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Convicted kidnapper and attacker Peter Braunstein is still in love with Gossip Girl, especially the Blair Waldorf character. In an interview tonight, the former journalist tells Inside Edition, "Monday nights, it’s like sacred, man. Everybody in the cell block knows that. Nobody talks to me when Gossip Girl is on," and says of Blair, "Even though she’s scheming and has a thing about power, she’s loyal. She’s everything that I wanted in a girl." He also brings up Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker, "Everyone sees a lot of me in the ‘Joker’ character here. It’s kind of a running joke, like, ‘that guy’s a lot like you.’"

The Dark Knight is currently clocking in with a 94% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. There are some mixed reviews, like David Denby’s in The New Yorker, but Manohla Dargis at the Times got it right: “No matter how cynical you feel about Hollywood, it is hard not to fall for a film that makes room for a shot of the Joker leaning out the window of a stolen police car and laughing into the wind, the city’s colored lights gleaming behind him like jewels. He’s just a clown in black velvet, but he’s also some kind of masterpiece.” (Gothamist review here.)

The new Joker action figure modeled after the late Heath Ledger has started arriving in stores and is reportedly flying off the shelves, as toy collectors scoop up as many of the snuff toys as they can get their hands on. After completing filming on The Dark Night, Ledger died in January from a prescription drug overdose.

A brand new full-length trailer for The Dark Knight hit the web today; the last one circulated in December -- just one month before one of the film's stars, Heath Ledger, was found dead. This trailer was originally screened at NYC's Comic-Con late last month, and gave viewers the first glimpse of Aaron Eckhart's Two-Face character. Watch the larger version here.