The daily gossip: Sylvester Stallone might have called Bruce Willis 'greedy and lazy', and more

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last updated 8 January 2015

1. Sylvester Stallone might have called Bruce Willis "GREEDY AND LAZY"

On Monday, Expendables 3 star Sylvester Stallone made a major casting announcement using his favorite medium: Brief, inexplicably capitalized and punctuated Twitter messages. "[Bruce] WILLIS OUT… HARRISON FORD IN !!!! GREAT NEWS !!!!!" tweeted Stallone, in a missive that could easily double as a line of dialogue from The Expendables 3. But Stallone's second message — which was widely interpreted as a shot at Willis —drew even more attention. "GREEDY AND LAZY ….. A SURE FORMULA FOR CAREER FAILURE," he added, as opposed to the purity and courage of a third Expendables movie. [Slashfilm]

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Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.

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