Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. We’ve got seven new trailers this week, mostly of the artsie-indie breed, though there’s a couple of genre picks in there as well. Check ‘em out after the jump.

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In case we haven’t made enough noise about it already, we’d like to restate our enthusiasm for Sarah Michelle Gellar’s return to television with the CW’s new series Ringer. We already used the show’s twins-in-trouble element as a springboard to look at our favorite twins in popular culture, but the dualism got us thinking about something else, too — specifically, how many other actors have been able to successfully star in more than one show during their career, shrugging off typecasting to embody a whole new, equally welcome persona. As Gellar takes on this feat in 2011, here’s a look back at some of the others who have done it, and done it well. Don’t see your favorite? We know we left some out, so feel free to add more in the comments.

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1. Today marks the last day for retailers to get drink shipments of Four Loko, and after that, stores will have “a reasonable amount of time” to sell their inventory. It’s worth noting that cans are already selling for as much as $8 on Craigslist. Get rich quick scheme, anyone? [via NYDN]

2. After airing only two episodes, A&E has removed The Hasselhoffs from its schedule because the ratings were so horrible. We’re sure this creepy promo ad featuring a baby with chest hair didn’t help. [via Vulture]

3. In case you missed the “Most Fascinating People of the Year” special last night, Gawker.tv has Barbara Walters’ amazing interview with the Jersey Shore cast.

4. Old, but interesting, news: Blondie singer Debbie Harry says that she could have been a victim of serial killer Ted Bundy (who killed over 30 women) after she unknowingly accepted a lift in his car: “He tried to stop me by spinning the car, but it helped me fling myself out. Afterwards I saw him on the news. Ted Bundy.” [via NME]

5. Take a peak inside of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s underground high-tech granite lair and tell us which James Bond villain it reminds you of. [via NYP]

Bonus link: 250 Movie Introductions

Today at Flavorpill, we enjoyed this slideshow of the 10 most brutalized wangs in movie history. We went window shopping in communist Europe. We read Smurf facts. We were excited to see the hospital drama parody “Children’s Hospital” will make the leap from the web to Adult Swim. We weren’t surprised to hear that Bon Jovi is going to be the first person to play the new Giants stadium. That’s going to be some great people watching. We wanted a mobile home thanks to this honest commercial. We debated whether we’ll watch David Hasselhoff’s reality show. We felt stupid for feeling sorry for Lil Wayne — what was he doing with a loaded gun on his tour bus? And finally, we got hungry thanks to this Karamel Sans font. We’re going to bake a cake and try it out.

To say that Lydia Millet’s first book of short stories (after six novels) is merely a tome about human and animal relationships would be a blatant understatement — too Cesar’s Way. In Love in Infant Monkeys, the animal and human (er, superhuman, in the case of Madonna in the opening story, “Sexing the Pheasant”) hierarchy is leveled, with each influencing the other’s life, decisions, and emotions. You meet David Hasselhoff’s dog, the elephant that Thomas Edison electrocuted, and a ferocious Komodo dragon that an Indonesian billionaire bought for Sharon Stone.

After the jump, Millet discusses why she saw Noam Chomsky at the dump, which animal humans resemble the most, and what she’d like to do to a baby spider. Read More »