Actor David Carradine Dead At 72

David Carradine, the star of "Kill Bill" and the man behind the legendary 1970s TV series "Kung Fu," has died at age 72.

Carradine was reportedly found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand, either late Wednesday or early Thursday morning. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death to The Associated Press but would provide no further details out of respect for Carradine's family.

Citing unidentified police sources, the Thai English-language newspaper The Nation has reported that Carradine was found hanged in a luxury hotel room and died as a result of suicide, though other sources say he died of natural causes.

Carradine was staying in Bangkok while filming a movie, according to Fox News. The film's crew noticed his absence when they went out to a restaurant. A producer went to Carradine's room and discovered the actor had died.

Carradine appeared in the late '60s Western series "Shane" and went on to portray Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in "Kung Fu" from 1972 to 1975, a role he reprised in a TV-movie and a '90s TV series. Carradine appeared in over 100 feature films, but perhaps his most well-known recent movie was as Bill in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films. MTV News spoke with Carradine in February, and the actor talked hopefully about returning to work with Tarantino on another "Bill" installment.

"[Tarantino] planned an anime version of the life of Bill before the movie — which would have to be anime because I'm not getting any younger," Carradine said.

'Twilight' Stars Talk About Robert Pattinson's Reaction To Fame

UNIVERSAL CITY, California — A year ago at this time, a small independent film was shooting in Portland. It starred the little kid from "Panic Room," the jerk from "Can't Hardly Wait," the best friend from "Thirteen" and the fast-talking girl from "Rocket Science." It also featured a little-known actor, best remembered for playing Cedric Diggory in the "Harry Potter" films.

Now, "Twilight" is a worldwide phenomenon and actors like Kristen Stewart, Peter Facinelli, Nikki Reed and Anna Kendrick are all celebrating their recent big night at the MTV Movie Awards. But it's hard to imagine any actor, ever, whose life has changed as dramatically in 12 months as Robert Pattinson's.

When we spoke with them on the red carpet over the weekend, his "Twilight" saga co-stars told us that they're as amazed by the transformation as they are impressed with how RPattz has handled it all.

"Rob cannot be in public and be static for more than five seconds without being mobbed," marveled Mike Welch, who plays Mike Newton. "If he's in a room and he looks down and he looks back up, [in that instant] everyone in the room will be staring at him. It's kind of ridiculous. [That level of fame] is literally Rob Pattinson and Barack Obama."

"It's so funny but it's true," agreed Christian Serratos, who plays Angela. "There's a love for Rob, which is completely understandable. But despite all that, he's still completely relaxed and completely laid-back. I don't know how it's possible, but he's really just chill."

As the days got closer to the release of "Twilight," there were signs that Pattinson's power over fans was reaching a Beatles-esque level. But when the "Twilight" cast recently went overseas for work on the sequel "New Moon," they saw that the insanity has become even wilder.

"Italy was intense," Ashley Greene marveled. "We literally all had two bodyguards and drivers, and we couldn't walk and had to be driven around the set. It was because there were thousands of girls that came in from everywhere in the world to see [Pattinson]. ... They would sleep over and stay the night outside our hotel gate. It was nuts."

"Every second of Rob's life is watched now," Kellan Lutz added, saying that Rob has had to adjust some habits to handle the increased scrutiny. "I'm sure he's careful for everything he's doing."

"I've talked to Rob about it, and he's just paranoid all the time now," Peter Facinelli revealed, admitting that the newfound fame does sometimes become difficult for his onscreen son. "Like, even to go down to the Starbucks, he's ducking behind cars and does a roll-flip to the coffee shop. Then he gets up, and there's nobody there — but then the one time that he doesn't do that, that's when there's like 10,000 paparazzi jumping out of the bushes."

"It's hard," agreed his onscreen wife, Elizabeth Reaser.

But still, despite a level of attention that has driven other celebrities (Britney, Lindsay, etc.) down some crazy paths in recent years, Rob's "Twilight" stars insist that he hasn't changed a bit.

"Rob cracks me up every time I hang out with him," Lutz said. "He's just such a great, easygoing guy."

"[His fame] is always growing," Cam Gigandet added. "But Rob is still Rob — which is a good thing."

"He's the same guy that I met before he was world-famous, which is just a really laid-back, quirky, funny British dude," Welch grinned. "[But his notoriety] is crazy. I don't know how he does it. I'm glad I'm Mike, dude."

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'The Hangover': About Last Night, By Kurt Loder

The phrase "bachelor party in Vegas" suggests a specific sort of movie — a raunchfest filled with booze, babes and fratboy delirium.

"The Hangover" is a more interesting and much funnier film. The four friends it follows from their native Los Angeles to the desert casino kingdom are in their early thirties, so they're well-defined personalities. Doug (Justin Bartha), the groom-to-be, is an amiable straight arrow, and his two best friends are likewise nice guys: Phil (Bradley Cooper) is a teacher who loves his wife and kid, and Stu (Ed Helms) is an excitable dentist with a girlfriend, alas, from hell. The only wild card is burly, bearded Alan (Zach Galifianakis), Doug's soon-to-be brother-in-law. Alan appears possibly to have been hit in the head with a shovel earlier in life. He says things like, "I'm not supposed to be within 20 feet of a school." He's worrisome.

Their bachelor wingding is of course a disaster, but the movie, in a very clever move, doesn't show it to us. We see only the aftermath, with daylight flooding their $4000-a-night Caesar's Palace suite (which Stu has unwisely put on his credit card) to reveal a scene of extreme post-party ruination. There's a smoldering chair, a beautiful girl in a bath towel and an inexplicable chicken. There's also a tiger. And Stu has lost a front tooth, and somebody has left a baby in one of the closets. Most troubling, though, is Doug, who's missing. Where to look for him? Since Phil has blearily discovered an ID tag on his wrist from a local hospital, maybe start there. Bring the baby.

The story of the previous night's debauch is thus told in reverse, and very inventively. The hospital visit leads the boys to a Vegas wedding chapel, where one of them discovers that he apparently got married the night before. (The chapel owner graciously agrees to file an annulment, but he'll need the bride to sign off on it, and she — whoever she is — is nowhere in evidence.) Then there's a police bust, a painful Taser demonstration, a daffy Mike Tyson interlude and an angry naked Asian hoodlum named Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong of "Knocked Up," in a rare fit of overacting) demanding the return of $80,000 if they want to see Doug alive again. The guys have no idea what he's talking about, but they hear the high-stakes card tables calling.

The intricate plot choreography has a giddy rush, and the actors are just right for their roles. Bartha's missing Doug doesn't get much screen time, of course (nor does Heath er Graham, who does a sweet turn as a stripper-slash-escort). But Helms is a winsome fidget (with true love lurking in his very near future) and Cooper brings a necessary sexy presence to a character who's circumscribed by a solid domestic commitment. Galifianakis operates in some strange ozone all his own (is it true you can't get "beep sig" in Caesar's Palace?), but in the end he saves the day anyway, sort of. The movie was directed by Todd Phillips ("Old School"), and while its boisterous fun has strong libidinous overtones, it never takes the plunge into full, frothing raunch. We've been there, though. Being here is a nice change.

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'Land Of The Lost': Into The Mild, By Kurt Loder

Many a '70s kid thrilled to the cheesy TV series "Land of the Lost," and some of them, it appears, grew up to run movie studios. That might explain why this decrepit property has now been turned into a movie. It doesn't excuse it, though. The picture is a CGI adventure comedy with a mild line in PG-13 laughs, a surprising lack of fresh adventure (did the filmmakers chop up an early print of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and smoke it?), and very little in the way of digital dinosaurs and whatnot that haven't been paraded past us many times before. It's worth noting that two of the movie's funniest scenes — one involving a giant mosquito and the other a confrontation with Matt Lauer on the "Today" show — can be seen for free in the trailer. Just a suggestion.

The plot is a thing of standard-issue silliness. Will Ferrell, in his familiar arrogant-dork mode, is Dr. Rick Marshall, an expert in "quantum paleontology" and inventor of a "tachyon amplifier" that allows its operator to travel "sideways in time." Rick is an idiot, of course, but he does have one champion — a pretty young English scientist named Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel), who pops up out of nowhere with the news that she has proved Rick's tachyon theory to be true. Before you can say "weak plot device," she and Rick are off to the desert in search of a time portal to a parallel dimension. I'm pretty sure that's what's going on. Anyway, they find said portal at a dilapidated roadside tourist trap run by a down-at-heels wisecracker named Will Stanton (Danny McBride). Boating through a sort of haunted-cave ride, all three of them suddenly go barreling over a waterfall and down into the Land of Computer Generation, where rampaging behemoths, swooping pterodactyls and bubble-eyed lizard men conspire to justify the movie's rather large budget.

Rick and company soon acquire a fourth companion, a hairy young Neanderthal named Cha-Ka (Jorma Taccone), the movie's most amusing character. Cha-Ka doesn't speak English, of course; but Holly, being a scientist and all, understands his native gibberish, and even his penchant for good-natured bosom-fondling. (Bosom-ownership may have been the chief qualification in casting Friel's largely decorative character. Too bad the only bosoms actually bared here belong, inevitably, to Ferrell himself.) Before long the group encounters an alien scientist called Enik (John Boylan), who warns them about the Zarn — an evil entity who's plotting to conquer the Earth with his lizard warriors and can only be stopped by Rick's tachyon thing. Need we go on?

There are some good bits. A gag about Mesozoic walnuts is a little strained in its set-up, but Ferrell's panicky dance through a pit full of hatching pterodactyl eggs is a cute nod to the "Alien" movies, and the conversion of a giant crustacean into instant hors d'oeuvres is pretty inspired. Some key scenes are limply shaped, though: When Ferrell wanders into the group's jungle camp playing a banjo, it's distractingly pointless — why's he playing a banjo? (And why, since he's not really playing it, is he playing it left-handed? Camera logistics shouldn't draw so much attention.)

It's a little dismaying to hear a man as funny as Will Ferrell give forth with witless exclamations like "Captain Kirk's nipples!" But Ferrell seems to be expending a lot of his career in this sort of schlockbuster trash. What's more distressing is watching Danny McBride, an actor with a fierce comic edge, biding his time through this lackluster film. True, he does get the movie's funniest line: Coming upon a primitive jungle temple built around what looks like a towering Lucite obelisk, McBride cocks a brow and says, "Maybe this is where our ancient ancestors hosted the Latin Grammys." It's downhill from there, though.

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Eminem Fans Divided Over His Comments On Brüno Incident

Hard as it may be for some to believe that Eminem was in on his incident with Brьno at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night, the MC's comments on the stunt have certainly gotten fans talking.

After Eminem said he was "thrilled that we pulled this off better than we rehearsed it," the response was sharply divided over whether the bit was a hilarious display of good humor by Slim Shady or a bad look for a rapper.

Many of the comments applauded Eminem and Brьno for pulling off the stunt so well. MTViewer89 labeled it "one of the best pranks of all time had so many people fooled including me. People were getting so emotional about it. Hell yeah, Shady, best prank ever."

Shorty333 chalked it all up to Marshall Mathers' marketing genius. "He can take a joke better than most entertainers ... and laugh all the way to the bank! Shock value sells. Not only is he a truly talented artist ... but he is a stable cultural icon and I give him an immense amount of credit for all he has accomplished!!! Congrats!" And asid12345678 wrote, "lol ... this guy shud get an MTV award ... classic acting!"

Hislady4lyfe said haters were focusing on all the wrong things. "Props to MTV, Eminem and Sacha Baron Cohen for this absolutely hilarious display of pure acting talent!" Lyfe wrote. "This was fantastic. Whether it's 'gay' or not for Eminem to have agreed to this stunt really isn't the issue here ... Honestly, there were nominees in the Best Kiss category for male/male saliva swapping ... who cares that Em let Borat do this? It's pretty f----n funny if ya ask me."

However, others were more skeptical. "I'm not buying it," wrote HotMilk. "Eminem is trying to save his 'tough guy' image." Jlupi agreed, writing that "the incident was worse if it was staged."

Itaintme simply didn't believe the whole story. "Watch the clip again. I'm sorry I really don't think EM knew about this," Aintme wrote. "He looks pissed off. And I don't think he would have gone back to the hotel and laugh about it, why didn't he laugh then and stay at the show?"

Jonah Hill's '21 Jump Street' Will Not Be A Spoof

Jonah Hill thinks the "21 Jump Street" movie he's writing and producing is going to be something special, but he's worried that he might be alone in that opinion so far.

"Apparently, the Internet thinks it's the worst idea ever!" Hill said of his big-screen adaptation of the '80s TV show that starred Johnny Depp. So, when MTV News caught up with him at the MTV Movie Awards, the "Superbad" star took the time to set the record straight and share some new details about his fresh take on the original.

"I just did this article in Complex, and I don't think they really captured what I was trying to say," Hill said. "They put in there that I thought the show was hilarious, and I was giving an example from the first episode where he's playing saxophone. There's stuff that's pretty cartoony in there. It's an '80s show!"

But that does not mean he'll be spoofing the beloved show that launched Depp's career and a thousand Tiger Beat covers. No, Hill promised his version will be "a hard-core, R-rated movie."

So if the movie is not a parody, how would Hill describe his concept so that maybe the Internet can ratchet down the hatred a bit? "I want to phrase it exactly how I mean it: It's a comedy that is also an action movie," he explained.

Both the comedy and the action will rise from the fish-out-of-water scenario of police officers returning to high school to pose as students and conduct undercover investigative work. "What happens is they get caught up in the high school-ness as opposed to the police work," said Hill. "And whenever they get too caught up in the high school drama, police work comes in. And whenever they get too caught up in the police work, high school drama comes in."

Hill is also hoping to handle the source material with enough reverence and originality that Depp himself will join in the action. "We wrote a really awesome Johnny Depp cameo," Hill said. "I talked to his agent a few times. I've never met the man. He probably won't do it, but if he does, it will be one I think he'd be proud of, and it's a real crowd pleaser. It's not cheesy."

Whether or not Depp's planned part would have him reprising the original role of Officer Tom Hanson, Hill wouldn't reveal. But he did drop one hint about the dearly loved intro from the TV show.

"The theme song is in the film!" he said.

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Sacha Baron Cohen Sued For Alleged Brüno Brawl

Some people get a chuckle when, say, Austrian fashion correspondent Brьno floats down from the rafters and greets someone with his undercarriage. But, according to TMZ, a California woman is suing Brьno creator Sacha Baron Cohen over a 2007 incident at a Palmdale, California, bingo hall that she claims left her in a wheelchair.

Richelle Olson, the executive director of Desert Valley Charities, is suing Cohen, NBC Universal and several others over the incident, which occurred when Brьno was scheduled to call numbers at a bingo game for the elderly that she organized. But when the flamboyant Brьno — whom she describes in the suit as an "extreme, outrageous, offensive caricature of a gay man dressed in sexually revealing clothing with an Austrian accent" — showed up, Olson alleges that the character used "vulgar and offensive language."

When she tried to take the microphone away from Brьno, she claims a "physical struggle ensued" and Brьno "offensively touched, pushed and battered" her, causing her to fall to the ground. Then, when three cameramen and others rushed the stage, Olson claims that they "attacked [her] for a period of one to five minutes to intentionally create a dramatic emotional response ... while [they] recorded her humiliation and embarrassment."

Following the alleged assault, the suit claims Olson went into an adjoining room, where she was "sobbing uncontrollably" before becoming unconscious and "falling forward onto the thinly covered concrete slab, passing out and causing her to hit her head." She was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with "two brain bleeds" according to the suit and has been confined to a wheelchair and walker ever since. Olson and her husband are suing for unspecified damages, including loss of marital relations.

This is the latest in a long line of lawsuits launched at Cohen over the outrageous antics of his various characters, including Borat. A spokesperson for Cohen could not be reached for comment at press time.

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