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In the Land of the Blind, Ricky Gervais Is King

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“I love the fact that most TV’s rubbish, it makes me look better.” Ricky Gervais [Guardian]

“She stared at me all night and I was going to get her number and then I couldn’t find her. I must have walked around that party for an hour trying to look for this girl, like some sad pathetic dweeb, but it would have been worth it.” Daniel Radcliffe [Reuters]

“There’s some stuff on there that sounds like something the Beatles might’ve done. There’s some stuff on there that sounds like something Billy Joel might’ve done. I can’t do just straight urban music no more, because to be completely honest with you, I’m a little bored with it.” Ne-Yo on his new album, Year of the Gentleman [Billboard via Reuters]

“He’s a weakling. I must have played a weakling somewhere, but I don’t know where.” Morgan Freeman on playing against type in his return to Broadway in The Country Girl [NYT]

“We came up with White Castle because it has a history of being a place where intoxicated people go at the end of the night. But then we did see it as a sort of metaphor. It’s about the burgers, but it’s more than just the burgers.” Jon Hurwitz, co-writer of the Harold and Kumar movies [NYT]

“Ladies, don’t show your knockers to Joe Francis. Get your own camera, film your own knockers and get the money.” Tina Fey sends a message to the young women of America [LAT]

In the Land of the Blind, Ricky Gervais Is King