***The Hollywood Reporter’s Barry Garron offers a summary of the state of Paris Hiton’s post-jail career. “Paris Hilton told Larry King that she has two films lined up for the summer. It is absolutely inconceivable that she will perform in either of them any better than she did while dodging King’s mostly superficial questions on Wednesday night.”

***Ready for a boldfaced onslaught? Ryan Gosling will join Rachel Weisz in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. The casting, according to THR, is “a coup for Jackson and Dreamworks,” because Gosling takes only a fraction of the many roles he’s offered.

***Blockbuster and Netflix have settled their mutual lawsuits. Netflix had sued Blockbuster for stealing their rental-by-mail patent; the ailing brick-and-mortar giant had counter-sued, claiming Netflix was attempting to establish a monopoly over the paper-envelope market. All is well now…at least for Netflix, whose stock is worth roughly five times that of their blue-and-yellow rivals.