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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 1:00PM
NATHANIEL R in Drive, Glee, Harry Shum Jr, Jean Dujardin, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscars (11), Oscars (12), Serena, Smash, biopics, musicals

Towleroad Revisiting Drive on DVD. Ryan Gosling's scorpion jacket is at auction. One more day to bid! (I suspect this is a good investment as movie memorabilia goes.)
Carpetbagger Author Jeffrey Eugenides on his Oscar ballot. He loves The Tree of Life and all things Woody Allen. Has issues with Bridesmaids
In Contention breaking Oscar's biopic addiction. Halleloo. 
Movie|Line today is The Artist day in LA. Officially! Harvey Weinstein continues to be a god amongst mortals when it comes to Oscar campaigns.

 

My New Plaid Pants JA has gone totes l'amour fou for Jean Dujardin. Pervy animated gifsm, dancing in boxer shorts, gratuitous photo spreads. But can you blame him?
Empire another new role for Jennifer Lawrence in the adaptation of the novel Serena about an ruthless ambitious married couple running a timber empire in 1929. This role was once earmarked for Angelina Jolie so clearly Hollywood has faith in Jennifer Lawrence.
IndieWire for your consideration at next year's Oscars. The Sundance crop.
Towleroad Director Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) is out of the closet. I didn't realize he was in. 

The TV Experience?
Brief somewhat random thoughts on Glee vs. Smash and more small screen after the jump...

If Harry Shum Jr. is going to be saddled with the Janet Jackson role for Glee, why couldn't there have been a nipple slip?

Despite my rabid love of Harry Shum Jr. -- Seriously Hollywood. Give him a romcom the second he's off Glee (soon). Stop stop stop refusing to realize it when Asian male actors are super sexy! -- showcasing him more fully doesn't really help when you're just recreating music videos. Maybe my hatred of Glee recreating exact videos (I also despised the Britney Spears episode) is linked to my annoyance with Biopic Mimicry? Maybe I just hate replicas? Give me the real thing or do your own thing but stop copying.

Will Smash cure me of the Glee addiction? Glee is often objectively terrible but I need musicals in my life. Always have. One episode doesn't convince me that Smash will be great but I'm cautiously hopeful. I'll write it up for its Superbowl debut since it combines two things we love, one of which is even totally appropriate to this site: Broadway musicals and Marilyn Monroe.

Megan Hilty, one of the would be Marilyn's on that show is playing another Marilyn musical role on stage soon: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

I had a ton of fun writing up True Blood last summer and I had every intention of repeating that this year. But the Season 5 teaser seems to imply that King Russell will be the Big Bad and I hate it when TV shows go into loops. What a way to kill any potential for fresh, uh, blood for this show. They finally worked their way out of some terribly tired storylines and then they're just going to return to an old storyline? Nooooooooo. This is why I love movies so much more than television. Television's greatest advantage as a medium is its longform serialization but when longform just means "repeat" than it's totally not worth the time. 

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are the best things about television. So pleased that 30 Rock is back (Jane Krakowski is comic bliss as always) and Parks and Recreation is the single funniest show on television. So why was their movie Baby Mama so mediocre? 

Season 5 of Mad Men is on the way and Sew Weekly has fashion predictions -what year are we up to now? The show often jumps ahead.

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