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While we all wait for Mad Men to return with its forth season (When will it be back?! Argh!), Mattel is trying to ease the anxiety by releasing Barbie Collector dolls this July. It's perfect! Now you can make up your own storylines in the meantime (because that's not weird at all).

Of the four characters immortalized in plastic, Joan Holloway definitely looks the most awesome. Roger Sterling and Don Draper have the suits right, but the faces are a little...off. And, like always, Betty's hair and dress are perfect.

The dolls will run you $74.95 each, so that's only $300 for the set. Totally reasonable.

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The Hurt Locker's chances at Oscar just got a little hurt. Of course, what more can you expect from a team of Inglourious Basterds?

Quentin Tarantino's band of brothers (plus the stunning Diane Kruger) scored the top film prize—Outstanding Performance by a Cast—at tonight's 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Of course, you didn't have to be a Basterd to win big tonight, but being a little Mad, a little Crazy, a little Gleeky or simply Blind might not hurt.

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NBC has gone from Must-See TV to Must-See-TV-for-Scathing-Monologues.

The Peacock Network opted to precede its do-or-die, $800 million coverage of the Winter Olympic Games with a swift and merciless changing of the guard over at the Tonight Show.

The only major difference we're expecting when Jay Leno returns? We're going to be hearing a lot more about David Letterman's sex life...

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The Hollywood Foreign Press was happy to open Pandora's box.

Avatar, James Cameron's years-in-the-making vision of the possibility of performance-capture technology, was named Best Motion Picture, Drama, at the 67th Annual Golden Globes, triumphing over the seemingly unstoppable Hurt Locker.

"We have the best job in the world, we really do," the filmmaker said in accepting Sunday's top prize. "I just want you to give it up for yourself. What we do is, we make entertainment for a global audience, and that's what the Golden Globes mean. Give it up for yourselves," he encouraged his fellow Hollywood players.

Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock, winners for Best Actor and Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama, were prepared to do just that.

"Please don't let Ricky Gervais be right. Do I need to thank whoever bought this for me?" began Bullock, long America's sweetheart but never a critics' darling before starring in The Blind Side, referencing one of the host's opening jokes. "Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press, after all these years."

Bridges, too, joked about his sudden ascendance to the upper echelons since playing a washed-up country singer in Crazy Heart.

"You're really throwing my underappreciated status here," he mock-complained, before thanking his late dad, Lloyd Bridges, and mom for encouraging their kids to go into show business.

And while critical favorite, Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow (aka the third Mrs. James Cameron), could still get the Oscar in the divorce, Cameron got the Globe.

"I'm absolutely not well-prepared," the filmmaker said after claiming his award from next-door neighbor Mel Gibson. "Frankly, I thought Kathryn was going to get this. She richly deserves it."

The on-again king of the world also thanked his performance-capture troop and visual production facility. "We're family, guys, whether you like it or not," he said.

Meanwhile, in another surprise The Hangover was named Best Musical/Comedy, beating a field that included Nine, which came in with a whopping five nominations but was completely shut out.

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The other day we spotted Mad Men's Jon Hamm wandering around Los Angeles with a big thick beard and we were cool with it. Actors do this sort of thing when they're not shooting their shows, that's fine—they have real lives, too (we guess).

But now the grizzly look is showing up on red carpets, like last night's screening of Before I Forget.

We're concerned about this face hair situation for a couple reasons. One, we miss his perfectly chiseled chin. And two, (and most important of all) the Golden Globes! They're this weekend and he's up for Best Actor for Mad Men. Would he dare show up to a fancy awards ceremony looking like Grizzly Adams (or is it Joaquin Phoenix)? Oh, the drama.

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Glee has given a lot of people something to smile about.

Including the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which included Fox's hit musical series among its nominees for the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which honors progressive portrayals of LGBT characters and treatment of relevant issues in TV, film, theater and journalism.

Joining Glee in the competition for Outstanding Comedy Series are United States of Tara, Greek, Logo's Beautiful People and fellow freshman entry Modern Family.

Dramas that made the grade included True Blood, Mad Men, Brothers and Sisters, BBC America's Skins and perennial nominee Grey's Anatomy.
Private Practice, Supernatural, Parks and Recreation and NBC's short-lived The Listener are vying in the individual episode category.

In the race for Outstanding Film, Wide Release, the sweet-natured grossout comedy I Love You, Man will square off against Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, Everybody's Fine, A Single Man and Taking Woodstock.

Cynthia Nixon will be presented with the Vito Russo Award, which honors openly gay media professionals for their efforts in promoting equal rights for the LGBT community.

For a complete list of nominees, go to GLAAD's website.

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The Hollywood Foreign Press digs Glee and True Blood, too. Check out which shows are squaring off against those choice series at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards.

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Who knew us pop-culture types would end up having to join the Golf Writers Association of America?

That's what it feels like, anyway, as the Tiger Woods saga continues to unfold amid all the other Hollywood happenings that don't take a special membership (or, according to some of our most critical commenters, schooling of any kind) to cover.

And there were some doozies this week, but first...

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