This week, Entertainment Weekly is showing off Ryan Reynolds in costume as the Green Lantern, in advance of the San Diego Comic-Con, as part of their behind-the-scenes look at next summer’s big superhero movie.

Reynolds stars as Hal Jordan, a cocky test pilot who gains super powers when he is entrusted with a cosmically-powered ring, enabling him to summon anything he can imagine. This isn’t Reynolds’ first turn in a comic book film, having played Hannibal King in 2004′s Blade 3 and as Deadpool in last year’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This is, however, Reynolds’ first time as the lead in a sci-fi epic, alongside director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale).

There are some challenges associated with playing the part of a major superhero, according to Reynolds, including being whisked through the air at 60 feet per second by wire, to create the illusion of flight. “The first time you do it, you’re seriously considering an adult diaper,” Reynolds said.

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Sorry guys, Megan Fox is officially off the market. FHM’s Hottest Woman in the World 2008 married her longtime off-again-on-again beau Brian Austin Green in an intimate ceremony in Hawaii last weekend. This is the first marriage for both stars, though Green, 36, has one eight-year-old son with actress Vanessa Marcil. Fox, 24, has hinted at the upcoming nuptuals for some time, and the couple had been rumored to have been engaged since 2006.

But the wedding rumor began when Star Magazine reported on Monday of a secret ceremony at the Four Seasons Hualalai at Ka’upulehu last week, and that the couple is still honeymooning at the resort.

Fox and Green began dating in 2004 after meeting on the set of the ABC sitcom “Hope and Faith.”

Megan Fox is best known for her roles in the movies “Transformers” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” starring opposite Shia LeBouf. Brian Austin Green is mostly remembered for his decade-long role on “Beverly Hills 90210,” and more recently on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”

John Mayer wrote to his fans via Twitter today to apologize for using the N-word in his recent interview with Playboy magazine. He discusses a number of things throughout the course of the interview, including sex with Jessica Simpson and likening his junk to David Duke.

Over a series of tweets, he wrote:

Re: using the ‘N word’ in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. And it’s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there’s no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged.

We’ve placed the relevant text from the interview below. (The bolding’s ours.)

PLAYBOY: If you didn’t know you, would you think you’re a douche bag?

MAYER: It depends on what I picked up. My two biggest hits are “Your Body Is a Wonderland” and “Daughters.” If you think those songs are pandering, then you’ll think I’m a douche bag. It’s like I come on very strong. I am a very…I’m just very. V-E-R-Y. And if you can’t handle very, then I’m a douche bag. But I think the world needs a little very. That’s why black people love me.

PLAYBOY: Because you’re very?

MAYER: Someone asked me the other day, “What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?” And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a hood pass if you really have a hood pass? But I said, “I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’”

PLAYBOY: It is true; a lot of rappers love you. You recorded with Common and Kanye West, played live with Jay-Z.

MAYER: What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that’s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you’ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude’s.

PLAYBOY: Do black women throw themselves at you?

MAYER: I don’t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my dick.

PLAYBOY: Let’s put some names out there. Let’s get specific.

MAYER: I always thought Holly Robinson Peete was gorgeous. Every white dude loved Hilary from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And Kerry Washington. She’s superhot, and she’s also white-girl crazy. Kerry Washington would break your heart like a white girl. Just all of a sudden she’d be like, “Yeah, I sucked his dick. Whatever.” And you’d be like, “What? We weren’t talking about that.”

While there hasn’t been any official comment on the interview, Simpson did tweet “interesting day so far…hmm.” in what appears to be some response.

The following is Conan O’Brien’s final “Tonight Show” monologue. Tongue-in-cheek, it is what his intellectual silly comedy has been about from the get-go.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have exactly one hour to steal every single item in this studio.

We’ve had a lot of fun being here these last seven months, but like everything in life, the fun has to come to an end a decade too early.

The terms of my settlement say that I can’t host another show for seven months. So next week look forward to the Andy Richter Show with his sidekick, me!

As I set off for exciting new career opportunities, I just want to make one thing clear to everyone listening out there: I will do nudity. And you don’t want that. Nobody wants that.

Now that this mess is almost behind me, I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I’d like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton.

People have been asking me what’s going to happen to our studio after we’re gone. There are actually a few possible uses for our studio being kicked around. I thought I’d share some of those ideas with your right now:

• Site of Tiger Woods’ 1st Annual Mistress Reunion
• Fitting Room for the cast of “The Biggest Loser”
• Storage facility for apology notes to NBC stockholders
• Waterpark for Max Weinberg’s illegitimate children
• Hair and chest oil storage for the “Jersey Shore” cast
• Future site of “Cooters,” the nation’s first pantsless sports bar and restaurant
• Studio preserved as a nice, quiet, peaceful place where the cast of “Chuck” can be alone with their thoughts
• Magician David Blaine will attempt the impossible by trying to remain in the studio for longer than seven months
• Leave the studio cold and empty and re-name it “The World’s Largest Metaphor for NBC programming”
• Panic room for Gary Busey after the rise of the fire hydrants
• Studio will be air-lifted to a location with better luck, like on top of a Native American burial ground

Before ending his final show, Conan gave the following speech. He asserted numerous times that it wasn’t a joke, and it seemed as if he was on the verge of tears as he delivered it:

Before we end this rodeo, a few things need to be said. There has been a lot of speculation in the press about what I legally can and can’t say about NBC.  To set the record straight, tonight I am allowed to say anything I want. And what I want to say is this: between my time at Saturday Night Live, The Late Night Show, and my brief run here on The Tonight Show, I have worked with NBC for over twenty years.  Yes, we have our differences right now and yes, we’re going to go our separate ways.  But this company has been my home for most of my adult life.  I am enormously proud of the work we have done together, and I want to thank NBC for making it all possible.

Walking away from The Tonight Show is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Making this choice has been enormously difficult. This is the best job in the world, I absolutely love doing it, and I have the best staff and crew in the history of the medium. But despite this sense of loss, I really feel this should be a happy moment. Every comedian dreams of hosting The Tonight Show and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second. I’ve had more good fortune than anyone I know and if our next gig is doing a show in a 7-11 parking lot, we’ll find a way to make it fun.

I don’t want to do it in a 7-11 parking lot, but whatever, we’ll make it fun.

And finally, I have to say something to our fans. The massive outpouring of support and passion from so many people has been overwhelming. The rallies, the signs, all the goofy, outrageous creativity on the internet, and the fact that people have traveled long distances and camped out all night in the pouring rain to be in our audience, made a sad situation joyous and inspirational.

To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I’ll think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing, and this is especially for the young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism- it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.  As proof, let’s make an amazing thing happen right now.  Here to close out our show, are a few good friends, led by Mr. Will Ferrell…

At which point Will Ferrell in a Lynyrd Skynyrd-type getup and the Tonight Show band, along with Conan on guitar, closed out The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

Next week resumes The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. How many of you will be watching?

Battlestar Galactica spin-off Caprica is set to premier tonight, January 22nd, on SyFy. Premier is probably too strong a word, as anyone with more than a passing interest in the new show has already been given multiple opportunities to screen it. It was initially released on DVD in April of ’09 (with extra boobs!), and also hit Hulu.com last month.

Caprica is a prequel to the re-imagined BSG series that took a bow on SyFy last year. It features Eric Stoltz and Esai Morales who are obsessed with their daughters to an uncomfortably creepy degree, and tells the tale of the downfall of Colonial society while beating you over the head with themes like racism.

The premier vacilates between pulse-pounding action and melodrama, and seems to lose its way at some point, similar to Battlestar’s infamous bog-down in its third season. The show’s premise has potential though, and if you were a fan of the re-imagined BSG you might as well give this prequel a chance to find its legs before passing final judgement.

Caprica airs Friday nights on SyFy at 9/8c. Check your local listings.

Okay so technically the CW didn’t exist when Shiri Appleby’s last successful show — the cult hit “Roswell” — took a bow, but during its three year run it did start out on the now defunct WB before moving to the equally defunct UPN. Since then those two networks have combined (I’ll form the head) into the CW, and Shiri has returned with a new hour long drama, “Life Unexpected.” She is joined by Kristoffer Polaha, who you may remember from “North Shore” or “Miss Guided” (or not, since nobody actually watched them), as her one night stand and the father of the child she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago. Brittany Robertson of “Swingtown” and “Dan in Real Life” is that child, who is of course is more mature and put-together than her erstwhile parents.

And there you have the basic plot: man-child meets girl, finds out girl is his daughter he never knew about. Man-child introduces girl to another girl who happens to be her mother. Shots are taken at the foster system, somehow there is a family in all of this, and hilarity ensues.

While the pilot failed to surprise in plot, “Life Unexpected” was unexpectedly enjoyable. It suffers from a soundtrack which is far too loud and at times drowns out the actors, whcih is distracting at times, but the dialogue is otherwise snappy and well delivered. It looks like the CW might finally have another show worth watching, aside from “Supernatural.”

“Life Unexpected” airs Mondays on the CW at 9/8c — make sure tocatch it if you can, since the CW’s online player is pretty awful.

“Good work is being done and all of us have our fingers crossed,” Reitman said, though he declined to say what precisely that ‘good work’ encompassed, nor would he comment on any of actress Sigourney Weaver’s speculation about the fate of Bill Murray’s character Pete Venkman, whom Weaver claimed might be a ghost in the new film.

When speaking about any kind of schedule, he told MTV “I hope to start shooting in this next year,” lending credence to writer/star Harold Ramis’ recent comments about a planned 2011 release.

We’ve just learned that Carrie Underwood is engaged to Mike Fisher, a professional hockey player who just signed a $21 million contract with the Ottawa Senators.

Yes, Star Wars fans. This does mean that her married name, should she choose to use it, will be Carrie Fisher.

Reports are that Brittany Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack, told staff at Cedars-Sinai hospital that he did not want an autopsy performed on his deceased wife. However, despite Monjack’s wishes, the L.A. Coroner’s office will proceed with an autopsy as planned.

Ed Winter, a representative of the coroner’s office has stated that foul play is not suspected at this time. However, investigators did find a number of prescriptions in the house, and toxicology tests will be performed, though it may take up to six weeks for the results.

Murphy’s mother, who found her daughter unconscious in the shower and called 911, told paramedics that she had a history of diabetes – though it is yet unconfirmed whether diabetes played a role in the actress’ death.