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Web

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

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Today at Flavorpill, we dreamed about the day Manhattan will have a vertical farm. (We hope it will look like this!) We scoped out Obama’s beach reads (yay Lush Life!) and then we watched people reading in public. We wondered if girls will try to pretend lace-up leggings are pants, too. We were too short to get on board the Robin Williams roller coaster. We fell in love with Must Pop Words. We learned firsthand from Julie Powell what Julie & Julia got wrong. We got excited for the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. We watched as American Apparel hit a new low — selling factory scraps. We learned to iPhones can ruin lives. And finally, we wondered if one day, robot marriage will be legal. (We’re looking at you, Rosie.)

Film

August Turns Crucial for Hollywood Blockbusters

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An article in today’s New York Times explains that film studios usually reserve August for difficult movies that might not do so well if they were released, say, a week after Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Which makes sense. But because box office sales are down this summer, some of these tricky August releases are shouldering more weight than anyone — the studios, producers, or directors — expected or hoped. After the jump we preview five of the month’s biggest releases and rank them according to buzz and box-office potential. There may still be some surprises, a la The Hangover, in store for us this summer. Read More »

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