Another busy day
So on to the linkspam!
Nobel winner Solzhenitsyn dies at 89; Remembering Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Putin honors late Solzhenitsyn.
Pauline Baynes, Narnia Illustrator, Passes Away at 85.
Morgan Freeman Involved in Car Crash - Serious But Stable; Morgan Freeman suffers fractures in wreck; Morgan Freeman is gonna be okay!
Knox and Vivienne make online debut.
NEW PRETENDERS SONGS FOR DOWNLOAD ZOMG.
Coldplay finally release "Viva La Vida" music video.
SF Authors Pick Favorite Examples of World-Building.
Is Neil Patrick Harris a Gay Hero?
And speaking of Belinda Carlisle, Pop Quiz: Belinda Carlisle (interview). "In the '80s you used to have drugs sent by FedEx to all your tour stops. Who knew you were so rock 'n' roll?" AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD IN ME JUST DIED.
Kids! Want to pretend to die just like the people on the Titanic?
Re: Comic-Con: Fan Rant: The Post Comic Con Bitching; Are Studios Finally Learning Fanboys are a Waste of Time? (By the way, Sister Girl and her boyfriend had dinner with us last night, and I said, "Hey, how was Comic-Con? I heard the Watchmen panel was great," and he said, "Yeah, I heard that too" [heh], and added, "And they also had a big panel for the new Stephenie Meyer book." "Yeah? I heard the fans were lined up a mile deep for that." And he said, "Pshhh, they were lined up further than that.")
Images: New Terminator Salvation Photo; New Ben Barnes Photos From "Easy Virtue"; New Pics Show What It's Like To Live In The Doomed 'City Of Ember'; 'Igor' Final Poster Premiere; Paul Rudd And Seann William Scott Are ‘Role Models’ And We’ve Got Your First Look; Posters for 'Despereaux' and 'The Express'; First Official Poster for Oliver Stone's W. Biopic.
Trailers and clips: Ensembled 'Winged Creatures' Trailer is Obvious Oscar Bait; New 'Pride and Glory' Trailer; Hathaway Earns Tough Love in 'Rachel Getting Married' Trailer; New 'Mutant Chronicles' Trailer Teaches Crucial NecroMutant-Killing Skills; 'Choke' Red Band Trailer is Back; New Trailer for Andrew Fleming's 'Hamlet 2.'
trailer_spot: What Just Happened, Infinite Playlist, Rachel Getting Married, Pride and Glory, Princess and Frog.
The Dark Knight Kicks The Mummy's Ass - Headed for $480 Million!; ‘Dark Knight’ won’t sink ‘Titanic’ record; Official: Olsen seeks immunity in Ledger probe; Fan Rant: Ledger's Drug Use Has No Place in Oscar Talk; 18 famed clowns -- funny or creepy?; The Truth About Those Dark Knight Sequel Casting Rumors; Christian Bale's X-rated wish; Dark Knight star nominated for award; Batman's voice: Eastwood meets grizzly bear.
‘Mummy 4’ To Re-Locate To Latin America With New Twist, Says Director. Sigh.
‘Breaking Dawn’ Sells 1.3 Million Copies In One Day; Million-selling opening for vampire series finale means that Little, Brown will print 500,000 more copies, "making the total print run 3.7 million ("Related: Does 'Twilight' Suck the Brains Out of Teens?"); Face It: America Loves Vampires and Dead Animal Corpses; Paper Cuts: Stephenie Meyer, Live in Concert; 12 movie/TV vampires with bite. Also: Stephenie Meyer's 'Breaking Dawn' playlist (which includes... Right Said Fred?). Also-also: RPattz "Edward" helps review Breaking Dawn.
(Son of Also: There is a key detail that I was flailing around too hard to notice the first time around when I was recapping Breaking Dawn. I have since added it to the commentary--search for "ETA:" to find it.)
I boozed a little to audition for Doolittle, admits Keira. Wait, wait, did we already know that Daniel Day-Lewis is playing Higgins?
Is ‘Brideshead Revisited’ The Sleeper Hit Of The Summer?
Rumor: Magneto Spin-Off Shooting Next Year?
Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' Gears Up Once Again ... Hopefully This Time It Sticks.
Disney Sets Up 'Monster Attack Network.'
Exclusive: No 'Pablo' for Bardem?
Robert Downey Jr. Talks Iron Man 2, And Second Action Franchise: Sherlock Holmes; Holmes-wreckers?
Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood' Is Headed for the Big Screen!
Lisa Lerner's 'Just Like Beauty' Preps for the Big Screen.
9/11 Conspiracy Movie to Open on 9/11
Kevin Smith Talks About 'Zack and Miri''s MPAA Struggles (and 'Red State').
Why Did ‘The Love Guru’ Bomb? We Ask The Guru Himself, Deepak Chopra.
Roly Ritt: WB Starts Production on 'Scooby-Doo 3: The Beginning.' Kind of sounds like a horror movie, doesn't it?
Nobel winner Solzhenitsyn dies at 89; Remembering Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Putin honors late Solzhenitsyn.
Pauline Baynes, Narnia Illustrator, Passes Away at 85.
Morgan Freeman Involved in Car Crash - Serious But Stable; Morgan Freeman suffers fractures in wreck; Morgan Freeman is gonna be okay!
Knox and Vivienne make online debut.
NEW PRETENDERS SONGS FOR DOWNLOAD ZOMG.
Coldplay finally release "Viva La Vida" music video.
SF Authors Pick Favorite Examples of World-Building.
Is Neil Patrick Harris a Gay Hero?
And speaking of Belinda Carlisle, Pop Quiz: Belinda Carlisle (interview). "In the '80s you used to have drugs sent by FedEx to all your tour stops. Who knew you were so rock 'n' roll?" AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD IN ME JUST DIED.
Kids! Want to pretend to die just like the people on the Titanic?
Re: Comic-Con: Fan Rant: The Post Comic Con Bitching; Are Studios Finally Learning Fanboys are a Waste of Time? (By the way, Sister Girl and her boyfriend had dinner with us last night, and I said, "Hey, how was Comic-Con? I heard the Watchmen panel was great," and he said, "Yeah, I heard that too" [heh], and added, "And they also had a big panel for the new Stephenie Meyer book." "Yeah? I heard the fans were lined up a mile deep for that." And he said, "Pshhh, they were lined up further than that.")
Images: New Terminator Salvation Photo; New Ben Barnes Photos From "Easy Virtue"; New Pics Show What It's Like To Live In The Doomed 'City Of Ember'; 'Igor' Final Poster Premiere; Paul Rudd And Seann William Scott Are ‘Role Models’ And We’ve Got Your First Look; Posters for 'Despereaux' and 'The Express'; First Official Poster for Oliver Stone's W. Biopic.
Trailers and clips: Ensembled 'Winged Creatures' Trailer is Obvious Oscar Bait; New 'Pride and Glory' Trailer; Hathaway Earns Tough Love in 'Rachel Getting Married' Trailer; New 'Mutant Chronicles' Trailer Teaches Crucial NecroMutant-Killing Skills; 'Choke' Red Band Trailer is Back; New Trailer for Andrew Fleming's 'Hamlet 2.'
trailer_spot: What Just Happened, Infinite Playlist, Rachel Getting Married, Pride and Glory, Princess and Frog.
The Dark Knight Kicks The Mummy's Ass - Headed for $480 Million!; ‘Dark Knight’ won’t sink ‘Titanic’ record; Official: Olsen seeks immunity in Ledger probe; Fan Rant: Ledger's Drug Use Has No Place in Oscar Talk; 18 famed clowns -- funny or creepy?; The Truth About Those Dark Knight Sequel Casting Rumors; Christian Bale's X-rated wish; Dark Knight star nominated for award; Batman's voice: Eastwood meets grizzly bear.
‘Mummy 4’ To Re-Locate To Latin America With New Twist, Says Director. Sigh.
‘Breaking Dawn’ Sells 1.3 Million Copies In One Day; Million-selling opening for vampire series finale means that Little, Brown will print 500,000 more copies, "making the total print run 3.7 million ("Related: Does 'Twilight' Suck the Brains Out of Teens?"); Face It: America Loves Vampires and Dead Animal Corpses; Paper Cuts: Stephenie Meyer, Live in Concert; 12 movie/TV vampires with bite. Also: Stephenie Meyer's 'Breaking Dawn' playlist (which includes... Right Said Fred?). Also-also: RPattz "Edward" helps review Breaking Dawn.
(Son of Also: There is a key detail that I was flailing around too hard to notice the first time around when I was recapping Breaking Dawn. I have since added it to the commentary--search for "ETA:" to find it.)
I boozed a little to audition for Doolittle, admits Keira. Wait, wait, did we already know that Daniel Day-Lewis is playing Higgins?
Is ‘Brideshead Revisited’ The Sleeper Hit Of The Summer?
Rumor: Magneto Spin-Off Shooting Next Year?
Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' Gears Up Once Again ... Hopefully This Time It Sticks.
Disney Sets Up 'Monster Attack Network.'
Exclusive: No 'Pablo' for Bardem?
Robert Downey Jr. Talks Iron Man 2, And Second Action Franchise: Sherlock Holmes; Holmes-wreckers?
Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood' Is Headed for the Big Screen!
Lisa Lerner's 'Just Like Beauty' Preps for the Big Screen.
9/11 Conspiracy Movie to Open on 9/11
Kevin Smith Talks About 'Zack and Miri''s MPAA Struggles (and 'Red State').
Why Did ‘The Love Guru’ Bomb? We Ask The Guru Himself, Deepak Chopra.
Roly Ritt: WB Starts Production on 'Scooby-Doo 3: The Beginning.' Kind of sounds like a horror movie, doesn't it?