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News: Browne's BP cost-cutting led to Gulf spill, book says Auction of Oscar statuettes brings in $3 million Ridley Scott, Japan TV team up on quake documentary Former Monkee Davy Jones dies at age 66 in Florida Elder sister of Cuba's Fidel and Raul Castro dies at 88 Lady Gaga lends star wattage to youth empowerment Florence Welch eclipses Adele at NME music awards Analysis: NBC caught between rising "Voice", crashing "Smash" Adele still No. 1 on album chart, holds off Houston Former Monkee Davy Jones dies at age 66 in Florida Romantic comedy to open Tribeca film festival James Murdoch gives up News International role A Minute With: Kristen Chenoweth on her new show "GCB" Russian media genie pushing at the bottle New Panasonic chief heeds the need for speed Stein family impact on avant-garde French art on show Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck welcome son: report Meryl Streep makes donations to Viola Davis' charities Charlie Sheen's "Anger Management" gets premiere date Lyle Lovett makes writers block work on latest album Lindsay Lohan no longer party girl, now a "homebody" MOG not trying to sell itself: CEO Michel Hazanavicius wins directing Oscar for "The Artist" Behind NY's catwalks, legal contracts abound Streep donates $10,000 in Davis's honor to R.I. school New HBO series to shadow war photographers Cuba Gooding Jr. Starring in Fox Drama Pilot, "Guilty" Internal Murdoch inquiry covers four UK newspapers "Dancing With the Stars" avoids conflict with new cast New Panasonic chief to chase TV profit, not volume Stein family impact on avant-garde French art on show James Bond and Batman help rescue London developers Hollywood Republicans keeping wallets shut Alan Ball stepping down from "True Blood" Lucy Liu joins CBS Sherlock Holmes pilot "Elementary" John McCain has no plans to watch HBO's "Game Change" Is there a "Brad Pitt Curse" for current, former flames? Tribeca to release Martin Donovan's "Collaborator" "The Artist" to be seen in more theaters this weekend James Spader quits "The Office" Browne's BP cost-cutting led to Gulf spill, book says Wed,29 Feb 2012 07:58 PM PST Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The public image of oil giant BP Plc has taken some huge hits since the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill but a new book purporting to look inside BP may open up a whole new set of thorny questions about the company. "Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster," by ProPublica investigative reporter Abrahm Lustgarten, offers a detailed portrait of a corporate culture that seemed to value controlling costs above human life. ... Full Story Top Auction of Oscar statuettes brings in $3 million Wed,29 Feb 2012 07:15 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fifteen Oscar statuettes have sold for a total of $3 million at an online auction, the most money made from a single collection of Oscars in a sale by bid, organizers said on Wednesday. Los Angeles auctioneer Nate D. Sanders said the hot seller of the collection was Herman Mankiewicz's statuette for best screenplay, which he won for co-writing the 1941 film "Citizen Kane" with Orson Welles. The Oscar sold for $588,455. ... Full Story Top Ridley Scott, Japan TV team up on quake documentary Wed,29 Feb 2012 04:50 PM PST Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Filmmaker Ridley Scott and Fuji Television are teaming up to make "Japan in a Day," a documentary about how people spend the first anniversary of last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami. The project is dedicated to those who lost their lives or are still suffering from the March 11 disaster, which killed nearly 20,000 people and set off the Fukushima nuclear crisis, organizers said in a release. ... Full Story Top Former Monkee Davy Jones dies at age 66 in Florida Wed,29 Feb 2012 04:41 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Davy Jones, a onetime teen heartthrob as a member of the 1960s made-for-television pop band the Monkees, died on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack near his home in Florida, according to his longtime publicist. He was 66. Jones was stricken while attending to racehorses he kept in Indiantown, Florida, about halfway between the Atlantic coast and Lake Okeechobee, spokeswoman Helen Kensick said. Jones had lived with his third wife, Jessica Pacheco-Jones, in Hollywood, Florida, in recent years, she said. ... Full Story Top Elder sister of Cuba's Fidel and Raul Castro dies at 88 Wed,29 Feb 2012 04:25 PM PST Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - The older sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro has died in Havana at the age of 88, a sibling who lives in Miami said. Angela Castro, who was the oldest of seven Castro siblings, died on Tuesday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, her sister, Juanita Castro, told Cafe Fuerte, a Miami-based website closely watched by the Cuban exile community. "She had been sick in a clinic for some time," said Castro. "She never left Cuba and I never saw her after I left the country. It's the tragedy that all divided Cuban families have suffered. ... Full Story Top Lady Gaga lends star wattage to youth empowerment Wed,29 Feb 2012 03:42 PM PST Reuters - CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Pop diva Lady Gaga brought her star power, her mom and some of her famous friends, including Oprah Winfrey, to Harvard University on Wednesday to launch a new foundation aimed at empowering young people and stamping out bullying. "If you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it," Gaga said as she officially kicked off the "Born this Way Foundation," named after her 2011 hit album and single, with a series of events at the top U.S. university. "This is about transformative change in culture. ... Full Story Top Florence Welch eclipses Adele at NME music awards Wed,29 Feb 2012 03:02 PM PST Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Florence Welch won two prizes at the NME music awards in London on Wednesday, eclipsing chart champion and Grammy and BRITs queen Adele. Welch, 25, won the best solo artist category and her band Florence + the Machine scooped best song with "Shake It Out" from their "Ceremonials" album which they performed on the night. The singer also teamed up with English band The Horrors at the O2 Academy Brixton to sing "Still Life" taken from the band's "Skying", which went on to win the best album honor. ... Full Story Top Analysis: NBC caught between rising "Voice", crashing "Smash" Wed,29 Feb 2012 02:50 PM PST Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Since their debut four weeks ago, NBC's two most-talked about TV shows have been on opposite trajectories: "The Voice" has soared in the ratings, while viewership for "Smash" has crashed. Monday's episode of "The Voice," which pits teams of singers selected by music stars Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine from the band Maroon 5 against each other, garnered 14.9 million viewers, up 49 percent from the same episode in the previous season. ... Full Story Top Adele still No. 1 on album chart, holds off Houston Wed,29 Feb 2012 02:03 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three new albums and fans of the late Whitney Houston were unable to oust Adele from her top spot on the Billboard 200 chart on Wednesday, as the British singer notched a 22nd week at No. 1 with her Grammy-winning record "21." The multi-platinum "21" has sold more than 7.6 million copies in the U.S. since its release in February 2012 and continued strong sales with 296,000 copies snapped up by listeners last week. The last album to sit at No. ... Full Story Top Former Monkee Davy Jones dies at age 66 in Florida Wed,29 Feb 2012 01:35 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Davy Jones, a onetime teen heartthrob as a member of the 1960s made-for-television pop band The Monkees, died on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack near his home in Florida, according to his longtime publicist. He was 66. Jones was stricken while attending to horses he kept in Indiantown, Florida, about halfway between the Atlantic coast and Lake Okeechobee, spokeswoman Helen Kensick said. He had lived with his third wife, Jessica Pacheco-Jones, in Hollywood, Florida, in recent years, she said. She gave no further details of his death. ... Full Story Top Romantic comedy to open Tribeca film festival Wed,29 Feb 2012 01:04 PM PST Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new romantic comedy by the team behind "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" will open the Tribeca Film Festival that begins in April, festival organizers said on Wednesday. "The Five-Year Engagement" is directed by Nicholas Stoller and stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as an engaged couple who keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. ... Full Story Top James Murdoch gives up News International role Wed,29 Feb 2012 12:59 PM PST Reuters - (Reuters) - James Murdoch resigned as executive chairman of News International on Wednesday, raising new doubts he can succeed his father Rupert as CEO of parent company News Corp in the wake of a phone hacking scandal at the unit he oversaw. It also raises the possibility that one of his older siblings -- Elisabeth or Lachlan -- could emerge as an eventual contender for the top job, according to people familiar with the matter. ... Full Story Top A Minute With: Kristen Chenoweth on her new show "GCB" Wed,29 Feb 2012 11:00 AM PST Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tony Award winning actress, Kristin Chenoweth, returns to prime time television with "GCB" (Good Christian Belles), portraying a Botox-injecting Bible blogger, Carlene Cockburn. The once ugly duckling is living a picture perfect life until former nemesis, Amanda, returns to their hometown of Dallas, Texas, and that's where the laughs begin. Chenoweth, star of film, TV and stage, also recently released a country album, "Some Lessons Learned," featuring songs by Dolly Parton, Diane Warren and Lady Antebellum's, Hillary Scott. ... Full Story Top Russian media genie pushing at the bottle Wed,29 Feb 2012 10:14 AM PST Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - It was like the bad old days of Soviet TV for Vladimir Pozner, a Russian broadcaster who began his career under Communism, when he found editors had cut parts of a pre-election talk show where he mentioned critics of the Kremlin. But this is 2012. With censorship grown patchy and half the country online, the uncut program had been uploaded to the web - thanks to viewers in Russia's far east who had caught the show live, before the edited version was broadcast in Moscow later. ... Full Story Top New Panasonic chief heeds the need for speed Wed,29 Feb 2012 01:06 AM PST Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Kazuhiro Tsuga, the new head of Japan's sprawling electronics maker Panasonic Corp, has set a priority to get the lumbering and loss-making company to make decisions quickly. The 55-year-old, three-decade Panasonic veteran replaces Fumio Ohtsubo, 66, who moves to the chairman's office where he will still wield some influence over business strategy in a corporate culture that tends to take its time when it comes to making decisions. "My main concern is whether I can instill a sense of speed," Tsuga told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday. ... Full Story Top Stein family impact on avant-garde French art on show Tue,28 Feb 2012 07:24 PM PST Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Few people have had more influence on the impact of avant-garde art in early 20th century Paris and the careers of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse than the writer and collector Gertrude Stein and her siblings. In a new exhibition, "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde" which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday and runs through June 3, their patronage and friendships with the emerging artists of their day is chronicled through the works they collected. ... Full Story Top Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck welcome son: report Tue,28 Feb 2012 07:04 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Star couple Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have welcomed their third child, a baby boy, People magazine said on Tuesday, without giving further details. Garner, who made her name in the television drama "Alias," wed actor and producer Affleck in June 2005 at a private ceremony in Turks and Caicos, in the Caribbean. They welcomed their first daughter, Violet, in December 2005, and second daughter Seraphina in 2009. ... Full Story Top Meryl Streep makes donations to Viola Davis' charities Tue,28 Feb 2012 05:30 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Meryl Streep paid tribute to Viola Davis this week, contributing $20,000 to two Rhode Island charities connected to "The Help" star. The donations came after Streep bested Davis in the race for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "The Iron Lady." The Oscar winner wrote a check for $10,000 to Upward Bound to honor Davis, the program's director Mariam Z. Boyajian confirmed to TheWrap. Boyajian said it was the largest donation in the organization's history. "I was writing to her when you called," Boyajian told TheWrap. ... Full Story Top Charlie Sheen's "Anger Management" gets premiere date Tue,28 Feb 2012 05:00 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - FX will kick off its summer comedy slate with a packed night on June 28, starting with back-to-back episodes of Charlie Sheen's new venture "Anger Management," the network said Monday. On the same night, Russell Brand's new talk show "Strangely Uplifting" will debut, and the new seasons of "Wilfred" and "Louie" will premiere. "Anger Management" will air two new episodes at 9 p.m. and 9:30, after which the show will run Thursdays at 9:30, with the previous week's episode airing at 9 p.m. ... Full Story Top Lyle Lovett makes writers block work on latest album Tue,28 Feb 2012 05:00 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - How happy is Lyle Lovett to be wrapping up his 26-year tenure with Curb Records? Clues abound, not just in the telling title of his new album, "Release Me," but the cover art, which has Lovett bound neck-to-ankle in a lariat. One might also take a hint from the fact that he only wrote two of the album's 14 tunes, which smacks of a "Contractual Obligation Album" (as Monty Python once titled a record). ... Full Story Top Lindsay Lohan no longer party girl, now a "homebody" Tue,28 Feb 2012 04:15 PM PST Reuters - (Reuters) - Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan says she is putting her bad girl image behind her and starting a fresh chapter in life, getting back to acting after recent years of personal turmoil that included arrests and stints in jail. The actress, 25, who is on probation from a string of legal troubles including drunk driving, drug possession and theft, has recently impressed court officials with good behavior and seemed eager to continue on a straight-and-narrow path. ... Full Story Top MOG not trying to sell itself: CEO Tue,28 Feb 2012 02:55 PM PST Reuters - (Reuters) - Digital music start-up MOG isn't actively trying to sell itself, its chief executive said on Tuesday, responding to a report that said his company is struggling in the competitive music subscription business. MOG now has more than 500,000 active users, according to CEO David Hyman, but he did not break out how many are fully paid-up subscribers. Since integrating the music service into Facebook last fall, nearly 5,000 new users a day have tried out the site he said. CNET earlier on Tuesday reported that MOG was struggling and is up for sale. ... Full Story Top Michel Hazanavicius wins directing Oscar for "The Artist" Tue,28 Feb 2012 02:38 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Frenchman Michel Hazanavicius won the Oscar for best directing on Sunday for "The Artist," a homage to Hollywood's silent era that starred the filmmaker's wife. The silent, black-and-white movie which also took the best picture award focuses on a fading star who finds redemption through the love of a woman just as silent movies are being taken over by talkies. It was Hazanavicius' first Oscar nomination and his first win. He also won the BAFTA and Directors Guild prizes for "The Artist," which he also wrote. ... Full Story Top Behind NY's catwalks, legal contracts abound Tue,28 Feb 2012 02:33 PM PST Reuters - (Reuters) - Behind the scenes of New York Fashion Week, reams of legal contracts bind together designers, models, hair and make-up artists, photographers, stagehands, lighting technicians and even celebrities flaunting their clothes. These days fashion contracts can range from a premium price of up to $65,000 to rent the main runway at Lincoln Center where the top designers tend to show, to a smaller designer's DJ contract including a clause that the DJ must have the right to publicly broadcast the music they pump out during the show. ... Full Story Top Streep donates $10,000 in Davis's honor to R.I. school Tue,28 Feb 2012 02:17 PM PST Reuters - (Reuters) - The morning after actress Meryl Streep walked off with an Oscar many bet would go to Viola Davis, Streep gave a cash-strapped school in Rhode Island a $10,000 donation in Davis's honor, the school's founder said on Tuesday. Davis, 46, has been a champion for now-bankrupt Central Falls, Rhode Island, the town she grew up in and has herself donated cash to help keep the library open. Her longtime friend and sometimes rival Streep, 62, in response to Davis's cheerleading sent a $10,000 check to a local charter school, the Segue Institute for Learning, which faces closure. ... Full Story Top New HBO series to shadow war photographers Tue,28 Feb 2012 01:24 PM PST Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new television documentary series created by Hollywood director Michael Mann about war photographers promises to follow a new generation of photojournalists into places of conflict including Mexico, Brazil, Uganda and Libya, HBO said on Tuesday. The series, called "Witness," will include at least four episodes with the first shot in the region of Juarez, Mexico, one of the country's violent drug war regions. Mann, the director of such films as "The Insider" and "Public Enemies," will collaborate with director David Frankham on the series. ... Full Story Top Cuba Gooding Jr. Starring in Fox Drama Pilot, "Guilty" Tue,28 Feb 2012 12:34 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Another big-screen star heads to primetime. "Jerry Maguire" Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. is headlining the Fox drama pilot "Guilty." Reps for Fox and the actor confirm to TheWrap that he'll star in the drama, created by "Brothers & Sisters" producers Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim. "Guilty" revolves around Gooding's character, an ethically ambiguous defense attorney who loses his legal license after being falsely accused of fraud. ... Full Story Top Internal Murdoch inquiry covers four UK newspapers Tue,28 Feb 2012 09:50 AM PST Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A massive email cache that a corporate clean-up team has assembled as part of its effort to cooperate with British police contains message traffic generated by journalists at all four British newspapers once published by Rupert Murdoch, sources familiar with the unit's work said. The clean-up team, known as the Management and Standards Committee (MSC) of Murdoch's US-based News Corp, is investigating reporting practices across all Murdoch's current and former UK properties, said one of the sources familiar with the company's internal investigations. ... Full Story Top "Dancing With the Stars" avoids conflict with new cast Tue,28 Feb 2012 09:49 AM PST Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Television ballroom contest "Dancing With the Stars" took a step back from controversy with its new cast unveiled on Tuesday, including tennis champ Martina Navratilova, several TV actors, an opera singer and Gladys Knight without her "Pips." "Dancing With the Stars" annually is among the top-rated U.S. TV shows with a formula that pairs B-list celebrities, sports stars and singers with professional dancers performing sambas, cha-cha-chas and waltzes across a ballroom floor. ... Full Story Top New Panasonic chief to chase TV profit, not volume Tue,28 Feb 2012 04:07 AM PST Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics giant Panasonic Corp named the head of its loss-making TV business as its new president and pledged to get the TV division back on track within two years as the group heads for a record $10 billion loss. Kazuhiro Tsuga, 55, who has been at the company for more than three decades, will replace Fumio Ohtsubo, who becomes chairman - still in a position of influence and a role that outgoing presidents in Japan usually take. Founded as a maker of plugs almost a century ago, Panasonic has warned it will make a loss of 780 billion yen ($9. ... Full Story Top Stein family impact on avant-garde French art on show Tue,28 Feb 2012 02:49 AM PST Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Few people have had more influence on the impact of avant-garde art in early 20th century Paris and the careers of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse than the writer and collector Gertrude Stein and her siblings. In a new exhibition, "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde" which opens at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday and runs through June 3, their patronage and friendships with the emerging artists of their day is chronicled through the works they collected. ... Full Story Top James Bond and Batman help rescue London developers Tue,28 Feb 2012 02:11 AM PST Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood is helping London developers weather the financial crisis by turning empty offices into film sets, providing cash and publicity for landlords struggling to fill buildings with tenants because of the uncertain economic outlook. In addition to films and television shows, a growing number of developers are also opening their doors to events like London Fashion Week or temporary retail sites for online companies such as Amazon, eBay and Google. ... Full Story Top Hollywood Republicans keeping wallets shut Mon,27 Feb 2012 07:07 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - GOP support may be growing in Hollywood, but the money hasn't exactly been flowing to the party's presidential hopefuls. Front-runner Mitt Romney has fared the best among the GOP field, picking up donations from Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns, former Metro Goldwyn Mayer chief Harry Sloan, and former Yahoo! and Warner Bros. head Terry Semel, according to recent campaign filings. Romney also raised an estimated $1 million at a December fundraiser at the Beverly Hills Hotel. ... Full Story Top Alan Ball stepping down from "True Blood" Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:47 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "True Blood's" upcoming fifth season will be the last with Alan Ball in charge. Ball, who created and executive produces HBO's vampire drama, will not continue as the series' showrunner if the show goes on to another season, the network confirmed to TheWrap on Monday. According to HBO, the decision came about last summer, when Ball extended his overall deal with the network. ... Full Story Top Lucy Liu joins CBS Sherlock Holmes pilot "Elementary" Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:46 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Elementary, my dear Watson? Hardly. Lucy Liu has joined the cast of CBS' Sherlock Holmes-drama pilot -- as Holmes' assistant Watson. Who traditionally has been portrayed by, you know, male actors. With "Charlie's Angels" star Liu in the role, Watson is being re-envisioned as Joan Watson, who lives with Holmes in modern-day New York. "Trainspotting" actor Jonny Lee Miller, who recently had a run on Showtime's serial-killer hit "Dexter," will star as the legendary sleuth Holmes in the pilot, which comes via CBS Television Studios and Timberman-Beverly Productions. ... Full Story Top John McCain has no plans to watch HBO's "Game Change" Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:38 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES, Feb 27 (TheWrap.com) - Sounds like HBO has lost a viewer for its upcoming political biopic "Game Change." Sen. John McCain -- whose 2008 presidential campaign gets the dramatization treatment in the film -- asserted on Saturday that he has no intention of watching the film, which premieres on the network March 10. "This new movie that comes out, (people) ask me if I'm gonna watch it," the Republican senator from Arizona said during a campaign stop for current GOP candidate Mitt Romney. "I tell them it'll be a cold day in Gila Bend, Ariz. ... Full Story Top Is there a "Brad Pitt Curse" for current, former flames? Mon,27 Feb 2012 05:40 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Warning: Hooking up with Brad Pitt can be hazardous to your career. The two-time People Magazine "Sexiest Man Alive" winner had a toxic effect on lovers past and present over the weekend. Current flame Angelina Jolie's bizarre leg-baring stance during the Oscar ceremony prompted Best Adapted Screenplay winner Jim Rash to ape her sexually provocative pose while accepting his award. It also inspired a Twitter feed @AngiesRightLeg that has 18,000 followers and counting. Sample tweet: "Left leg and I talked -- everything's cool. Next Oscars, she gets the slit. ... Full Story Top Tribeca to release Martin Donovan's "Collaborator" Mon,27 Feb 2012 05:40 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Tribeca Film has acquired domestic distribution rights to "Collaborator," Martin Donovan's comedic drama -- the actor's directorial debut, the company said Monday. Tribeca Film plans a summer release for the movie. Donovan stars in the film, which he wrote and directed. In "Collaborator," Donovan plays Robert Longfellow, a famous playwright whose new play has bombed and whose marriage is becoming rocky. ... Full Story Top "The Artist" to be seen in more theaters this weekend Mon,27 Feb 2012 05:39 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES, Feb 27 (TheWrap.com) - Don't expect to see "The Artist," winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, on DVD any time soon. Do expect to see this year's best film winner in more theaters -- more than double the number -- starting next weekend. The Weinstein Co. plans to increase the number of theaters showing its movie from 966 last weekend to 2,000 on Friday. "We're going to give it the chance to get that big box-office bump that it can get from the Academy Award," Erik Lomis, the Weinstein Co.'s distribution president, told TheWrap. It could be more than a bump. ... Full Story Top James Spader quits "The Office" Mon,27 Feb 2012 03:57 PM PST Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - James Spader is taking early retirement from "The Office." The former "Boston Legal" star is leaving the NBC sitcom after he completes the current eighth season of the series, which was his first with the show, the network confirms to TheWrap. Spader played new Dunder Mifflin/Sabre CEO Robert California. He replaced outgoing manager Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, after appearing at the end of the series' seventh season. He then quickly earned a promotion to CEO. ... Full Story Top

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