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What’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

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Today at Flavorpill, we were bowled over by our discovery of That’s What Bea Said — a collection of her standalone quotes from The Golden Girls. We wished that someone would buy us this origami lessons tee. We liked the idea of Conan O’Brien’s new TV show coming on as early as 7 p.m. — we fall asleep pretty early. We were shocked by reports that Macy’s sold 72,000 bottles of Beyonce’s fragrance, Heat, in one hour. We loved the looks of this Joey Potter vs. Sookie Stackhouse face off in The Romantics — but does it really have to be over boring old Josh Duhamel? We booked our flights to Chicago for what’s being deemed as the Eames sale of the century. We read New York Press film critic Armond White’s highly-anticipated review of Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg. Spoiler alert: He hated it. And finally, we ended our day by staring at alpacas. Now it’s time to go drink some green beer.

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District 9 Causes Film Critic Battle Royale

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We have a weird obsession with Roger Ebert that’s hard to explain. Maybe it was all of those guest appearances on Sesame Street with Siskel. We only bring it up because he’s at the center of a major internet brouhaha involving a movie critic named Armond White and a negative review of District 9. White, a critic for the New York Press, is known as a troll in the film world. He has hated every single movie in the Harry Potter and Pixar franchise. He liked Land of the Lost. Hated All the Real Girls; loved The Nanny Diaries. When it came time to review District 9 — which at that point had 49 positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes — you can guess which way he went. Read More »

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