Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But there’s no reason to let this stuff go to waste: I can still share it with you, for your amusement, and start the new week with a clean slate.
Herewith this week’s leftover links, in no particular order:
Pilgrimage to Middle Earth
You Are What You Watch, Market Data Suggest
The King’s Speech leads nominations for British Independent Film Awards
‘Winter’s Bone’ star Lawrence leaps to ‘X-Men’
TheTimes.co.uk Readership Goes From 20 Million a Month to 105,000 After Pay Wall
Cable subscribers flee, but is Internet to blame?
Costly ‘Spider-Man’ Can’t Get Off the Ground
and a leftover photo I took this week on West 42nd Street:
Kate Nash: ‘Real sexiness is about art, mystery and intelligence’
Will This Year’s Best Actress Oscar Be a Celebrity Death Match? (Yes.)
Tom Sutcliffe: Is sentimentality an artistic crime?
“Secretariat” Isn’t Hollywood’s Only Secretly Conservative Blockbuster
The mystery of Stephen Fry and the vanishing Harry Potter tweets
Stephen Fry uses Twitter to voice fury over newspaper article
Stephen Fry returns to Twitter after row over claim that women don’t like sex
Researchers Find Key to the Hipster Worldview: Denying Hipsterdom While Consuming “Indie” Products
James Franco Set to Put the Drama Back into Three’s Company
Kevin Smith is Trashing Movie Critics Again
“For Colored Girls”: Tyler Perry’s misunderstood genius