question of the day: Who is the entertainment person of the year for 2012?
Please don’t say Honey Boo Boo or I will have to kill myself.
Time
the Game of Thrones spoof of that Time cover that makes me go ewwwww (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
how Biff from Back to the Future deals with fans (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2nd trailer, plus notes from a footage reveal)
What we see here, it seems to me, is a blockbuster made more for a global audience than a solely U.S. one…
question of the weekend: Are women people?
The fact that the question has to be asked suggests that the answer is No, probably not…
on the impossibility of a female gaze: Richard Corliss on ‘Immortals’
All those buff, nearly naked, totally gorgeous guys in Immortals? Totally gay!
must reads: “Why renters and pirates watch such different movies”
I thought this was gonna be about how different versions of individual movies appear in legitimate and illegitimate content streams. But, no, it’s even better…
question of the day: Are the Smurfs cryptofascists?
I mean, c’mon: Smurf society is the archetype of a totalitarian utopia marked by Stalinism and Nazism. Isn’t it?
dodging the Egypt Internet crackdown; the Oscar race is already over; is Amazon going all out with unlimited streaming?; more: leftover links
Plus: Kelsey Grammer’s marriage ruined by Fox News; Wikileaks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize; why so few women writers at Wikipedia and major magazines?; more…
question of the day: Is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg really the Person of the Year 2010?
In a busy news year with lots of major stories impacting the world — from the BP spill to Wikileaks to Afghanistan officially becoming the longest war in American history — does Time’s choice make sense?
