The Entertation Index: September 21

Blaine, David — The famed street magician is reportedly expecting a child with his French model-fiancee Alizee Guinochet, revealing the news at a recent cancer benefit in London. Though Blaine has become famous for a series of endurance-based illusions, the child’s repertoire of tricks will almost immediately will have a leg up on his father’s after spending nine months sealed inside an actual human being.

Link: David Blaine to Become a Dad (Monsters and Critics)

Ray Liotta should replace Tom Cruise in everything.

Goodfellas — Producer Irwin Winkler, speaking in an upcoming GQ interview centered around the mob classic’s twenty year anniversary, reveals that the roles played by Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco, at the behest of studio chiefs, almost went to Tom Cruise and Madonna. Were that the case, Winkler didn’t mention whether Morgan Freeman was in talks to play the President who would successfully help avoid what would have been that massive, massive disaster.

Link: Cruise and Madonna were First Choices for Goodfellas (ContactMusic)

McGillis, Kelly — TBTS extends congratulations to actress Kelly McGillis, who wed her girlfriend in a same-sex wedding ceremony in New Jersey last week. Strangely enough, however, even with marrying another woman, Top Gun still remains the gayest thing McGillis has ever been a part of.

Link: Top Gun Star Kelly McGillis Ties the Knot With her Girlfriend Just a Year After Coming Out (Daily Mail)

Situation, The — The Jersey Shore star is reportedly charging upwards of $500,000 per public appearance, while one source who tried unsuccessfully to deal with him recently revealed that his manager rebuffed the source by quoting “The Situation is bigger than Kim Kardashian.” Aww, come on. That’s just ridiculous. They’re both huge asses.

Link: Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino Thinks He’s a Bigger Star Than Kim Kardashian (Celebuzz)

Skinner, Leonard — Yesterday afternoon saw the passing of the most famous person you’ve never heard of.  77 year-old Leonard Skinner, once a high school gym teacher whose anti-long-hair rules prompted his students to name their rock band  –Lynyrd Skynyrd — after him, passed away in a Florida nursing home. Skinner is survived by wife Molly Hatchet, brother Jethro Tull and children Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Link: Leonard Skinner, Inspiration for Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dead at Age 77 (Orlando Sentinel)

Turns, As the World — The long-running soap opera, which spawned the careers of actors like Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei and Julianne Moore, ended its fifty-four year CBS run last Friday. Not surprisingly, the series was poisoned and murdered by its long-lost evil twin.

Link: A Fond Farewell to “As the World Turns” (NY Times)