Today at Flavorpill, we learned about one young man’s journey to live “Amish-style” for 90 days. We read about Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut, which will feature Scarlett Johansson. We enjoyed this guide to literary Tumblrs. We followed the adventures of the Devil. We voted for Batman. We listened to what Feminist Frequency had to say about the Lego Friends line of toys targeted to girls. We wanted to talk to all the guys at the male cat lovers meetup. We learned why parsley deserves to be more than just a garnish. We appreciated this call for more “slow reading.” We said happy birthday to Alejandro Jodorowsky. We loved this awesomely designed heart-shaped utensil. And finally, we tried to imagine what David Lynch’s new painting Duckman’s Injury looked like … and then we found out why he loves ducks so much.
Movie mavens IMDb have revealed their top ten most-viewed/searched-for stars, movies, TV shows, and anticipated in-production titles over the past decade. The lists celebrates ten years of the company’s industry database IMDb Pro and offers some surprising — and not so shocking — looks at trends centering on our film tastes. The Dark Knight Rises grabbed a number one spot as most-anticipated project, which shouldn’t be news to you, but the number two film of the past ten years — Donnie Darko — was a bit of a surprise.
We zeroed in on the top stars list and provided some subliminal insight into where movie audiences’ minds must have been for the last decade. Give us your explanations below after you check out the list past the break.
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Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!
This week, on Go Fug Yourself, Charlize Theron was a hot, surprise surprise, in large part because of her Charlizeness. Serena Williams: also hot. So was Jessica Simpson (no, seriously!). Something must be going around. In other news, Meryl Streep blew our minds by hanging out with some Real Housewives, China Chow sported a festive luau poncho, Kate Beckinsale went out in what looked like granny panties, and Piper Perabo’s hair looked like something out of Star Trek married to a pastry. Finally, we decided that someone at Cosmo must really hate ScarJo — and her boobs. Can anyone explain what’s happening on this cover and why?
Today at Flavorpill, we met a woman who is truly terrified by kittens. We watched an all-too-brief preview of the Ab Fab holiday special. We got an interesting look at Tom McCarthy’s computer desktop as part of a new series from The Guardian. We wanted to get our hands on one of these grown-up advent calendars for design dorks. We were surprised to find out how dramatic living in an IKEA catalog can be. We imagined what it would have been like to have Andre the Giant as a head warmer. We wished that we’d known Melissa McCarthy back when she wore turtlenecks as harem pants in high school. We hoped that the new street skiing trend never really catches on. We were surprisingly sad that we’ll never get to wear Hunger Games-inspired nail polish — even if the colors did have awful names like “Baker’s Son” and “Coal-Hearted.” We listened to Scarlett Johansson duet with Dean Martin on “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” We couldn’t believe that the photos on this camera were still intact after spending a year floating around the ocean floor. We wanted to travel somewhere by train. And finally, we saw what Ghostbusters might have looked like as a Dr. Seuss book. Adorable!
1. Scarlett Johansson plans to make her full-length directorial debut with Summer Crossing, an adaptation of Truman Capote’s lost novella. The story, which is set in post-World War II New York City, follows “an 18-year-old girl breaking free of her rich, smothering, family to discover her own identity and sexuality.” [via Variety]
2. Emmy Award-winning actor Jim Parsons could be returning to Broadway this spring to star in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey; whether or not he plays Elwood P. Dowd, a man who claims to be friends with a six-foot-tall rabbit, hinges on if he can juggle the gig with his schedule for The Big Bang Theory. [via ArtsBeat]
3. Deadline is exclusively reporting that Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker will be reteaming with director David Fincher on his upcoming remake of 20,000 League Under the Sea.
4. Some exciting news for lit nerds and/or fans of period dramas: Vulture reports that HBO is partnering with the BBC to develop a new mini-series based on Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall.
5. Did you realize that standup comedian and former Grace Under Fire star Brett Butler wound up broke and homeless after a long battle with drug addiction? She’s now hoping to have a comeback of sorts with a reality show about her psychic abilities. [via THR]
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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, ranging from family-friendly zombies to haunted hotels to psycho teens; check ‘em out after the jump.
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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 eight new trailers this week, running the gamut from a big-budget superhero all-star tentpole to indies about cross-dressing and prostitution. Check ‘em out after the jump.
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Writer/director Cameron Crowe hasn’t released a movie since 2005′s Elizabethtown. Sure, he’s been rolling our documentaries for the likes of Pearl Jam, but it seems astounding to us that it has been a full six years. In his new, We Bought a Zoo, Matt Damon as a grieving father struggling to be the best parent he can be. So he does what anyone would do in that situation and he buys a zoo, which is, of course, just a metaphor for the wilds of parenting.
There’s a bit of Jerry Maguire, Elizabethtown and all the typical Cameron Crowe heartwarming emotion bordering on schmaltz contained within — like when Thomas Haden Church says, “I like the animals, I love the humans.” The only guarantees are that the movie will have a great soundtrack, you will probably feel guilty for crying at least three times during it and Kevin James, thankfully, is nowhere to be found. Watch the trailer after the jump and let us know if you think Crowe still has it.
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In his Iconatomy series, Swedish artist George Chamoun creates digital collages out of photographs of Hollywood stars from two different eras — and in the process reveals that maybe standards of beauty haven’t changed as much as we thought over the past few decades. The most challenging part for him? Finding the right images to pair together. “This project has been a lot about ideals, patterns, and anatomy,” he writes. “The pictures are not morphed in any way. What you see is a collage of two different people in each picture.” Click through to see the interesting results, and let us know in the comments which “Franken-celebrity” you think works best.
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As we’ve previously stated, we feel like a lot of the negative reaction to Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson’s debut album of Tom Waits covers, was more about who she was as opposed to what she sounded like. Today we bring you the latest cover by the singing actress, a duet with Serge Gainsbourg’s son, Lulu, that will appear on the forthcoming tribute album From Lulu To Gainsbourg. Does her version of “Bonnie & Clyde” live up to Brigitte Bardot’s original performance? Click through and let us know what you think in the comments.
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