1. In which Gawker asks: Who is the hipster of the decade? While we love Hipster Runoff’s Carles, we’re going to have to go with Dash Snow. [via Gawker]
2. Quentin Tarantino‘s next project is going to be “smaller, less epic” in scale than Inglourious Basterds, and in a “different genre entirely.” [via Vulture]
3. Zing: Rage Against The Machine have invited Simon Cowell to host the free gig they’re planning to celebrate beating The X Factor to Christmas Number One, which is a big deal in the UK. [via NME]
4. The first trailer for the fourth and final Shrek movie is out; it hits theaters next summer. [via Digital Spy]
5. Def Leppard are pitching a cartoon show starring themselves to networks in the US. [via BBC]
Bonus link: Lord of the Rings Facebook Statuses
How To Train Your Dragon tells the story of a young Viking named Hiccup who befriends a wounded dragon. Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson and Jonah Hill provide voice talent for the 3-D animated film, which opens next March.
Will it do for scary green dragons what Shrek did for scary green ogres? We’re sure that’s what DreamWorks is hoping, but from the trailer after the jump, it’s hard to tell. The thing that made Shrek a box office smash was the fact that it was a children’s story laced with adult humor. This one seems more action-based, which could be a misstep. We’re also thrown off by the fact that Ferrera is voicing the blonde love interest. It’s like Betty Suarez has turned into Amanda Tanen overnight.
Take a look and let us know what you think.
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Today at Flavorpill, we fell head over heels for this web comic. We questioned the wisdom of a dance club for nerds. It just seems like today’s version of video dating. We got the shit scared out of us by some old dude named Abe Vigoda. We looked at gnomes. We re-examined Dan Brown and the price of crazy fame. We went on a cool behind-the-scenes tour of the staging of Shrek: The Musical. We wanted to go back to college and take a class called “Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era.” We remembered that we need to catch up with our DVR’ed episodes of Better Off Ted. We laughed at this pic. We freaked out over this back tattoo. And finally, we said goodbye to Oasis. At least for the next 5 years or so.
Talk about a Cleveland Steamer. Nancy Coyne of Broadway’s premiere ad agency Serino-Coyne recently got the best (and last) line in a New York Times report on the lack of money going into Broadway on both ends (investors and ticket-buyers):
“The last 15 years have been boom years for theater — I always expected the pendulum to swing, and I simply see this as a correction. The good news is that so many straight plays are now coming in the spring, and I think New Yorkers will come out for them once the tourists go away. We’re horrible snobs. We hate tourists from Cleveland.”
Coyne’s comments were sharp, funny, and naturally attacked on all ends.
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New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley has a gigantic crush on Sutton Foster and we think it’s clouding his judgment. That’s only reason we can imagine that in the same review he would insist “Shrek, for the record, is not bad,” and then compare it to “a Christmas panto, one of those silly seasonal shows beloved in Britain and bearable because, like Santa Claus, they come around only once a year.” It gets worse: “That’s one parallel that came to my mind. The other, when I was feeling less charitable, was of seeing out-of-work actors dressed up as tacos and French fries in a mall food court.”
Not bad, huh?
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