Rooney Mara is the American girl with the dragon tattoo; Net neutrality's swan song; is George Lucas an asshole?; more: leftover links

Sight unseen, why is my first thought about Harry Potter condoms is that they'll come in lots of different flavors?

Someone at the BBC thinks more people will watch Mad Men if it's two months late rather than six months late? Dream on! In the UK, if you're watching an American TV show, either you're keeping up with the first-run watchers via that Evil Internet and talking about it via that same medium, or you're waiting until the official broadcast so that you can talk to your mates about it. Nobody's making the choice between the two based on how long the delay is; they're making it based on how they like to talk about the show. I don't believe that this shift will make any difference at all.

Sight unseen, why is my first thought about Harry Potter condoms is that they'll come in lots of different flavors?

Bertie Botts' Every-Flavor Condoms?

Well, George Lucas may or may not be an asshole, but not because of that deleted scene. As someone pointed out on the linked site, that scene was indeed scored by John Williams at the time - that music cue has been included in several releases of the ROTJ soundtrack over the years, so something must have been there for him to score.

I suppose it's possible that they never shot the Hamill portion and inserted some fakery there -- but it's also possible that Mark Hamill just doesn't have a perfect memory of everything he did over 25 years ago. Why would anyone expect him to?

Occam's razor is such a handy tool.