Randomonium

• Chrysler is lowering the price of its mini-vans by $2,000, which could start a round of price cuts in the auto industry.


• Elisha Cuthbert (Jack Bauer’s daughter on “24”) was almost killed during a recent visit to New York City, when she walked into oncoming traffic on a busy road without looking. The twenty-four-year-old actress was hit by a car and thrown across the street.


• Kevin Spacey will return as Lex Luther in the next Superman movie, "Superman: Man of Steel."


• Mandy Patinkin was a no-show first day of work on "Criminal Minds." So, while they work out his contract, he's been written out of the first episode of the new season.


• Katharine McPhee has landed a movie role, and Rumer Willis will be one of her co-stars. Yep, that’s the son of Bruce Willis.


• The top two candidates to take over for Bob Barker on "The Price is Right": Entertainment Tonight's Mark Steines and “E” Television's Todd Newton.


• NBC is bringing back "The Apprentice," only with an all-celebrity cast.


• Archeologists in Australia have found the fossilized remains of a fanged killer kangaroo.


• Daniel Craig says the next Bond movie will be a lot funnier.