trailer break: ‘The Fighter’
Starring Mark Wahlberg as Rocky and Amy Adams as Adrian.
question of the day: Will James Franco and Anne Hathaway reinvigorate the Oscar ceremony, or is the choice of them as hosts a desperate ploy to get more people to watch?
“James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons— fresh, exciting and multi-talented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on February 27.” Or so the Academy would like us to think…
I am ABC News’ go-to girl for Oscar predictions…
…at least in this piece just up over at ABC News’ Web site, where I get to be all experty and stuff. Enjoy.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Cybermen invade London
It was a stunt to promote the new Doctor Who Experience, a sort of interactive theater thingie opening in February… which means I’ll be able to check it out in person.
trailer break: ‘The Tempest’
Oh, man, I really hope this is a great as it looks…
question of the day: What is your favorite Leslie Nielsen bit?
Just Airplane and Police Squad! alone provide a trove of hilariously deadpan moments. Surely, Nielsen will be missed.
watch it: “Farmville Rap – Point Blank”
I admit that I’m a little bit addicted to Farmville on Facebook. So I found this particularly amusing.
Mark Wahlberg admits ‘The Happening’ was terrible; Billy Bob Thornton says Hollywood is terrible; a female Old Spice Man spoof; more: leftover links
Plus: first-grader teased over her Star Wars water bottle; journalistic ethics getting a workout; saga of a film critic banned from screenings who got her buddies at The New York Times to intervene; more…
a few thoughts on ‘The Walking Dead’: “Vatos”
Once again, the logic of this show continues to elude me. Why is everyone upset at the hole-digging guy digging his holes at the edge of the camp? Why not let him dig his holes? Who is he hurting?
question of the weekend: Did you ever do something so stupid/crazy/memorable that you will never live it down among your friends and/or family?
When I was very little — like, so little I was still sitting in a high chair when this happened — I peeled my finger with a vegetable peeler, apparently just to see what would happen. I’m told I didn’t start to scream until my mother and grandmother started screaming…
