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Francis Ford Copolla puns!!
The AV Club’s Noel Murray takes everyone through his record collection.
The above also has an interview with David Simon.
Beyonce as Etta James. Can’t work.
Here’s an interview with someone whose job is to knock others over.
Jenna Fischer is interviewed… in Playboy.
Danger Mouse and Beck, together at last.
Is the Cloon-dog gettin’ hitched?
Sigh… The Wire is over. Slate dissects the finale.
Pitchfork reviews the Deschanel and Ward record.
The trailer for the De Niro/Pacino double header Righteous Kill is up.
Jamie Lee Curtis discusses the human condition on The Huffington Post.
Obama not too happy with the VP offer from Hillary.
Anthony Lane discusses the remake of Funny Games.
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McCain going to war with New York Times. Not good sign if he wins election…
Napping is good. And healthy. And you only have to take a six-minute sleepy time.
Amy Ryan is interviewed about her work on The Wire and in Gone Baby Gone by The AV Club.
PopSugar UK is giving great coverage on The Brits.
The Guardian reveals the inspiration for Jimmy Smits’ character in the West Wing.
Pitchfork joins our housemate Tom in enjoying the new Dillinger Escape Plan album.
David Fincher is adapting Black Hole, a revered graphic novel by Charles Burns, into a movie.
Deleted scenes from Battlestar Galactica.
Here’s an archive New Yorker piece by Pauline Kael on Blood Simple, the Coens’ debut.
The Lemonheads are releasing a redux version of It’s A Shame About Ray.
Akira may have already been cast in it’s live-action state.
Beyonce is to play Etta James, just in case we didn’t quite realise she’s not that good a singer.
LINK.M.C.A!!!
Slate draws out the first volley of the Radiohead backlash.
Anna off of that OC programme is having a really bad day… she’s in rehab.
Salon waxes lyrical on Mad Men and waxes, well, not very favourably on Friday Night Lights.
The Independent gives a round up of quality recent crime fiction.
The Guardian has Sean O’Hagan lamenting the lack of Robert Wyatt-types and has a strong interview with Neil Gaiman.
The New York Times gives some props to Ben Affleck for his new movie Gone Baby Gone and interview The Office’s undersung Melora Hardin.
The Washington Post proposes a theory on how to work out when someone has truly sold out.
Big-eyed 21 year olds Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen talk about their new designer collection and future plans.
Beyonce is to challenge Google and Apple with… The B Phone!!
Gilmore Girls’ creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has cast SJP in her adaptation of The Late Bloomer’s Revolution for HBO Films.
Ron Howard and another Arrested Development alum are putting together a new show for Fox. Why Fox?????
The Times has an extract from Sudan-born supermodel Alek Wek’s new autobiography. Will be far more interesting than most…
Author Alice Sebold is interviewed by Robert McCrum in this weekends Observer.
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