It seems every year we are told that Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, which airs on HBO, is in its final season. Fortunately, neither Larry nor HBO have had the balls to actually cancel the show and it appears they are wavering once again, as Mr. David told a crowd at the William Paley Festival over the weekend there “..is a pretty good chance” HBO will renew the series. What might a new season of Curb bring? For starters, Larry David’s character drives a Prius, so Larry is considering working that into the storyline. Sucks to be Toyota.

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With the Oscars fast approaching, word has been leaking about what viewers can’t expect from the ceremony. One story that came out this week was the Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as Bruno/Borat/Ali G, would be a presenter. This meant we could expect some weird and wonderful to happen, as Mr. Cohen is known for going off-script and ratcheting up the embarrassment level for his victim.

Further details emerged that Sacha Cohen would be dressed as a female Na’Vi from the movie Avatar, his words interpreted by co-presenter Ben Stiller. At some point, it was to be revealed that Sacha’s Na’Vi character is pregnant with James Cameron’s love child. It’s at the mention of James Cameron, a man notorious for not having a sense of humor about himself, that this bit has completely fallen apart, according to New York Magazine.

Mechanic, now both a producer of motion pictures and of this year’s Oscar telecast, was head of Twentieth Century Fox when Cameron’s Titanic famously went massively over budget and over schedule, so he’s well acquainted with Cameron’s sense of humor — or lack of it. “Let’s just say that Cameron isn’t known to be, shall we say, ‘self-deprecating,’” explained one insider familiar with the decision to cut the sketch.

Academy spokesperson Toni Thompson would only confirm that Baron Cohen was no longer presenting, but Baron Cohen’s spokesman, Matt Labov, tells Vulture that “I hate to use the term, because it’s so ubiquitous, but there were ‘creative differences.’ Nothing acrimonious, but both sides felt that since they couldn’t agree, [Cohen] might as well remain in London.” (Calls to Mechanic’s office were not returned at deadline.)

So in case you’re ranking celebrity senses of humor at home, you can now safely put Cameron below Eminem.

A lock of Napoleon Bonaparte’s hair has been discovered in Sydney, Australia, where it had been buried in a town hall vault for several decades, affixed to a letter that identifies the hair as belonging to the legendary Emperor of France. Offering locks of hair was considered a great gift in days of yore, though this particular tuft is believed to have come from Napoleon’s death-bed on the island of St. Helena, where he lived out his final days in exile.

What makes this discovery so potentially intriguing is that it has long been believed by many scholars and historians that Napoleon was assassinated in exile by dosages of arsenic. This latest tuft of hair should be facing DNA analysis at some point, the results of which should indicate an arsenic level.

More information on the assassination of Napoleon can be found here.

In the letter, a Scotsman named Ned Todd explains that he was given the hair by a woman whose brother, a Major William Crockat, had been present at Napoleon’s death.

“If I mistake not she said that her brother (Major Crockat) had himself cut the lock from the head of the illustrious dead,” he wrote.

Miss Betteridge said it was known that Napoleon’s hair was cut after his death and that Crockat appeared in a painting depicting the death scene.

Two years of renovations to improve the Town Hall have uncovered scores of strange objects stored in underground vaults.

The most valuable piece is likely to be a large Sevres vase, a gift from France following Sydney’s hosting of an international exhibition in 1879.

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Let’s see if I have this right: Kevin Smith is too fat to fly…and he lacks the talent to make a good movie. That doesn’t leave him with many options, given the current unemployment rate. The reviews for Kevin Smith’s latest cinematic turd are in and would you believe Jersey Girl, considered to be the worst Smith film, is considerably better than Cop-Out, at least according to Rotten Tomatoes?

Jersey Girl manages to rate an underwhelming 41%, but Cop-Out, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, explores the depths of hell by generating a whopping 17%.

Here are some choice words:

*A pointless homage to the cheesy buddy-cop action comedies of the 1980s, employing all the familiar tropes but failing to do anything with them.

*It’s like Beverly Hills Cop meets Die Hard, except we liked those movies.

*Smith needs to stop putting his creative energy into funny tweets and go back to writing scripts with heart and humor and memorable characters.

*This pitiful excuse for entertainment is utterly bereft of wit, intelligence or craft on any level. The only thing left to screw up would have been to leave the lens cap on the camera. Wait, that would have been an improvement.

*Cop Out is unspeakably terrible, a laugh-free comedy that mistakenly thinks it’s the height of hilarity while the audience, in return, sit stone-faced for the better part of two hours.

Please retire and go make YouTube videos or something.

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