When we last checked in on obnoxious famous person Gwyneth Paltrow, she was testing out jokes for her future stand-up comedy routine on Twitter.

Warner is reportedly happy with Steve Kloves' (who wrote seven of the Harry Potter scripts) rewrite of the Akira script and have sent it out to their top choices to play Tetsuo and Kaneda.

Now that Joaquin Phoenix is done with his bearded rapping ruse for the faux docu-turd I'm Still Here, he returned to Letterman for the first time since Awkwardgate (watch that interview here).

Joaquin Phoenix, awesome actor and not-quite-as-awesome rapper, starred as Billy Hercules in an episode of Superboy in 1989 (clip below, via Unreality).

Joaquin Phoenix took his Andy Kaufmanesque "acting and grooming bore me" character to Letterman last night, and poor Dave had to deal with terse, one-word answers and general dickishness throughout the painfully awkward interview.