The Sundance Film Festival is underway, and Slashfilm made the smart decision to not only cover the festival, but also explain why they cover it by reminding folks of some of the movies that have been seen there for the first time.
The Culture Monster blog at the L.A. Times considers news that HBO Films is planning a biopic on director Bob Fosse and concludes that there doesn't need to be one, since Fosse already made All The Jazz. Presumably, the response to this would be that a person is not necessarily the best candidate to make a fully developed movie that is (slightly fictionalized but still) about himself.
Not all of the ideas Cinematical presents for dealing with a depression are particularly realistic, but any list that can include both Bonnie And Clyde and Annie is okay with me.
At ESPN, Jim Caple runs down the logos of Major League Baseball and ranks them in order from 1 to 30. Now, it seems to me that the Phillies logo is no more "crowded" than the Mets logo, Jim Caple, but we've all got our opinions. (Via AdFreak.)
The latest version of A Star Is Born may come from Clint Eastwood and star Beyonce. Not a joke!
At the London Olympics in 2012, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre will present 38 Shakespeare plays in 38 different languages. I look forward to Amlet-hay.
If you saw the return of NBC's Parks & Recreation last night and are dying to see the rest of the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness (and why wouldn't you be?), you can see the whole thing here. (via Entertainment Weekly)
And finally: if you heard that story floating around about George Lucas telling Seth Rogen that he believed the world would end in 2012, and if you thought, "You know, that sounds less than kosher and like something Lucas is later going to say is hooey," then you reacted just as I did. Sure enough, Lucas says it's hooey, and he was joking.
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