• Travel the circle of life with Scanner, sans any
singing lions. The Scanner crew bring you the latest in sperm (ooh,
science!) and birth (Helena
Bonham Carter and Tim
Burton celebrate the birth of their daughter, we can only imagine the Goth
wonderland of the nursery), to marriage (Pam
Anderson) and divorce (Pam
Anderson), to passings (goodbye
Dan Folgerberg: “Longer than there've
been stars up in the heavens/ I've been in love with you.”)
Plus: Jessica
Simpson may go nude to “save” her “acting career.” Tim
McGraw may star in a movie with Jon
Favreau. Mitt
Romney gets a horse-face mask; his wife gets excited. The Spice
Girls get armpit
bulge. And a 22-year-old Canadian man gets an $83,000 cell phone bill after
connecting his phone to his computer to use as a modem. We can only hope he
also got some sweet-ass porn.
• Screengrab is
in lurve with the new Batman Dark
Knight trailer. We have to
admit, Heath
Ledger is looking pretty bad-ass. And our holy shit moment: Maggie
Gyllenhaal is the love interest. She beats
Katie Holmes, any day.
Also: Oliver
Stone pisses off Iran.
Phil Nugent takes a look at Slate’s “overlooked
Christmas movies,” including Yogi's
First Christmas ("A surprisingly touching ode to ursine
innocence"), as well as Stalin’s love/hate affair with John
Wayne. Though I think him sending the KGB to California to assassinate him veers firmly
into the “hate” side of things…
• And Oliver over at the Nerve Video
Blog learns that the Bible
is weirder than animated viral video…and throws in his two, super-excited
cents for the new
Batman trailer. As well as Google and its spell-check function. Go “Gyllenhaal” go.
—
Nicole Ankowski
