On Friday, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby dropped The TODAY Show to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.

Dan Aykroyd, Anna Faris, and Justin Timberlake will be voicing characters in a new Yogi Bear movie, Variety has learned.

JT is in talks to play the straight-talking bear, Boo Boo, in a new live-action and computer animated movie version of the animated classic The Yogi Bear Show.

Anna is in negotiations to play a documentary filmmaker who descends on Jellystone National Park in the film, while Dan is up for the role of Yogi.

Shooting is expected to start in New Zealand next month.

Mickey Mouse is getting a makeover….What is the meaning of this?

On Thursday, Disney unveiled plans to put a little more rogue in the world’s most beloved rodent. We guess that miss bye-bye Minnie and Pluto…After being left virtually untouched since his “Steamboat Willy” days, Mickey is ditching the suit and bow-tie for edgier duds in 2010. The company hopes the change will make The Mouse more marketable in modern day films and video games, according to a scoop featured in The New York Times. In fact, Disney is looking to alter the way Mickey lives in a bid to show the character’s “darker side.” Er — Mickey’s a cartoon, he’s not supposed to have a “darker side.”

Mickey will show off his new look in the video game Epic Mickey, debuting next fall.

MTV has released a sneak peek at “Fresh Out The Oven,” the new music video in which fab fortysomething Jennifer Lopez appears as her alter-ego — “Lola.” The uptempo track, which features Miami-based hip-hop star Pitbull, is the lead single off of Jenn’s forthcoming album, Love…..

Thoughts?

“I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they’re wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good,” actress Sarah Jessica Parker reveals in the December 2009 issue of Elle Magazine.

And she SJP gets to smell plenty of fully-loaded Huggies these days; the star is on double diaper duty these thanks to the arrival of twin daughters Loretta and Tabitha, who were delivered by a surrogate earlier this year.

In recent months, the star has been busy juggling motherhood with filming on the eagerly-anticipated Sex And The City sequel and awaiting the release of her new romantic comedy, Did You Hear About The Morgans?, opening in theaters Dec. 11.

Rue McClanahan — who played cougar Southern belle Blanche Deveroux on the beloved TV classic The Golden Girls – has been hospitalized for heart by surgery related to “acute cardiac illness.”

Yikes!

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Speaking of Big Bird, Google will using Sesame Street Doodles in celebration of the show’s 40th season until Nov. 10. Yesterday, we got a Big Bird logo but today its Cookie Monster’s turn!

Glenn Beck has been hospitalized with an attack of appendicitis.

The attack came right in the middle of Beck’s radio show on Wednesday afternoon. The controversial FOX News commentator began complaining on the air that he wasn’t feeling well and shortly after left his co-host, Pat Grey, to finish the program. He was taken by car to an unnamed Manhattan hospital where he underwent an emergency appendectomy.

Christopher Balfe, the president of Mercury Radio where Glenn’s program airs, joked that “before going under, Glenn asked the doctor to draw out the surgery procedure on a blackboard.”

He is expected to return to work next week.

With her legthy locks slicked into a perfect pompadour, vegan extraordinaire Natalie Portman adopts an androgynous look for the cover of V Magazine’s December issue. Mario Testino snapped the Oscar-nominated star, now 28, in London last month, where she spoke to the magazine about her first-ever sex scene in the upcoming war drama, Brothers, where she plays the wife of a marine, played by Tobey Maguire.

“….Being a sexual object when you’re a kid is really uncomfortable. After [debuting in 1994’s] ‘The Professional,’ I was already getting creepy letters.”

Don’t worry, Jeremy Piven’s love of soy milk hasn’t left the Entourage actor with unslightly “moobs.”

The actor, best known for his role as Ari Gold on the HBO series, caused a stir on the Interwebs this week after he claimed he stopped drinking soy milk because its high estrogen levels caused him to grow man boobs.
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