Hilary Duff promotes her new politically charged movie, War, Inc., in the latest of Los Angeles Confidential.

In the John Cusack-directed film, The Duffster plays potty-mouthed Eastern European pop star Yonica Babiak. Here’s what Hil had to say to the mag:

Your character speaks in a ridiculous dialect. Where did that come from? The first time I talked to John, he said, “You know, you have to have an accent.” The character is an Eastern European pop star. I didn’t even know where to begin. But the fun thing is, this place doesn’t even exist. Turaqistan is not a real country. So I played around and mixed a lot of things together! I talked in that accent as much as I could, even to my family and friends!

Did you really drop a live scorpion down your pants in the movie? I really did. It was so scary. I grew up in Texas, and we had plenty of scorpions, but I never had to put one down my pants before. And my pants weren’t that baggy, so I couldn’t get any space. I did it a couple times with it going down my leg and it was terrifying. The little thing kept doing backbends because it obviously didn’t want to go in my pants, you know? Everyone on the set was cheering!

Read the full interviews at LA-Confidential-Magazine.com.

War Inc. opens in limited released on Friday, May 23.

25-year-old Korean pop star Rain shows up at the studio for an after hours dance-off with Stephen Colbert, the 43-year-old host of The Colbert Report.

The pair have been competing top spot on the Time 100 list, which determines the world’s most influential person.

Watch the video below to catch both Rain and Colbert in action!

You can check out Rain in the live action film Speed Racer, out in theaters today.

When it rains it pours…

Lauren Conrad carried her luggage into her home in Hollywood on Friday after returning from short trip to New York for MTV’s Upfronts.

The 22-year-old Hills star is helping her roommate, Audrina Patridge, celebrate her 23rd birthday tonight.

The finale for the current season of The Hills airs this Monday, May 12. The new season will premiere in August with 19 new episodes.

Justin Timberlake announced at yesterday’s MTV Upfronts that he’s going to produce a new reality show for MTV called The Phone.

The Phone is based on a Dutch TV show, which pits contestants in a race against time and each other to accomplish a mission and win a cash prize.

Here’s a synopsis via Access Hollywood: Each episode will begin with two strategically placed cell phones ringing at opposite ends of a major metropolitan city. Once answered, a mysterious guide gives contestants five seconds to decide if they want to play the game.

If they accept, the competition begins, throwing the two contestants into an intense race, where they must communicate via cell phone to succeed.

The guide will also be communicating with the game players via cell phone, as a helicopter in the sky tracks their every move, exploit and error – with each failed task chipping away at the cash prize.

DO YOU THINK you’ll tune into “The Phone” this fall?

Scruffy Colin Farrell looks a little worse for wear as he leaves his hotel for a an early morning shoot for the upcoming film Triag‘ in Alicante, Spain on Friday.

In the film, the 31-year-old Irish actor plays Mark, a war photojournalist dealing with the memories of his time in Kurdistan. Spanish actress Paz Vega plays his girlfriend, Elena, who sets out to discover why Mark came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

That’s a prosthetic belly Colin is sporting, right? Right? More Here! »

Nicole Richie, aka Paris Hilton’s BFF and future sister-in-law, goes for a Friday morning coffee run at her local Starbucks in Glendale, Calif.

The 26-year-old new mom was accompanied by fiance Joel Madden and daughter Harlow, who turns four months on Sunday.

Nicole and baby Harlow are featured in the June 2008 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

When explaining her experience with motherhood thus far, Nicole said, “I would say how fun it is. Everybody talks about how difficult it is in the first three months, but I absolutely love it. Everything I do is for her. My whole life revolves around her and I absolutely love it.”

• Liv Tyler is unattached
• Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz believe in black
• Heidi Klum is a beach bum
• Jessica Simpson loves weddings
• Eliza Dushku sees in black and white
• Britney Spears vs. Whitney Hoston
• Ashton Kutcher is the sexiest
• Halle Berry likes cats
• Out of the way. Lindsay Lohan coming through.
• Need sofft shoes?
• Amy Winehouse needs a bandaid
• Johnny Knoxville gets fruitcake’d
• Nicole Richie gives back
• Jessica Szhor is on Target
• Dan Marino still doesn’t have a Super Bowl ring
• Lindsay Lohan was spotted with The Hills’ Lauren Conrad at the Crown Lounge in L.A. doing shots of tequila.
• Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and their daughter Suri turned up at the Broadway musical Hairspray last Friday. Cruise sent flowers to the cast and a basket of candy from Dylan’s Candy Bar.
• Newlyweds Eli Manning and Abby McGrew were spotted taking a ride on Disneyland’s Astro Orbitor this week. So he DID go to Disneyland after winning the Super Bowl!

Gwyneth Paltrow continues to shoot a campaign for Tod’s in Rome’s Piazza Campo de Fiori in Italy on Friday.

The commercial is being directed by actor Dennis Hopper.

Earlier today we caught another segment of the campaign as Gwynie was wearing an asymmetric white dress walking the red carpet with horse and carriage waiting for her.

If you haven’t seen Gwyn, 35, in Iron Man yet, do yourself a favor and go see it!

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