Fast Track: Mike Huckabee vs. Natalie Portman!

L.A. Times Archives

March 4, 2011 12 AM PT

Mike Huckabee has decided to take on Natalie Portman’s unborn baby, which would make Portman the new Murphy Brown and Huckabee the new Dan Quayle. (Media Matters)

Who would have thought that the season’s sweetest reality-show concept would come from Mike Tyson? (Los Angeles Times)

Here are your top 12 (or 13) “American Idol” contestants for the season. (Los Angeles Times)

So now Christina Aguilera is a tabloid mess and Britney Spears is a hit-single machine. What a seesaw world pop music is. (Los Angeles Times)

If “Rango” is a box-office hit, Paramount could find itself competing with DreamWorks Animation, instead of distributing it. (Los Angeles Times)

Get ready for a whole lot of 3-D movies between now and Thanksgiving. (Los Angeles Times)

Mike Myers has secretly married his longtime girlfriend. (PopEater)

After many delays and much fan fretting, the fifth book in George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series (a.k.a. the “Game of Thrones” series) will be released July 12. (Entertainment Weekly)

Charlie Sheen is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. We know the word we’re supposed to say here, but we’re not going to say it. (Mashable)

Not content with the Guinness book, Sheen is working on his own book, titled “Apocalypse Me.” (Hollywood Reporter)

Warner Bros. will open the Harry Potter walking tour in England next spring. (Deadline)

Courtney Love’s foulmouthed Twitter rant has cost her $430,000. (Hollywood Reporter)

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