You know how the Supreme Court ruled the Prop 8 trial couldn't be filmed? A pair of Los Angeles filmmakers have pledged to create filmed reenactments of all 60 hours of the trial based on firsthand reports and transcripts. [marriagetrial.com]
This New York Times profile of 73 year-old Frank Serpico, legendary cop whistleblower: awesome reading. He's old, bearded, Hermit-y, interrogates trespassers with sleds, and still talks about being shot in the face. But also: has a French girlfriend! Dope. [NYT]
Gem of a lead hidden under the headline " ‘(500 Days)’ Director Swings to ‘Spider-Man’ " in the Arts Briefly column of the NYT today: If the next "Spider-Man" movie features an adorable nonlinear plot device, a musical number set to an underappreciated Hall & Oates song or a terrible final line that exhausts all your good will toward the film, now you know why.
From Dave Itzkoff
If Glee won a Golden Globe for the first half of this season, what honors are adequate after Sue MF Sylvester sings "Vogue" on the all-Madonna episode? My gay heart just exploded. Awesome, dishy spoilers ahoy.
N. R. Kleinfield's piece about laundromats in today's Times NY/Region section is pretty great, fun reading. And also, hysterically, fairly poetic. First two lines: "At the laundromat, irregular things happen. People square off over washers - mine; no, mine." [NYT]
Have you seen this new Domino's ad campaign where they acknowledge how terrible their pizza is? It's good. I don't buy the bit about how the pizza's better now. But the part about their pizza being crap is movingly accurate.
Fox has just signed on for the second act of our favorite musical misfits saga. Oh happy day! The show is also going to audition amateurs for new roles on the show. Get those karaoke tracks ready, show choir dorks.
Tony Judt's never been one to stand down. The Jewish, British, leftist historian and professor who's been called a self-hating antisemitic terrorist-sympathizer anda liberal-hater isn't one to back down. Ravaged by Lou Gehrig's disease, he's not pussying out, either.
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Big Love — HBO's beguilingly wonderful melodrama about a family living on the fringe — returns for its fourth season on Sunday night. You really should watch it. If you initially wrote it off as unsympathetic, give it another chance.
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1990s-style slackerdom is sweeping the Islamic world! There's a movie called Slackistan, which is exactly what it sounds like, and Kabul has its own indie-rock band. Together, we're convinced our best defense against radical Islam is withdrawn, aimless, self-involved sloth.
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ABC updated their "Everything You Need to Know about Lost in 8:15" video. A good refresher for devotees, but novices will be, well, completely lost. Good, this final season is only for full-fledged fans! Is it February 2 yet?
Yeah, all you bitches paid good money to see Avatar this weekend, but what about the people who toil to bootleg the movie so other can see it for cheap. Will you give them your money? Or your thanks?
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The Situation, Snooki, and DJ Paulie Dialogue took time out from Jersey Shore's global domination to make a video. The fiction is just as good as the real thing, but the beast has awoken. Updated. More »
Read: this great piece on how Design Within Reach—who sell shiny pretty expensive tables and chairs—got popular and fell from grace, all while keeping their headache-inducing name. IT'S NOT WITHIN REACH IF I CAN'T AFFORD IT. Ugh. [FastCompany]
When we saw the first preview for Tim Burton's highly-anticipated adaptation of the children's classic, we were a bit underwhelmed. A new trailer is out and we're grinning like a Chesire Cat on LSD. Finally, he got it right.
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Commenters on Reddit.com banded together to create the largest secret santa gift exchange ever attempted, with 5,000 global participants, three times the prior world record. Even more amazing, the gifts were not entirely terrible!
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