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Steven Soderbergh May Get Bradley Cooper to Say 'U.N.C.L.E.'
By Christopher Rosen
Posted Oct 20th 2011 10:30PM

If you're an A-list actor who wasn't considered to replace George Clooney in 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' then you may not actually be on the A-list. From Johnny Depp to Matt Damon to Ryan Gosling to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Warner Bros. discussed the lead role of Napoleon Solo in the Steven Soderbergh-directed reboot of the '60s television series with a reported 20-plus names. That game of Hollywood roulette has apparently landed on a possibility: Bradley Cooper.

Variety reports that Cooper has been offered the leading role, and he'll likely accept "considering how hard his team at CAA worked to position him for the coveted part." This would be the fourth high-profile role Cooper has landed in recent months. He's currently starring as Lucifer in 'Paradise Lost' for director Alex Proyas, as well as 'The Silver Linings Playbook' for director David O. Russell and 'The Place Beyond the Pines' with Ryan Gosling. With a schedule of heavy hitters like that, his decision to leave the ill-advised remake of 'The Crow' looks better and better.

Soderbergh is hoping to shoot the movie next spring, after his work on the HBO film 'Behind the Candelabra' with Michael Douglas set to star as Liberace.

Bradley Cooper named PEOPLE' s Sexiest Man Alive
By Kurt Schlosser

Bradley Cooper, the hunky "Hangover" star with the piercing blue eyes, is PEOPLE magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2011.

Cooper, 36, heads a list of 123 "super hot guys" that includes actors Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Robert Pattinson and Justin Timberlake to name a few.

"I think it's really cool that a guy who doesn't look like a model can have this [title]," Cooper told the mag. "I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying."

PEOPLE says the actor -- who has also starred in "Limitless" and "The A-Team" -- is especially close with his mom. "My mother is going to be so happy," Cooper says of his first thought upon learning he had been crowned Sexiest. He also thought he was being "Punk'd."

Cooper dated actress Renée Zellweger for two years until their split in March and has been linked to Jennifer Lopez in recent months, but says he's just a "single 36-year-old male." He takes the title from 2010 winner Ryan Reynolds.

Scoop's Courtney Hazlett wrote here in June that the revelation that Cooper was fluent in French made him even more attractive.

We've assembled a few video highlights below for those looking for more of a Cooper fix.

So what do you think? Did PEOPLE make the right choice? Share your thoughts in the comments if you agree ... or feel someone was robbed!

Hawaii Five-0 – Greg Grunberg does a show good

by Brittany Frederick

Hawaii Five-0 Season 2, Episode 8 - "Lapa'au"

'Hawaii Five-0' has had its rough patch this season. The arrival of the 'Heroes' costar wasn't the only reason this week's episode worked, but he was definitely a huge part of its success.

I'm not going to give Greg Grunberg all the credit for this week's Hawaii Five-0 being a great episode, but I'm going to give him a gold star for livening up the joint, certainly.

In "Lapa'au," Grunberg played Jeff Morrison, the supervisor of a murdered ICE agent who tagged along with Five-0 on the investigation into her death. I'm not sure how legal that was, but I let it slide because c'mon, it's Greg Grunberg! His Eric Weiss was the most underrated character on Alias! It would have been a waste for him to play the typical "boss of the victim who gets two scenes and is never heard from again." Thankfully, the writers made good use of him, even including a hilarious scene where Max, played by his Heroes costar Masi Oka, insisted that Jeff looked familiar.

As writers, we're told not to build episodes around a particular guest star, but it certainly helps our material when a good one comes on board. Hopefully Grunberg will be one of the ones that Five-0 finds a reason to bring back.

"Lapa'au" wasn't just a good episode because of him, though. It was an episode that didn't hit the sore notes that season two has struck all too often. The premise seemed farfetched at first – a plane with a corpse in it sounded like it might have been a better fit for last week's Halloween episode – but it ended up being relatively easy to follow. Lori seemed to stick out less this week, and it was nice to see her clueless about something for once.

And though Grunberg was a great guest star, his being there did not take over the entire show. No offense to Terry O'Quinn or any of the other guests from season two to date, but the sophomore run has been a little guest star-heavy, so it was pleasant that we didn't get too much of a good thing.

The episode also contained more of what made me enjoy Hawaii Five-0 in season one. Steve and Danny's banter was back, but it felt more natural and less like it was being inserted for the sake of being there. We also got to see Kono return to the field after spending last week in the office, and that granted us the kick-ass Grace Park we all know and love.

It wasn't perfect — Jeff's line to Lori that the deceased reminded him of her felt like another one of those instances where the writers are trying to make us like Lori by having someone else like her. Not to mention that it seemed to come out of nowhere.

I also feel like our heroes should have been able to finger the killer a lot earlier, if only they'd looked into his background a little deeper when they talked to him the first time. Then again, if they had, we would have had a very short episode, so I understand the reasoning. I just would have been more on board if the reveal hadn't been something so simple to figure out.

But those are small issues in the big picture. "Lapa'au" was a fun and more importantly, properly executed episode, and I hope that it's the start of a trend, because this show really should be one of the best on television.