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[cleolinda]

So I get up this morning to discover that Scout has thrown up all over the kitchen--and I do mean all over--because he managed to eat a napkin or something last night. How's your Friday the 13th?

Friday 13th not more unlucky, study shows.

NBC's Tim Russert dies of apparent heart attack. And yet somehow, Bill O'Reilly is allowed to continue walking the earth. Which is a terrible thing to say, and I stand by it completely.

Tainted tomatoes sicken 228 in 23 states.

John Scalzi unpacks the offensive subtext of Fox News referring to Obama's "baby mama."

Yahoo, Google sign deal; Microsoft talks halt.

Hey, kids, your pals are dead — not!

A brief history of the unicorn. On Yahoo News, no less.

2,000-year-old seed revives species.

Ma baloney haz a furst name… is nom nom nom nom nom.

Study: Pot potency at 30-year high. ... so to speak.

A Little Family Spat Plays Itself Out in the Amazon Reviews.

Bezos: Competition Right and Good, When Amazon's Not #1?

Tom Cruise Proves Sanity By Calling Shrink Nazi; Dr. Drew: I Meant No Harm to Tom Cruise.

Entertainment Weekly talks to Coldplay:

EW: Speaking of getting flack for being in Coldplay, how did you guys feel being on the receiving end of jokes, like the classic ''know how I know you're gay?'' line from The 40 Year-Old Virgin ?

CHRIS MARTIN, vocalist/keyboards/guitar: I think that's kind of something to be proud of. I've never been anything but delighted by that.

GUY BERRYMAN, bassist: You've got to laugh. I don't particularly see it as derogatory, I thought it was funny.

And then Chris Martin professes his love for Limp Bizkit (EW: "I don't even know how to respond to that...").

Potential Strike Already Affecting Movies and TV.

Images: Star Wars - The Clone Wars; Watchmen; 'Sixty Six' Poster Premiere; WALL-E Has the Cutest Fetishes; The Time Traveler's Wife; Public Enemies; 'Defiance' Poster Shows Daniel Craig's Promising Future. I know I linked a different story on the poster yesterday, but I just liked this writeup: "This image of Daniel Craig convinces me that he will either be the next Steve McQueen or the leader of an army of the undead. It could really go either way."

Trailers and clips: Must Watch: Spike Lee's 'Miracle at St. Anna' Trailer; 'Punisher: War Zone Teaser' Trailer Hits; 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' Trailer (didn't this already appear online?); Teasers for Alexandre Aja's 'Mirrors.'

Why Is Optimus Prime Getting Religion? [Morning Spoilers] Other spoilers: Clips from 'The Dark Knight,' 'Hancock,' and the next Doctor Who; a shot of Shirley Manson (!) on the set of 'The Sarah Connor Chronicles'; and Jorge Garcia speculates on what happens to Hurley next on Lost.

'Dawn Treader' to Film in Argentina?

Everything you need to know about "The Happening" so you don't have to see it; Shyamalan: "'The Happening' is Totally Meant to be Kind of Bad. Did I Not Mention That?'

Publicity-Averse Ed Norton Reveals Previously Unknown Sense Of Humor In 'Hulk' Short; Interview: Tim Roth; Liv Tyler: 'Hulk' a big surprise; 10 Must-Read Stories For 'The Incredible Hulk'; ‘Hulk’ Director Wonders: Is ‘1602′ Or ‘World War Hulk’ The Future Of Superhero Movies?

Look, Just Make Up Your Minds Already: Is Cap In Hulk Or Not?

Robert Downey, Jr. to be Sherlock Holmes? I love RDJ, but... I am not entirely sure I can endorse this concept.

An Update From the 'Iron Man 2' Battlefield.

Rumor: Marvel Wants Leonardo DiCaprio as Captain America?

The Fourth 'Dark Knight' TV Spot; Alternate Dark Knight Trailer, Gotham Tonight Clip; Christian Bale in Arena magazine; Giorgio Armani wants you to know that they dress Bruce Wayne.

"Wanted": Casting the Right Ensemble (with pics); Check out an exclusive action sequence from 'Wanted.'

James McAvoy denies hobbiting. : (

Quantum of Solace Featurette: Executive Producer Callum McDougall; Leona Lewis For Bond theme?

More X-Files Movies On The Way? AUGH WARN ME NEXT TIME BEFORE YOU GO BLOODY WITH THE EYES.

Weinsteins Set a Release Pattern for 'The Road.'

Christopher Eccleston Joins 'Amelia.'

Cinematical exclusive: 'Twilight' E-Card Widget.

'Get Smart' Beats 'Watchmen' to DVD Stunt Marketing.

First Look at Jason's 'Friday the 13th' Mask (Hint: It's a Hockey Mask!).

Remake of 1983's 'My Tutor' Coming.

'I Dream of Jeannie' Finally Has a Suitable Screenplay.

Jack Black Leaves 'Man-Witch.' There's a joke about Manwiches in there that I can't quite get to work out right.

Warner Bros. Sets Fantasy in 'Central Park.'

Universal Takes Up 'Dragonology.'

Train Will Promote 'City of Ember.'

Exclusive: Perlman, Jones and Goss on 'Hellboy II.'

Report: Studio Unaware Of Production Shingle's Completely Stupid Tiger Movie.

Press Release of the Week: Starz invites you to experience 'I Know Who Killed Me,' complete with a list of negative blurbs and Razzies won. Well... you gotta go with your strengths, I guess.

Comments

[preciosatt.livejournal.com]

I'm still in shock about TR. My heart goes out to his family. Sunday's gonna be so hard on them.

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

And yet somehow, Bill O'Reilly is allowed to continue walking the earth. Which is a terrible thing to say, and I stand by it completely.

ITA. Tim was awesome. ;-;

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

NBC's Tim Russert dies of apparent heart attack. And yet somehow, Bill O'Reilly is allowed to continue walking the earth. Which is a terrible thing to say, and I stand by it completely.

As do I. I'll be missing Tim in November. I'll be missing Bill for the rest of my life, because my aim is bad. :P

[delle.livejournal.com]

I'm in shock. Tim Russert was the ONLY journalist that could a. explain politics to me and b. make me care about politics. What a tragic loss.

he just returned from a trip to Italy with his family, to celebrate his son graduating college. ::weeps::

Bill O'Reilly... I have no words to explain how much I detest that loathsome piece of skin.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Ack, the Time Traveler's Wife link is messed up!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Fixed--I keep forgetting that Trashionista does their links weird.

[laerwen.livejournal.com]

And yet somehow, Bill O'Reilly is allowed to continue walking the earth. Which is a terrible thing to say, and I stand by it completely.

A-fucking-men, woman. :(

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Tim Russert is one of our hometown boys -- well, said hometown is forty-five minutes down the Thruway, but still. It's Western New York. It all counts.

He was honest, true, brilliant, and steadfast. We will miss him dearly.

[eta: and you know? I bet Keith Olbermann is feeling kind of like you right now. I watched his coverage -- man was on the verge of tears the entire time. That's one of his close friends gone, and Bill-O doesn't feel so much as a twinge of angina. Hellfire.]

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

NBC's Tim Russert dies of apparent heart attack. And yet somehow, Bill O'Reilly is allowed to continue walking the earth. Which is a terrible thing to say, and I stand by it completely.

"Sometimes you throw a lightning bolt and you miss." - God.
"Sometimes you accidently hit someone's elbow." - Satan.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

"They were traumatized, but we wanted them to be traumatized," said guidance counselor Lori Tauber

Wow. So they're letting just anyone be guidance counselors, then? I thought the idea of a counselor mandated avoiding trauma and managing it if inevitable, not using it as a tool -- or a cudgel, in this case.

And very yes on Russert/O'Reilly. Russert's contributions to American political discussion were invaluable. O'Reilly's greatest contribution is that he exhales carbon dioxide, which is needed by plants to survive.

[raynala.livejournal.com]

My Friday the 13th is going similarly. Blarrrgh. Only 4 more hours of it, here!

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

It's unbelievable to me that guidance counselors would be traumatizing their students. If I were a parent of one of those kids, all kinds of bad things would have happened. I kind of really hope that those teachers who played along get penalized for it. It's a disgusting prank to pull, whatever the end result. You don't mess with people's heads like that.

[thelittlebudgie.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God. The hoax-deaths thing is awful. Students are supposed to be able to trust their teachers and guidance counsellors. Purposely screwing with them like that is not going to do any good for them. What's going to happen if someone actually does die? Half the kids sure as hell won't believe them. I wouldn't, and then I'd resent them even more for it when it turned out one of my classmates actually was dead.

[animejosse.livejournal.com]

The worst thing for me was that some people agreed with the method. Uh, yeah, let's ruin the students' trust in authority and make them go through emotional distress for something that's probably not going to work anyway because ONE person might decide not to drive drunk. For a month :/

[dives.livejournal.com]

awpjfeWPIJpjwifhihndapnjafs I REALLY cannot convey how wondefully surprised/delighted I am that Sixty Six is coming out in the US.



REALLY EXCITED, okay.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

I endorse RDJ doing anything he wants to do as long as it's available on a theater screen near me.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

"And yet somehow, Bill O'Reilly is allowed to continue walking the earth."

And Rush Limbaugh. The universe is twisted.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

"jack black leaves manwich, runs to the arms of burrito"
"jack black leaves manwich, producers hoping will ferrell feeling peckish"

I'm picturing a tabloid photo, possibly involving a corndog and implications of homosexuality because of the corn dog.

[bitchola.livejournal.com]

As awful as the scare tactics were for those kids, current anti-DWI education clearly isn't enough. I'm an EMT and I just got back about 30 minutes ago from a major head-on collision; apparently, the second driver was drunk. This isn't the first time we've had to cut a someone out of a car due to drunk driving, and it won't be the last.

A lot of the time people walk away from a drunk driving accident with no injuries, and it doesn't prevent them from doing it again. In terms of ways to communicate the dangers to students, the best I ever saw was an assembly we had when we were spoken to by a man who had driven drunk as a teenager, crashed into a tree, and now is paralyzed (if I remember correctly) from the waist down and has a speech impediment caused by brain injury. It was probably the one time I've ever seen an auditorium full of high school students give their full attention, largely because seeing the consequences is a helluva lot more moving than just hearing them. I don't know if practically traumatizing the kids was the right thing to do, but hopefully it will deter a few more students from drinking and driving.

Oh hell no

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

Rumor: Marvel Wants Leonardo DiCaprio as Captain America?

WHAT SHIT IS THIS?

[trailer-spot.livejournal.com]

re Benjamin Button trailer: To my knowledge there isn't yet an official version available online. There's been a Spanish version floating around but the studio is still trying to purge all available English versions online that came from whatever source (which were crappy anway). There's been talk there will be a hi-def version available over the weekend. I believe it when I see it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Huh, okay. I think what confused me was that I actually saw a trailer in the theater--usually they'll have them online in that case.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

David Tennant is committed to WHO for 2009 at least. I hope he stays on- he's the best Doctor since Tom Baker...

More X FILES? Krycek better pop up in the *next* one...

FRIDAY THE 13TH: What? Not only is Jason the killer isntead of Ma Voorhees, but he has the hockey mask from the get go? Damn you, reeeemakes!

And yet somehow, Bill O'Reilly is allowed to continue walking the earth. Which is a terrible thing to say, and I stand by it completely. A Faustian deal is the only explanation for him. And for Martin Lawrence...

[animejosse.livejournal.com]

"Hey, kids, your pals are dead — not!" *facepalms* Way to make those kids not listen to authorities any more. Where they too cheap to bring in a person who's either 1. lost a relative or friend in a car accident or 2. been in one him/herself? Those tends to be a hell lot more effective than scare tactics.

Thank god for that "The Happening"-list, I was pretty disappointed when I heard about the spoilers (and the senseless way people killed themselves).

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

RDJ as Sherlock Holmes? It will only work if he can rock that hat and sport an entirely know-it-all English accent.

Also voting for Daniel Craig to take the Next Steve McQueen path because Craig is McQueen reincarnated. I firmly believe this.

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

NBC's Tim Russert dies of apparent heart attack. And yet somehow, Bill O'Reilly is allowed to continue walking the earth. Which is a terrible thing to say, and I stand by it completely.

But I bet I know which one of them is gonna be more surprised when they get where-ever they're going. *enjoys scant comfort, misses TR some more*

[scarletsherlock.livejournal.com]

RDJ might make a decent young Moriarty. As for Holmes--I can't see it, at all.

Daniel Craig needs to play Steve McQueen, like, tomorrow.

[kilted.livejournal.com]

I'm so with you on the Tim Russet thing. He'll be missed. O'Reilly could really just do us all a favor a jump off a cliff.

That hoax thing is TERRIBLE. I mean, we had something like that at our school, but it was called the Mock Crash, and they did up some of the kids from S.A.D.D. in some pretty gruesome make-up and had their parents there and yeah, people cried, but we knew it wasn't real and it still got the point across. UGH.

I can totally see Daniel Craig being the next Steve McQueen... hmm.

"I wanted it to be a fantastic, fun B-movie," Shyamalan told Reuters in a recent interview about the eighth film he has written and directed. "The No. 1 thing is I want people to say: 'That was a really fun B-movie.'"
Who the hell is going to say that after sitting through another one of his grand disappointments? Ugh. Every time I did my checks of The Happening, I couldn't help but laugh at Mark Walberg's character, who just seemed sort of "What? Like, no way!" about everything. Lame.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, to put an even finer point on it, who the hell is going to say that after watching people kill themselves for an hour?

[kilted.livejournal.com]

Uuuugh, yes. I was unfortunate enough to see a bunch of those death scenes while walking past the theatre. I would NOT describe it as a "fun B movie". Golly gee, let's watch a hour and a half of horrible suicides! Sounds like a good old time! *rolls eyes*

[animejosse.livejournal.com]

From what I heard, those suicedes seemed so unnecessarily gory. It's one thing to have people shot themselves if there's a gun nearby, it's another to go through the trouble of starting a lawnmower and lay in front of it. Surely I can't be the only one thinking it's more effective to NOT show the killings onscreen? (Besides, gore makes me ill.)

Hell, why have the suicide thing at all and not just let people die at once? Surely that's scarier.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

next week:
teacher: "HEY KIDS, YOUR MOM JUST GOT RAPED AND YOUR DAD HAS CANCER!"
kids: "AHHH OMG WTF AOL BBQ"
teacher: "JUST KIDDING! RESPECT WOMEN AND DON'T SMOKE!"

Tony's Linkspam.

[blinkliz.livejournal.com]

So... keep an eye out for stories about the following:

- Stephen Sondheim not showing up for his own LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.

- In the Heights winner awkwardly *rapping* his acceptance speech.

- Patti LuPone's diva moment as she won for Best Actress in a Musical.

^ All crazy.

Re: Tony's Linkspam.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow.