Russian Anchor Tatiana Limanova Shows Middle Finger On Air (Video)

Russia’s REN TV news anchor Tatiana Limanova was reading a report about APEC Leaders Summit in Honolulu when she decided to give someone a middle finger. The question is: was she flipping off Barack Obama, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev or the viewers? 

He tried to escape from tow truck video

A drunk man (1.6 promils of alcohol) tried to flee tow truck in Belgrade, Serbia. Eventually he got arrested.

Lindsay Lohan In Playboy: Could She and Hugh Hefner Be A Couple Next?

While Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to be Playboy's January cover girl, another playmate tells me that Hugh Hefner's charm may be too much for even Lohan to resist. The magazine's 55th anniversary Playmate, Dasha Astafieva, explained what it's like working with the legendary Hefner and why so many of the ladies that appear in his magazine end up dating him.

"I think he is the best gentleman in the world," Dasha told me about Hugh. "Because, so many times, I have been preparing and dreaming for this meeting. And he just came and said 'hi.' I was in shock. He promised me; I come from Ukraine and it is so far from USA and he said that it would be a very interesting trip for me. And he said it would be the best trip of my life. Yes, he was right."

Dasha confessed that after meeting the world's most famous playboy in person, she would date him -- he made her feel like no one else ever has.

"All people think we have a romance. I think yes, it's love, but first it's an understanding. He helps me be a real woman. If you stay with a real man, you have to be a real woman," explains Dasha. "I think now it's my best date. But I hope I have another one again. For me, it's the biggest happiness in my life."

You have been warned Lindsay -- you might be losing your heart along with your clothes.

Britney Spears' "Criminal" Music Video: Watch Now!

Britney Spears’ controversial “Criminal” music video, which features the singer robbing a store with boyfriend Jason Trawick, has just been released!

The 29-year-old, who just passed 10 million Twitter fans, wrote:

“Ladies & gents, I’m excited to present to you the music video for Criminal, one of my favorite songs off of Femme Fatale. Enjoy!”

We particularly enjoyed the shots of Brit in the shower. Yowza.

“Criminal” was shot in London and directed by Chris Marrs Piliero, who also did Britney's “I Wanna Go” video. She's been criticized for the violence depicted in the “Criminal” video, which you can watch and share your comments on right here:

Britney Spears - Criminal (Official Video)

Rihanna Nude

Beyond the obvious vocal talent and preternatural understanding, at such a young age, of how to market herself, Rihanna, it must be said, is known for being sexy. And she knows it.

The Barbados-born star, named Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive on Tuesday, has spent the past half decade rising to the top of the pop consciousness, thumping club beats across our radios (well, iPods, really) and lighting up the internet and all its video players with erotic movements that are more slithering than dancing, natural movements setting off the freudian subconscious alarms in our heads.

To her, it's no big deal.

"At the end of a concert, I don't feel like I've been this sexy thing. Really, I don't even think about it," she tells the magazine, for which she poses naked this month.

Finally, after some reality check insisting, she makes a small admission.

"Unless it's a song that really calls for it, like 'Skin' or 'S&M,' or when I cover Darling Nikki,'" she allows. "There's a section that's called 'Sex' in the show, which is the obvious section for sexuality."

But that's as far as she'll go -- even if she admits that she loves choosing men from the audience on whom she can grind.

"Like, really? Honestly, even if it comes across sexual — it has to be a part of my subconscious thought," Rihanna says. "It's never deliberate in the rest of the show. I don't even really... I could see 'What's My Name?' — the dancing is pretty sexy. 'Rude Boy.' But I don't know. I guess people find different things sexy."

That's less than she'd admit in an interview with Glamour earlier this month; there, she at least allowed that she was being sexy, even if it was a character she was playing.

"That's not me. That's a part I play. You know, like it's a piece of art, with all these toys and textures to play with," she said. "See, people ... they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me, and [being a role model] became more of my job than I wanted it to be. But no, I just want to make music. That's it."

The star also speaks about the infamous Chris Brown incident, in which he, as her boyfriend in 2009, beat her bloody.

"It's incredible to see how he pulled out of it the way he did. Even when the world seemed like it was against him, you know? I really like the music he's putting out," she says. "I'm a fan of his stuff. I've always been a fan. Obviously, I had some resentment toward him for a while, for obvious reasons. But I've put that behind me. It was taking up too much of my time. It was too much anger. I'm really excited to see the breakthrough he's had in his career. I would never wish anything horrible for him. Never. I never have."

For more, click over to Esquire.

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'The Simpsons' Facing Cancellation Over Contract Issues With FOX: Report

Despite Homer Simpson's best efforts, it may not be a nuclear meltdown that brings about Springfield's doom. Instead, its end may come thanks to the business of Hollywood that the show has lampooned for so long.

According to a new report from The Daily Beast, the show's voice actors are locked in a bitter contract negotiation with 20th Century Fox, with the studio threatening to end production if the talent does not take a 45% pay cut. The actors are countering with an agreement that nets them a 30% reduction in salary but a small slice of the show's back-end earnings, which include the billion dollar syndication and merchandising empire that the studio has built over the past two plus decades.

At the moment, the Daily Beast reports, the show's voice actors -- Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer -- earn about $8 million a year, but do not get a cut of the show's much bigger ancillary profits.

The stars re-upped their contracts in 2008, receiving significant raises; it was reported that they went from $360,000 to $500,000 an episode.

Most of the actors, who each play a number of characters, have other gigs; Azaria, who voices Apu and Chief Wiggums, leads the way with his own NBC sitcom, "Free Agents," though the new show is already in danger of being cancelled thanks to low ratings. He also played a part in this fall's hit film, "Contagion" and starred in this summer's big hit, "The Smurfs."

Castellaneta, the voice of Homer, has had a recurring role in ABC Family's "Greek." Nancy Cartwright, Bart Simpson's voice, also did voices for "Rugrats" and the shows "The Replacements" and "Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures." Harry Shearer has also starred in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries.

'Arrested Development': New Episodes, Movie Coming

'Arrested Development':

Looks like TV execs are finally willing to admit they've made a huge mistake.

The cult classic television comedy about the travails of the rich, zany Bluth family, cancelled in 2006 after three seasons, will produce nine to ten new episodes and a movie, it was announced at The New Yorker Festival on Sunday.

"It's true. We will do 10 episodes and the movie. Probably shoot them all together next summer for a release in early '13. VERY excited!" leading actor Jason Bateman tweeted.

Smart and irreverent, the show also starred David Cross, Michael Cera, Portia De Rossi, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat and Jessica Walter. It was executive produced by Ron Howard, who also provided narration.

Since its cancellation, the show has earned a fervent fan base, with constant speculation as to when -- or whether -- the show would be adapted into a movie. The cast, led by Bateman and Will Arnett, has frequently promised that a movie would be coming, though until now they've been unable to offer any specifics. As it turns out, that can be attributed to the difficulties of intellectual properties and broadcast rights.

“We don’t completely own the property, there are business people involved and studios and that kind of thing," creator Mitch Hurwitz said on Sunday, as quoted by the NY Times. "Just creatively, I have been working on the screenplay for a long time and found that as time went by, there was so much more to the story. In fact, where everyone’s been for five years became a big part of the story. So in working on the screenplay, I found even if I just gave five minutes per character to that back story, we were halfway through the movie before the characters got together.”

As such, the plan is to have one episode explore each character as a lead-in to the film.

Just over two weeks ago, Bateman, who starred this summer's comedies, "Horrible Bosses" and "The Change-Up," told Entertainment Weekly that he was frustrated that he couldn't give more details, but assured a film would be forthcoming.

In February, Hurwitz told Digital Spy that the process was underway, but couldn't say more.

"I don't like to toy with the affections of our fans," he said. "They've been so supportive and we're so grateful, so I kind of hate to answer the question until I can say, 'Yep, we've shot it, it opens next week'. Otherwise it feels like we're toying with people and we do not mean to do that. It has just taken a while to get it going."