On a recent episode of his Savage Love podcast, Dan Savage indulged in what has become a Yuletide tradition: railing against Christmas-themed erotica. His implicit objection to Santa-hatted self-pics and the like is simple enough to understand; he thinks Christmas just isn’t sexy. He’s not alone, and most of these Sex Scrooges are right — there’s nothing inherently libidinous about a holiday centered on tree ornamentation, elf labor, and Jesus. But a handful of films have dared to forge an alliance between Christmastime and Sexytime. … Read More
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Proving that her love of gift giving has no bounds, Oprah bestowed Thursday night’s audience of The Daily Show with free flights to DC for Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity. She’ll also be paying for their hotels, the lucky bastards. [via THR]
2. On a related note, NPR has decided… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. In case you missed it before, last night The Daily Show ran a rather timely (and possibly NSFW) clip of Isabella Rossellini as a bedbug from her educational Green Porno series. [via Vulture]
2. Angelina Jolie will make her debut as both a director and screenwriter for an upcoming romantic drama… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Sylvester Stallone‘s action flick The Expendables topped the weekend box office, raking in $35 million. Meanwhile, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World only took in $10.5 million. [via MTV]
2. What Arcade Fire‘s mainstream success on indie label Merge means for record labels [via New Yorker]
3. Neil Patrick Harris… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Last night, Conan O’Brien and Jack White recorded a live album together at Third Man Records. [via Twenty Four Bit]
2. Get your wallets out, Twihards: The final Twilight book, Breaking Dawn, will be filmed in two parts. [via Vulture]
3. A Cleopatra biopic is in the works, and Angelina… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. David Goyer and Jonah Nolan have started working on a script for their follow up to The Dark Knight. [via
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What’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we learned how Andy Samberg (or at least a guy who looks a lot like him) writes his digital shorts. We relived the 20 moments that defined The Simpsons. We watched Brad and Angelina break up over and over and over again. We yearned for a present world with… Read More
Rate-a-Trailer: Sexy Angelina Jolie Stars in Salt
The trailer for Angelina Jolie’s crime thriller Salt hit the interwebs yesterday afternoon. In it Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer accused by a defector of being a Russian spy with a plot to kill the president. She flees the scene, changes her hair color, and must prove her innocence before all traces of her existence are eliminated “powerful forces.” Liev Schreiber plays her friend/supervisor. Watch the trailer after the jump and check out our screen grabs of our favorite Angie looks. Good god this woman is… Read More
What’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we met what’s probably Earth’s new ocean. We learned how to use an apostrophe. We yearned for the ’90s. We were depressed by the weak contenders in the Oscar race for best original screenplay — but rather glad to hear that Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. won’t be tag teaming the hosting duties. We downloaded Passion Pit’s Max Tundra remix. We were frightened by the news that A&E wants Kirstie Alley for a new docuseries about her weight struggles. We loved the idea of the Garbage Pin Project — “five tiny plastic bags, 90 international artists display their interpretation of value versus waste.” We watched the Russian trailer for Angelina Jolie’s latest, Salt. And finally, we giggled over Chris Brown’s tweeted defense of his new album cover. it’s called… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Cultural Stories
1. Angelina Jolie tops Oprah on the Forbes Celebrity 100 power list. [via Forbes]
2. Now that they’ve got you hooked, Hulu wants to start charging you for all of those Arrested Development episodes you’ve been watching. We bet Rupert Murdoch is behind this. [via Gawker]
3. Attention Bjork fans: “In… Read More
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