Joe the Country Singer? Record Deal In the Works

And Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin is still pretty scary: reactions

(NEWSER) - If you thought Julianne Moore's Sarah Palin was terrifying in the first Game Change teaser , wait until you see her in the full trailer, where she utters lines such as, "We have to win this thing. I so don’t want to go back to Alaska." Watch below, then read on for some reactions:

• This will clearly be "a Frankenstein-esque story about McCain’s staffers coming to regret the choice they made in bringing a little-known governor into the limelight," writes Jon Bershad at Mediaite . "The full trailer ... gives us even more famous actors getting their turn to stare in horror at the 'monster' they’ve created."

...no one, though he wishes Herman Cain was still in the race

(NEWSER) - Joe the Plumber is running for Congress as a Republican in Ohio, but he's not endorsing any of the GOP candidates for president because his favorite is no longer in the race—Herman Cain. Just like Cain, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (aka "Joe the Plumber"), says he supports the idea of handing more power to the states, a 9-9-9-esque flat tax, and politicians who don't make a career out of serving, reports the Daily Beast . “Political experience means experience in screwing you,” he said. “I’m not an ambiguous person. I speak my mind. A lot of people don’t do that anymore.” More»

HBO debuts first teaser

(NEWSER) - For all of you who have spent the past nine months wondering how Julianne Moore’s Sarah Palin impersonation will stack up against Tina Fey’s , you finally have your answer. HBO debuted its first teaser trailer for Game Change, the film due in March that's based on the Mark Halperin-John Heilemann book about the 2008 presidential election. Neither Ed Harris as John McCain nor Woody Harrelson as top adviser Steve Schmidt sound much like their real-life counterparts, notes David Jackson in USA Today , but Moore’s Palin is spot-on: Numerous publications including People , New York , the Huffington Post , and Jezebel are fairly impressed. More»

He's been charged with domestic assault

(AP) - Rodney Atkins has filed for divorce, and his attorney denied today that the country singer assaulted his wife last month. Atkins was arrested Nov. 21 and charged with domestic assault. His wife, Tammy Jo Atkins, told police that after a night of heavy drinking he assaulted her and tried to suffocate her with a pillow. Attorney Rose Palermo called the allegations of violence "completely untrue" in a statement and said the argument did not become physical. More»

Family drama gets a little more dramatic

(NEWSER) - And the plot thickens... Mindy McCready today explained that she won't be able to comply with a judge's orders that she bring her 5-year-old son back to Florida by 5pm tomorrow. Because she's in Nashville. And pregnant. With twins. Speaking to the AP , McCready says she is almost seven months along ( People, however, says McCready's rep pegs her at just five months); no word on the identity of father. The country singer says she and her mother have had a long custody battle over Zander, and today told Access Hollywood , 'I did not steal my child, as it would be impossible for me to kidnap what already belongs to me!" Click for more on the family drama . More»