to the Dark Knight backlash isn't exactly news — not after two weeks and almost $400 million dollars silencing even the most vehement of the film's critics. But today we direct our attention to the more disturbing phenomenon of physical threats against some of those same critics, a few of whose lives have even been targeted by rogue fanboys with a taste for reviewer blood. We hardly believed it ourselves until an unsettling taxonomy of freaks coming after reviewers Jürgen Fauth and Keith Uhlich showcased the worst of it:

Some go no deeper than "Fag!"; some are actually amusing — "Keep your head in Little Women and Suffrage texts you pansy" — but others are downright ugly. On Rotten Tomatoes, someone felt it would be beneficial to post as many personal details about Jürgen that they could find, while another likened his crime to Joan of Arc's:

"This guy is a terd [sic], let him rot. Lets [sic] burn him at the stake!"

The comments left for Keith are even more vile, particularly this one, which the author later claimed was written while channeling his inner Joker. Yikes. (All [sic]):

"You know, some people have been so enraged by your little opinion piece that they want you to kill yourself. Please DON'T!!! You know why, because I am going to have so much fun killing you myself! I promise, it WON'T be painless. I am going to carve a smile in your face. And then I am going to carve you stomach. And you know why? Because i just want my phone call. You're my bitch now! I am going to track you down through your IP address and then I am going to f@#%!%* kill you!!!"

Daaammmn. Worried as we are for Mssrs. Fauth and Uhlich, really: You've got to see this in IMAX. Michael Caine will be campaigning for these guys' Oscar nominations by Monday.

• Hell Hath No Fury Like a Fanboy Scorned [Filmbrain]

Is Johnny Depp Set to Celebrate His Unbirthday? Those casting rumors just continue to pile up for the actor, with unconfirmed reports that director Tim Burton has selected him to play the Mad Hatter in his forthcoming 3-D (!) adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. So far, only In Treatment's Mia Wasikowska has been confirmed to star in the megabucks live action/CGI film, but we expect an imminent announcement of Burton's wifely muse Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen of Hearts (even though we'd much rather see the wild-haired actress essay the Cheshire Cat). [The Herald]

When the city shook this week, scattering whole herds of TV paragons from their studios in bug-eyed panic, one institution stood firm: Dirt Sandwich. Better yet, the week's greatest hits in entertainment news saw it all, from Billy Bush's pants-soiling to Mark McGrath's penultimate humiliation as the outgoing host of Extra! to the seismic justice rocking Judge Judy's courtroom. And when the Earth stilled, there were Elizabeth Taylor and Miss USA (among others) to give the aftermath a touch of awkward class. Yes, behold Dirt Sandwich, as assembled by noble Defamer videographer Molly McAleer — monolithic, omniscient, sturdy and altogether delicious. Take a bite, won't you?

Ranae Shrider is responding to Verne Troyer’s $20 million lawsuit. Troyer is seeking from Ranae Shrider $20 million reportedly claiming in his lawsuit that Ranae Shrider allegedly caused him emotional distress and battery.“When you pick up a two-foot eight-inch human being and throw him to the floor, it hurts,” Verne’s lawyer, Ed McPherson, says of the abuse. Now [...]