Robert Pattinson, descendant of Dracula; Daniel Radcliffe heads to the Western Front; Weird Al to take on Lady Gaga?: more

by MaryAnn Johanson
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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:
Tom Cruise: New $100 Mil Film Has No US Premiere

Why TV criticism is winning out over film criticism.

How Rolling Stone Won The News Cycle And Lost The Story

Lithgow and Pinto Join Franco in ‘Rise of the Apes’ Film

An Open Letter to Ariana Huffington: Pay your fucking writers

Freelance Journalists Suffering in Second Wave of News Media Collapse

YouTube Wins Case Against Viacom

Is a multiplex full of family films the future of moviegoing?

Vatican endorses “The Blues Brothers”

The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) [by Errol Morris]

Daniel Radcliffe To Star In ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’

Robert Pattinson Related To Real Dracula, Vlad The Impaler

Don’t Panic: Why moving the Oscars to January could work

Weird Al mum on Gaga parody

Obama Makes Adorable Mistake, Calls It “Twitters”

Unhappy Meals: McDonald’s to be sued for ‘enticing children with toys’

The 20 most anticipated sci-fi movies of 2011

Here’s how the original Star Wars poster was made

Trip to FermiLab Teaches Children Not All Scientists Are Beaker-Toting Male Weirdos

Defining a flop is hard these days

‘Jersey Shore’ Dudes Not Annoyed After Inadvertently Posing for Village Voice ‘Queer’ Issue Cover

Neil Gaiman says closing libraries would be ‘a terrible mistake’

Why the hatred for Jaden Smith? It’s the ugly underside of fan worship

‘Toy Story 3’ and the Best Scene of the Summer

Galleries and museums face summer of protest over BP arts sponsorship

The Politico Opens the Kimono. And then Pretends it Never Happened. [or, the real reason the Rolling Stone story on Stan McChrystal is so important]

Instructive Critic Story

Cody and the critical generation gap

Female Characters In Toy Story Don’t Get Much Play

‘Mad Men’: Threads of the Story

The Daily Show’s Woman Problem

5 Unconvincing Excuses For Daily Show Sexism

Leave Miley’s Crotch Alone

Megan Fox: Where Does She Go From Here?

La. Police Doing BP’s Dirty Work [Video]

Hollywood faces new piracy threat

How has the culture of TV (and TV-watching) changed?

iPads Are Billed as a Green Gadget, But There’s a Not-So-Eco Catch

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