In light of this week’s Discovery Networks hostage standoff which ended with police killing the gunman, perhaps John Cusack might want to tone it down a bit.

The 44-year-old actor found himself in a war of words with Fox News after he issued a tart reply on his Twitter page to a fan’s question about whether he’s for or against the so-called Ground Zero mosque.

“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES [OF] DICK ARMEY AND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS,” Cusack wrote in a sarcastic all-caps tweet Sunday evening to his 200,000-plus followers.

That didn’t go over so well with the touchy right-wing network, which blasted the Say Anything star and self-described progressive, accusing him of “making threats.”

Fox News columnist Joe Piazza on Tuesday quoted Dr. Carole Lieberman, a Beverly Hills psychiatrist, who said that Cusack’s “provocative tweets could easily incite a rabid fan to commit violent acts against Fox News Headquarters and others he names.”

“Fans could not only be influenced because of their devotion to Cusack, the man, but also because of their love for one of the characters he plays,” she said.

It would also be nice to know what Dr. Lieberman thinks of Fox News months-long campaign of incitement against the proposed Islamic community center, but no comment was forthcoming on that topic.

For his part, Cusack remained unapologetic.

“Thanks for all the fact-challenged souls who don’t like opinions—you may not like me but never had one person debate the facts,” he tweeted later.

The thesp further vented his feelings on the mosque issue, writing in a follow up post that his previous Tweet was an “absurd over the top joke” made “after the 900th time I was asked about ground zero center-they can’t even print it.”

Cusack’s rep has yet to comment on the dust up. 

The A-lister meanwhile just signed on to play Edgar Allen Poe in the fictional drama The Raven which, per the Hollywood Reporter, finds the famed writer trying to track down a serial killer who takes his poems, ahem, a bit too seriously.

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Office boss Paul Lieberstein promises us fans that Steve Carell’s seriously sad departure from The Office is not the beginning of the end for the Dunder Mifflin empire.

In fact, the producers behind NBC’s hit comedy have all sorts of goodness planned before, during and after Michael Scott says goodbye, including (perhaps) a big-screen adventure.

Here’s what Lieberstein revealed to us about the show’s future and The Office: The Movie:

“There’s been no talk at any point of The Office ending,” Paul tells us exclusively. Turns out, the only folks talking about any such thing are reporters covering the show—ya hear that, fellow media hounds?

In fact, the show’s still going so strong that we might even see an Office flick a few years down the line. How awesome would that be?

“Maybe when the series is done we’d do an Office movie. I’d be up for that,” Paul teases. “But they’re all such big movie stars now, I don’t know if we could afford them on set.” (We can see it now—Ryan and Kelly are finally getting hitched, and Michael Scott returns to try and give away another bride. It’s perfect!)

Paul also urges fans to stick with The Office post-Steve Carell, promising the future is bright for the show.

“This will definitely change the dynamic [of the show],” he explains. “And we can’t just replace Steve because I think that would lead to failure. We have to do something different. This show is really about office life, which so many people live. And changing it up a little will be welcome to the fans. Steve feels he’s played almost everything he can with Michael Scott. There isn’t a lot of new territory for him to discover. And if he’s feeling that, fans must be, at a certain level, feeling that too—it’s an opportunity to reinvent The Office.”

And we can’t wait to see The Office reinvention in action!

Are you onboard for a Dunder Mifflin movie? Will you stick around through the Michael Scott-less transition period? Give us your thoughts in the comments below.

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Thanks to Dancing With the Stars‘ requirement that contestants be healthy (at least when they start the show), Jennifer Grey still has many more times-of-her-life to be had.

The actress’ rep confirms to E! News that a spinal surgeon who counts Karina Smirnoff as a patient encouraged Grey to have what she thought was a benign nodule removed from her neck last year.

And it’s a good thing she did, because the lump turned out to be cancerous.

After the December 2009 procedure, Grey “required no follow-up treatment and was given a clean bill of health to be part of this season’s cast on Dancing With the Stars,” her rep says.

The 50-year-old Dirty Dancing star (my, how time flies) told Zap2It that she told the DWTS docs that her neck was “killing” her, chronic pain from a bad car accident years ago, and that she should get it checked out by a specialist to see if she was fit enough to do the show.

“I went to this neurological spine surgeon who I heard was the best,” Grey said.

First of all, the ligaments in the back of her neck were torn, her spinal cord was compressed and the doctor told her that a fall or even a minor car accident could leave her paralyzed.

“He also said to me, ‘What’s that lump in your neck?’” Grey recalled. “I said, ‘Oh, it’s just a benign nodule that I’ve been watching for four years.’ I didn’t want to have surgery for it, but he said, ‘That has to go.’ They took out half of it, and it turned out to be cancerous. Then they took the second half out on Christmas Eve.”

And now, the only fall Grey has to worry about is the fall season of DWTS, premiering Sept. 20. The actress, who “didn’t do the lift, but it was good,” is partnered with two-time champ Derek Hough and is already considered an early favorite.

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