“I think that [Matt Damon] has been very courageous in not caring about who he offends by saying the things that need to be said here, and if you want to win, the Republicans have certainly shown the way — that when you run someone who is popular, you win,” Moore recently said. “Sometimes even when you run an actor, you win. And I guess I only throw his name out there because I’d like us to start thinking that way.”

Not only is 40-year-old Damon involved in many causes, such as the need for clean water worldwide, he generally doesn’t bite his tongue when it comes to the issues.

Recently, he defended tenure-seeking teachers to a conservative reporter, and he argued that wealthy people like himself should be paying more taxes.

“The wealthy are paying less than they paid at any time else, certainly in my lifetime, and probably in the last century,” he said. “I don’t know what we were paying in the roaring ’20s; it’s criminal that so little is asked of people who are getting so much. I don’t mind paying more.”

He’s also taken aim at one of his former pet causes — President Barack Obama. He used to support the President, but he’s had issues with Obama’s relationship with Wall Street and his stance on education.

“I really think he misinterpreted his mandate. A friend of mine said to me the other day, I thought it was a great line, ‘I no longer hope for audacity,’ ” he told Piers Morgan in March. “He’s doubled down on a lot of things, going back to education … the idea that we’re testing kids and we’re tying teachers salaries to how kids are performing on tests, that kind of mechanized thinking has nothing to do with higher order. We’re training them, not teaching them.”

Whether you agree with him or not, Damon does have an eloquent way of speaking his mind. He’s also married with four kids (three biological), went to Harvard (didn’t graduate) and won an Oscar (for writing, not acting).

That said, there’s also been a lot of political buzz around Kelsey Grammer and Alec Baldwin lately.

Let us know: Which celebrity should run for president?

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Jennifer Aniston seems to have found love again with Justin Theroux — but back in 2005, she was still smarting from her devastating divorce from Brad Pitt.

She dusted herself off by signing on for, ironically, The Break Up, the hit 2006 romantic comedy costarrng Vince Vaughn.

“It was a beautiful human story about a couple breaking up…You know, I was slightly familiar on the topic and the issue,” Aniston, 42, confessed during her chat with James Lipton for her Inside the Actor’s Studio appearance.

“I honestly felt like, what a great way to sort of exorcise some of that,” she said of doing the film after the end of her five-year marriage to Pitt, 47, who famously paired up with Angelina Jolie afterwards.

Even The Break Up’s producers balked at asking Aniston to sign on for the flick given its sensitive subject matter, she revealed.

“I was like, why not? Turn the page, let’s move on.”

Her romantic heartache made the role “easier” to do, she said. “I enjoyed it! You’d think otherwise.”

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Cameron Diaz would have found her ‘Bad Teacher’ sex scene awkward if it was with anyone other than Justin Timberlake.

The former couple – who dated for almost four years until December 2006 – star together in the comedy movie in which the actress’ character Elizabeth Halsey romantically pursues Justin’s alter-ego Scott Delacorte, and the blonde beauty admits she wouldn’t have been so comfortable with anyone else.

She said: “If it was anyone else it would have been awkward. It would have been a different scene. But instead we laughed a lot. And because it was him, it just wasn’t uncomfortable.

“We were able to do things I may not have been comfortable doing with somebody else. There is so much trust there, there is no issue.

“Justin and I know who we are and we know where we stand in our relationship. So there’s a comfort in that and a safety.”

Justin also recently insisted he didn’t find shooting intimate scenes with his ex-girlfriend uncomfortable.

Asked if it was awkward because of their relationship history, Justin said: “I didn’t look at it like that. We obviously know each other, but I looked at it as a really funny, funny scene that I’ve never seen done before.

“What I actually remember was, you know, they got to my close-up for that scene, so I was just kind of by myself – which is hard to imitate in real life.”

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Yes, Django is slated to be released on Christmas Day, which was also when Miramax debuted Jackie Brown in 1997.

Studios can set a prime release date for a block buster a good two years in advance before a frame of film is shot, which is clearly the case with all the movies coming out in December 2012, and Django will certainly be coming out during a very busy holiday season.

December 21, 2011 will see the release of The Lone Ranger starring Armie Hammer (The Social Network) in the title role, and Johnny Depp as Tonto, directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean), Judd Apatow’s prequel to Knocked Up, and The Life of Pi, starring Tobey Maguire, directed by Ang Lee, are also due on December 21, and the long awaited first installment of The Hobbit, will be released on December 14.

Tarantino wants Will Smith to play Django, but reportedly talks have “cooled,” with Smith’s interest in the project “waning.”

Other actors being considered for the role include Jamie Foxx, Idris Elba (The Office, Thor), and Chris Tucker. (What about Michael Jai White, who did a great job playing Mike Tyson in the HBO biopic of the fallen boxer, and was also in Kill Bill and The Dark Knight?)

Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly in “final negotiations” to play the Simon Legree style slave master, Calvin Candie, and Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz are also reportedly close to closing deals to star in the film as well.

Other actors rumored to be up for roles in Django include Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, 300), Treat Williams (Prince of the City), Keith Carradine (Nashville, Cowboys and Aliens), and Franco Nero, who played the title role in the original Django.

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A baseball wife-swap story called The Trade was the original project he considered for himself and Ben Affleck in lead roles. But due to legal issues, the film is on hold, per Vulture in New York magazine.

According to that report, Damon stated, “I am coming closer to a directorial thing. I’ve got a few things that I really want to direct, and one I’m actually going to start at the first quarter of next year.” The actor added, “John Krasinski’s in it.”

Father Daughter follows a man on a multi-state crime spree with his daughter in tow. It has not been revealed if Damon will star in the film, too.

After working with directors like Martin Scorsese (The Departed), Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan), the Coen Brothers (True Grit), and Steven Soderbergh (Che: Part Two), Damon will join Ben Affleck, his fellow Oscar-winner for the Good Will Hunting screenplay, behind the camera.

Krasinski, a regular on The Office, will also appear in The Muppets in November.

Damon was recently in The Adjustment Bureau, costarring with Krasinski’s wife, Emily Blunt. He will next star in Steven Soderberg’s Contagion costarring Kate Winslet and Jude Law on October 21 and Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo with Scarlett Johansson opening December 23.

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The pair, who reportedly broke up a few days ago, still seem to be gravitating toward each other when it comes to their nights out.

The actress, 38, and the New York Yankees slugger, 35, seemed quite the couple at the MTV Movie Awards afterparty, sponsored by Yoostar, at Soho House in West Hollywood Sunday night. “They left early holding hands. She was all smiles with him,” a source tells PEOPLE.

This follows another night out on Thursday at a bar in Los Angeles called Goal, where they watched Game 2 of the NBA finals.

Rodriguez’s Yankees have been on a West Coast swing, including a series this weekend against the L.A. Angels.

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The magazine is reporting that the duo have been seen getting cozy together around New York City lately.

It was recently reported that Timberlake was dating Olivia Wilde but that turned out to be incorrect. Both Timberlake and Olsen are newly single.  He and his girlfriend of three years, Jessica Biel, recently split up.

The two have been spotted at the Greenwich Hotel, a “Saturday Night Live” after party, two Broadway shows and a polo match outside the city.

“They are hooking up,” an anonymous source told US Magazine. “They’re really trying to keep it on the down-low.”

The magazine also quotes an Olsen source saying that Ashley “is aware of Justin’s reputation with women, but … They’re in the same head space.”

In the past weeks, Timberlake has also been linked to Wilde, Cameron Diaz, who he already dated in the past, and Mila Kunis. Kunis and Timberlake star in the upcoming “Friends with Benefits” film.

A rep for Timberlake told the blog Gossip Cop, “they’ve been friends for a long time,” and that he and Olsen are not romantically involved.

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The actor sounded plenty fed up Saturday night according to reports–and not because Gary Busey got tossed off “Celebrity Apprentice.”

So what got the Goodfella feeling so bad?

During an interview about his film career with NBC’s Brian Williams tied to the Tribeca Film Festival, which the actor helped found, the conversation strayed into politics and the notoriously tight-lipped interviewee reportedly got more talkative.

(TODAY.com is part of msnbc.com, which is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

Discussing the recent near government shutdown, De Niro took a moment to draw a distinction between President Barack Obama, whom the actor stumped for 2008, and others in Washington, D.C.

“This is crazy,” said the actor, according to Movieline. “And I know Obama was trying to bridge the gap. His intentions are really good. Maybe some things are not as good as we all would like, but his intentions were right. A lot of these guys, their intentions are not even good. They’re just playing the game. And they’re playing with people’s lives.”

The issue of the president’s birth certificate especially seemed to get De Niro fired up.

“I won’t mention names, but certain people in the news the last couple weeks, just, what are they doing? It’s crazy. They’re making statements about people that they don’t even back up,” said De Niro, per the website. “Go get the facts before you start saying things about people.”

Williams asked if De Niro was talking about the “Celebrity Apprentice” host (and possible presidential candidate ), and De Niro reportedly confirmed he was.

“It’s like a big hustle. It’s like being a car salesman. Don’t go out there and say things unless you can back them up. How dare you? That’s awful to do. To just go out and speak and say these terrible things? Unless you just wanna get over and get the job. It’s crazy.”

Guess that means neither De Niro nor Jerry Seinfeld will be appearing on Celebrity Apprentice anytime soon.

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Berlusconi is accused of paying for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl and using his influence to try to cover it up. He denies wrongdoing.

The trial opens April 6 in Milan. On Tuesday, prosecutors and defense attorneys presented their lists of witnesses to the court. A judge must now decide which witnesses to admit.

The law firm representing Berlusconi says Clooney was listed because the Moroccan teenager once said she had seen Clooney and girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis at one of Berlusconi’s parties.

Canalis has reportedly denied attending.

An email sent to Clooney’s representative wasn’t immediately answered.

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Aniston remarks that she can’t just tell people how great her product is —she has to go viral, which apparently includes animals, dancing babies and double rainbow guy.

She ends by asking her video helpers, “What are we going to call this video?”

“Jen Aniston’s sex tape?” they say.

Aniston’s response: “I love it.”

Watch the video:

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