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Here’s who’s on the late night talk shows tonight.

• Charlie Rose: coverage of the Democratic National Convention
• The Daily Show: Ben Stiller (repeat)
• The Colbert Report: Dick Meyer (repeat)
• The Late Show with David Letterman: Tracy Morgan, Shawn Johnson, and Solange
• Jay Leno: Senator John McCain, Dara Torres, and Juliana Hatfield
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: James Franco, Tommy Lee, and From First to Last (repeat)
• Tavis Smiley: coverage of the Democratic National Convention
• Late Night with Conan O’Brien: Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Coogan, and The Hold Steady
• The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Sigourney Weaver, Stanley Bing, and Three 6 Mafia (repeat)
• Last Call with Carson Daly: Jose Canseco and Lupe Fiasco (repeat)

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He’s survived being encased in ice, being buried alive in a grave, being trapped in a plexiglass box high in the air, holding his breath underwater for Oprah, and standing on top of a pedestal for a few days, but this is the first stunt where magician David Blaine will wear magnetic footwear. Take that, Criss Angel!

ABC has announced the next special to feature Blaine, who seems to be loved and loathed in equal measure. The show is titled “The Dive of Death,” and will feature Blaine walking on the underside of a thin wire high above Wollman Rink in New York City. He’ll do it for three days and nights, with the help of magnetic boots. On a related note, “The Dive of Death” also describes the bar down the street from my apartment.

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Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free

Here’s who’s on the late night talk shows tonight.

• Charlie Rose: coverage of the Democratic National Convention
• The Daily Show: Ben Stiller (repeat)
• The Colbert Report: Dick Meyer (repeat)
• The Late Show with David Letterman: Tracy Morgan, Shawn Johnson, and Solange
• Jay Leno: Senator John McCain, Dara Torres, and Juliana Hatfield
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: James Franco, Tommy Lee, and From First to Last (repeat)
• Tavis Smiley: coverage of the Democratic National Convention
• Late Night with Conan O’Brien: Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Coogan, and The Hold Steady
• The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Sigourney Weaver, Stanley Bing, and Three 6 Mafia (repeat)
• Last Call with Carson Daly: Jose Canseco and Lupe Fiasco (repeat)

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*Warning: Clip contains foul language.*

Only nine years ago, Ron Livingston played the young, fax machine-stealing, disgruntled worker Peter Gibbons in Office Space. Whoever would’ve thought that less than a decade later, he’d head back to the office to be an aging businessman. Man, Hollywood is tough on age.

Variety reports the Livingston will lead an indie comedy called The Company Men, that Raul Sanchez will direct from his own screenplay. As the star, Ron gets to be “an aging businessman who struggles with a collapsing economy as he tries to save a sinking company.” I guess the over-the-hill moniker sticks (Livingston is 41). It’ll be interesting to see how this lives up to the cult favorite, and fan expectations. But really, the big question is: Will he use a red Swingline stapler?

Meanwhile, Livingston has a co-starring gig in The Time Traveler’s Wife, which hits screens on Christmas Day.

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He’s survived being encased in ice, being buried alive in a grave, being trapped in a plexiglass box high in the air, holding his breath underwater for Oprah, and standing on top of a pedestal for a few days, but this is the first stunt where magician David Blaine will wear magnetic footwear. Take that, Criss Angel!

ABC has announced the next special to feature Blaine, who seems to be loved and loathed in equal measure. The show is titled “The Dive of Death,” and will feature Blaine walking on the underside of a thin wire high above Wollman Rink in New York City. He’ll do it for three days and nights, with the help of magnetic boots. On a related note, “The Dive of Death” also describes the bar down the street from my apartment.

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You think Hilary Swank would have learned her lesson after finding deep love that died way too early and left her with a suspenders scar. You’d also think she might be wary about her involvement in perky fare, since her forays into the genre haven’t brought her as much success as her dramatic work. Guess not.

Swank is going nuts scooping up projects to produce and star in. Earlier this month, she was looking at Fat, and now Variety reports that she wants to backstab her best friend. Along with producing partner Molly Smith she’s grabbed Emily Giffin’s debut novel, Something Borrowed. Instead of borrowing, say, a hairbrush, she’s stealing her friend’s man. This potential starring vehicle for the actress focuses on a “Manhattan attorney who becomes involved with her best friend’s fiance following her 30th birthday.” Yes, her best friend since elementary school. Oh, but before you think she’s the only jerk — the woman realizes she’s in love with the man and sick of her manipulative friend. Wait. That’s still jerky.

The project is out to writers, and Swank has already practiced one unhappy-lookin face (look to the upper right).

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*Warning: Clip contains foul language.*

Only nine years ago, Ron Livingston played the young, fax machine-stealing, disgruntled worker Peter Gibbons in Office Space. Whoever would’ve thought that less than a decade later, he’d head back to the office to be an aging businessman. Man, Hollywood is tough on age.

Variety reports the Livingston will lead an indie comedy called The Company Men, that Raul Sanchez will direct from his own screenplay. As the star, Ron gets to be “an aging businessman who struggles with a collapsing economy as he tries to save a sinking company.” I guess the over-the-hill moniker sticks (Livingston is 41). It’ll be interesting to see how this lives up to the cult favorite, and fan expectations. But really, the big question is: Will he use a red Swingline stapler?

Meanwhile, Livingston has a co-starring gig in The Time Traveler’s Wife, which hits screens on Christmas Day.

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These celebrities were born on August 29:

Michael Jackson is 50.
Joe Schumacher is 69.
Eliot GOuld is 70.
Meshell Ndegeocello is 40.
Carla Gugino is 37.
Robin Leach is 67.

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Dancing With the Stars is a show that makes no sense to me. I understand the appeal of it; I’m usually very interested in any program that involves celebrities doing ridiculous things on national television and I know that people love bright shiny costumes, but it still somehow manages to hold no interest for me whatsoever.

With that said, I know that the announcement of each season’s DWTS cast is heavily anticipated and rumored for months before the actual announcement. We heard that Dan Marino may be a contestant; a claim that was soon denied. 82-year-old Cloris Leachman was another name floated, as was Magnum, P.I. himself, Tom Selleck. Kim Kardashian and Kathy Griffin were also said to have been approached.

As with most rumors, some of these turned out to be false, but others had some truth to them. Follow me after the jump for the official (and completely insane) cast of Dancing With the Stars’ seventh season, along with some twists the producers have cooked up for this go-around.

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Oh thank God. Paris Hilton is going to England to try and find a new best friend for her reality television show Paris Hilton’s My New BFF. Now, rather than subject us to her vapid, debutante antics, she’ll be doing the same thing across the Atlantic where they’re more used to that sort of behavior.

You know, this is quite an honor for some lucky Brit. There is nobody more loyal, caring and understanding as a friend than Paris Hilton. Just ask Nicole Richie.

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