HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune Actor Shaun Toub in the lobby of San Diego's W Hotel. Toub views his character, Rahim, as “the heart and soul of the film.”

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Shaun Toub and companion Lorena are easily the sharpest looking couple in a glassy corner bar of a hip San Diego hotel. In fact, they're the only couple, but one guesses that even a jammed room wouldn't change the obvious fact.

Next to Santa and the UPS guy, Ebenezer Scrooge is possibly the busiest man on the planet this time of year, and you have to believe it really yanks the old skinflint's chain to be trotted across so many stages and through so many different takes on his story.

Tila Tequila, world record holder for MySpace friends, has whittled 32 male and female suitors down to two, and tomorrow night at 10 on her ribald MTV show, “A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila,” will make the final choice about who wins her heart.