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Nobody pokes fun at a panda in this town and gets away with it.

A Chinese artist known for invoking his country's bamboo-gnawing national symbol in nearly everything that he does has filed a complaint against DreamWorks over its treatment of Po, the initially inept bear voiced by Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda.

Zhao Bandi, who last month rallied for a boycott of the film, is demanding an apology from the studio for certain attributes it assigned to the title panda, including his green eyes and the fact that he has a duck for a father.

Beijing's Chaoyang District People's Court has formally accepted his suit, he says.

But Bandi is not asking for any money—just the apology.

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High School Musical star and official Zac Efron straddler Vanessa Hudgens is spotted outside Smashbox Studios with goods from Intelligentsia Coffee, and boom! She's suddenly rumored as being the new face for the small coffee chain.

However, marketing reps for the company tell E! News this is not true—she was just snapped after stopping at one of their stores. They politely left out any mention of being way too cool to ever think of using the "Sneakernight" singer in ads.

Besides, if V. were to ever rep a coffee company, it would be the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf hands down.

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Inspired by Heath Ledger's way-twisted Joker in The Dark Knight, we assembled a posse of nine movie villains who'd make anyone's skin crawl—and asked E! Online readers to pick No. 10. And boy, what a freak show!

Miriss says, "Christopher Walken is creepy even when he doesn't play a creepy guy." And Gary Oldman from The Professional got plenty of love. "When he hums Beethoven while blasting the whole family away," says Liala, "it's just too good to watch."

Shout-outs for Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange, Kathy Bates in Misery, the ghost-kid from The Grudge, Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son, Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Jigsaw from Saw. Plus, Mack brings up a good point: "The Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is hella scary!"

But your most popular choice for cinema creep is...

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Let it be known: Stephen Colbert is neither Iraqnophobic nor arachnophobic. Especially now with a namesake eight-legged friend.

Fresh from a two-week hiatus, the new Emmy nominee is expected to soon put the science world—and, as always, the Colbert Nation—on notice as to which species of spider will bear his moniker and officially be named the aptastichus stephencolberti (yes, the "t" will be silent).

The truthiness purveyor has been tasked with choosing just one of 27 species of trapdoor spiders to be named in his honor, an unusual accolade given to him by University of North Carolina biologist Jason Bond in an appearance on Colbert's show last month.

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Nor should the "Sexyback" singer ever quit his day job and become a drag queen.

While hosting the ESPY Awards Wednesday night, Justin Timberlake donned a wig and stood behind a Daisy Duke cutout of Jessica Simpson to poke fun at the pop star-turned-country crooner's relationship with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.

Playful and amusing? Perhaps. Yet we can't help but feel a little sorry for Jess...

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It was cute when Heidi Montag declared she would be the ScarJo to John McCain’s Obama and then McCain responded by saying he never missed an episode of The Hills. But we had hoped that would be just a one time jokey-joke thing.

Sadly, it’s not.

Reality TV’s biggest publicity whore spent yesterday power lunching with McCain Blogette, or as she’s more formally known: Meghan McCain, daughter of the Republican presidential hopeful.

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The Rocket Man just hooked up with the ice cream guys.

Elton John has joined the rarified and rather delicious ranks of Stephen Colbert, Jerry Garcia, Monty Python, Dave Matthews and Phish, becoming the latest celebrity inspiration for a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor: Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road

The limited-edition treat will be rolled out for one week only later this month to coincide with John's first concert in the pint purveyors' home base of Vermont, the last state in the U.S. the Brit rock star has yet to perform in.

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First thing's first: As far as we know, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins have not made a break for it just yet.

Nadine Bauer, the spokeswoman for Fondation Lenval, Jolie's five-star seaside hospital, told E! News Saturday night that any official word on the birth would be posted on the facility's website.

There hasn't been a Jolie update since she checked in nearly two weeks ago.

That appears to shoot down two reports claiming les bébés had been liberated earlier today.

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Nicole Richie played voyeur for her Fourth of July festivities as the new mom strolled sans baby Harlow and rocker beau Joel Madden on the beaches of Malibu.

With several girlfriends in tow, Nicole happened upon an interpretive dance performance going on in the sand. Either that or a new strip club was opening. Whatever the case, an eyewitness tells us that eight Cal State dance students were "gyrating," part of a traveling beach exhibit that explores man's relationship with the ocean. Ah, the motion of the ocean.

Are we absolutely sure it wasn't a traveling strip club?

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