1. Facebook‘s 2010 privacy policy is longer than the United States Constitution. [via NYT]
2. FOX has picked up a new comedy from Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz that will star Will Arnett and Keri Russell. [via Live Feed]
3. Watch Karl Lagerfeld‘s latest short film for Chanel, Remember Me. It’s like the inside of the fashion designer’s brain exploded. [via UnBeige]
4. Christina Ricci will make her Broadway debut in Time Stands Still when the Tony-nominated show returns on September 23. [via ArtsBeat]
5. Get a sneak peek at Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton (he gained 35 pounds for the part) and Hope Davis as Hillary in HBO’s The Special Relationship, which airs May 29. [via Faded Youth]
Bonus link: Atheism Gets a Much-Needed Rebranding
1. Beating out both Jennifer Garner and Keri Russell, Gossip Girl Blake Lively has been cast as the female lead opposite Ryan Reynolds in The Green Lantern. [via THR]
2. Billy Name, resident photographer of Andy Warhol‘s Factory for seven years, is missing his archive of negatives. [via NYT]
3. How the Jay Leno disaster could ultimately cost NBC more than $200 million. (Also of note: As a result, they’ve just unveiled six new drama pilots.) [via LAT]
4. Sarah Jessica Parker‘s new Bravo reality show Work of Art: The Next Great Artist will feature New York gallery owner Bill Powers, New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz, and curator Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, as judges; China Chow and Simon de Pury will host. [via Variety]
5. Foster Kamer explores the short distance between the branding of mega pop stars and the branding of indie rock bands like Vampire Weekend. [via Gawker]
Bonus link: The New Age Cavemen and the City
The trailer for Tim Blake’s Leaves of Grass, otherwise known as the movie where Edward Norton plays a pair of twins, reminds us a bit of My Name Is Earl. That might be because of the heavy-handed use of Southern accents — though the film is set in Oklahoma. Then there’s the fact that it just looks really odd.
Keri Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, and Susan Surandon also star in this comedy, which tells the story of an Ivy League professor (Norton) who returns to his hometown after he learns that his redneck pot-growing brother (also Norton) is dead. But his twin isn’t dead, he’s just in big trouble with the local drug lord (Dreyfuss).
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