Jane Lynch — a.k.a. acid-tongued Sue Sylvester from Glee and your favorite part of Best in Show, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and dozens more films — puts Peter Travers in his place in the new episode of Off the Cuff. Find out what originally drew her to the role (a few lines in the script about Penthouse and horse estrogen), her first-ever big-screen role, Taxi Killer ("the freakiest thing I ever did in my life") and her most humiliating TV commercial ("I am every woman who has ever suffered from reflux"). Plus, watch her sing the Guatemalan love song from Virgin and come up with a new theme song for Travers' show.

Can Ted Danson recall Norm from Cheers' real first name? Is he willing to sing the show's famous theme right here in the Rolling Stone office? Peter Travers grills the star of Damages, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Bored to Death about everything from smoking fake weed (which "works just as well," Danson says) to his relationship with Woody Harrelson in the latest episode of Off the Cuff.

Do you want to play a game, Peter Travers? Our movie critic falls under the influence of Saw star Tobin Bell in the latest Off the Cuff, where the pair spar over the fate of Jigsaw, Bell's most bone-chilling Saw scenes ("I think that the surgery on my brain in Saw III was amazingly done — extremely credible"), the scariest scenes he's ever seen (from The Wizard of Oz to Dancing With the Stars) and criticism of "torture-porn" films.

The Office's John Krasinski recently disrupted the work at Rolling Stone offices to chat about his screen adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, in which he also plays a "scumbag," as Peter Travers puts it. Watch Krasinski discuss his impending Office wedding and his real-life engagement ("I hope I'm going into a good time in my life and I don't become a prick") and do his best Jason Bateman impression, and don't miss his post-Cuff interview where he turns the tables on Travers.

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Jennifer's Body star Megan Fox is on the cover of our new issue and the film's director Diablo Cody is in Peter Travers' hot seat. Watch her examine her own backlash ("I can see how I could be obnoxious to people ... my career trajectory is so improbable that I would think, this DC is an overrated piece of shit for sure"), revealing Tweets ("I think I just saw Beyoncé's fallopian tubes") and how she orchestrated an all-girl led Hollywood horror film.

Read Travers' review of Jennifer's Body here.

Peter Travers and Rolling Stone are wild about Gossip Girl's Dorota (Zuzanna Szadkowski in real life), so we roped the show's Polish maid into swinging by our offices to talk about her relationship with Leighton Meester, her cool level, and where the heck she was during graduation at the end of last season. The show premiered last night, but you can only check out Szadkowski screaming out Travers in Polish right here.

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• Sonic Youth Report In From the Set of Gossip Girl
• Video: Exclusive footage from the cast's RS photo session with Terry Richardson
• Photos: On the set with Blake Lively, Leighton Meester and the Gossip Guys
• Juicy Stories from the Set
‣ The Music of Gossip Girl
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If you've ever wanted to see Jason Bateman freestyle, slam Teen Wolf Too (and then redeem it!) and tell Hollywood off for hiring so many assholes, you are in luck. When the Extract star stopped by our offices to chat with Peter Travers, their conversation veered from the Arrested Development movie to his latest role as a beleaguered soul. One choice Bateman quote: "If you want to call me a whore, it's okay." Watch the full video, above.

In the latest episode of Peter Travers' chat show Off the Cuff, Halloween 2 director Rob Zombie swings by the office to discuss chick flicks (Zombie calls He's Not That Into You "excruciating"), how blogs have diminished the role of the movie critic and the possibility of Zombie making a feature-length version of his Grind House trailer, Were-Women of the SS.

"Quentin is saying that Inglourious Basterds is the end-all, be-all of Nazi films, so he either beat me to the punch, or it's the return of the Nazi film," Zombie says of the project. "So if that's a big smash, Nazis are the new black. They're back. And ours is one step more because they're werewolf Nazis."

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In Peter Travers' second "Off the Cuff" interview — an informal chat in his office where Hollywood stars are grilled on a variety of topics — Rolling Stone's movie critic breaks out his own magic wand (which looks like a blunt, he points out) for Tom Felton, who plays loathsome bully Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films (read Travers' review of the sixth film). Felton recalled the joys of listening to blaring '60s punk at 5 a.m. while getting his make-up done on the Potter set care of Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, and revealed how auditioning for the role of Potter and Ron Weasley led to a rainbow of humiliating hairstyles. He also clues Travers in on the trick to playing a really bad guy, and strums a little acoustic guitar. Click above to watch the full interview, and click here to check out the first "Off the Cuff," starring Justin Long:

• Justin Long: First Guest on "Off The Cuff With Peter Travers"

Harry Potter costumes provided by New York Costumes

Justin Long, the Mac guy, wins my good sport award for participating in the inaugural Off the Cuff with Peter Travers Show. Taking place in my office at Rolling Stone, the series is meant as a chance to chat with actors and filmmakers about everything but their current movie. No plugs allowed. I did allow a quick shout-out to Long's new movie, Drag Me To Hell, because director Sam Raimi did a hell of a job with the scares and Long brought a sly, witty charm to a role he aptly describes as "the girlfriend." Long's costar Alison Lohman is the one who gets slimed (maybe next time, Justin).

Anyway, I teased Long unmercifully, about everything from critics who hate his movies to his off-and-on relationship with Drew Barrymore. I even threatened his meal ticket by telling him my office Mac froze just as I was calling up his Google entry. Long picked up fast on the joke and gave better than he got. His mimicry of all four Beatles is spot on. Let me know if you like the concept, and who'd you like to see next on the hot seat. This photo shows Long doing something nasty with the V for Vendetta mask I keep in my office. He earned the privilege.