Proposition 8 play stars Clooney, Pitt, Bacon, everybody else

Dustin Lance Black's play 8 streamed live this weekend starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer, Matthew Morrison, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, John C. Reilly and Rory O’Malley and many more. So, if you have an hour and a half ... Via The Daily What.

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Will Anne Hathaway play Fantine in Les Miserables?

Broadway World thinks so: "Anne Hathaway was last associated with Les Miserable when she belted out her own version of "Own My Own" at February's Oscar ceremony to past host Hugh Jackman. Now, BroadwayWorld.com's reliable sources tell us that at Jackman's pushing, she is now set to take on the role of Fantine in the eagerly anticipated film version of the epic musical.  Last week, Hollywood site Deadline.com reported that filming for Woverine 2, the sequel to the successful X Men franchise starring Hugh Jackman, may be pushed back to the spring of 2012 due to location scouting issues. This means that Jackman will shoot the Les Miserables film, in which he'll be playing Jean Valjean, first, beginning in February of 2012. The film will be shot in the UK. According to itsonthegrid, additional actors being courted for the film have included Russell Crowe for Javert, Geoffrey Rush for Thenardier, Helena Bonaham Carter for Madame Thenardier, Hayden Panettiere, Miranda Cosgrove, Lucy Hale, and Emma Watson for the roles of Eponine and Cosette, and Amy Adams and Rebecca Hall for Fantine."

Here is Anne Hathaway singing the Oscar version of "On My Own":

Here are Fantine and Valjean and Javert at the 25th anniversary concert:

What if Harold Pinter wrote a play about Duck Hunt?

... Then it would be pretty much like this, part of a series called "Theatre of the Arcade" by the Piper McKenzie compary in Brooklyn. Via Topless Robot.

Harold Pinter's Duck Hunt from Piper McKenzie on Vimeo.

My decoy ducks are not sure they approve.

 

Idiotic commercial of the day

My immediate reaction to this is 1) What? 2) Erm ... 3) I'm not ... there's a ... what? 4) If there's an over-whelming and compelling reason to even consider that kind of product, should you not, perhaps, be seeing a doctor? 5) Way to go, ad executives, reducing the great Cleopatra to a douche seller. Put that bitch in her place. 6) Are you serious? 7) What? 8) I believe that in the middle-ages, the rotting teeth, the lice, the gangrene, the fleas and the open festering sores might have been a somewhat greater concern than the cleanliness of anyone's privates. 9) Women: dirty, dirty people with dirty parts. So much dirtier than other people. 10) What?

Art appreciation 101: The Lindsay Lohan edition

Good morning and welcome to Art Appreciation class. Today we will be taking a look at the intriguing installation "Lindsay Lounging" from Italian Vanity Fair. While you may be excused for thinking that Lindsay Lohan is a rough-looking 49-year-old cast member on Real Housewives of Ed Hardy's Dreams, she is in fact a 25-year-old former actress trying to rehabilitate her image. She choses to emphasize her youth by lounging with a lecherous teddy bear and a golden skull. These two props also brings attention to the futility of existence and serve as a lovely contrast to the couch borrowed from the bordello next door. In an interesting twist, no one at the magazine's art department could be bothered to get rid of the wires and the crappy house seen from the window. Reality is very chic right now. This concludes today's lecture. PS: We speak no Italian here at the Institute of Photos You Wouldn't Want to See Your Sister In, so I'm sure the headline does not in fact say: "Lindsay Lohan: She-male or fat ho?"

 

Random thing I really wish I could see

Kevin Spacey playing Richard III to rave reviews at the Old Vic in London.

I bet the experience isn't hampered by not knowing whether Shakespeare was a pot head.

AP Photo/Alastair Muir

Taiwanese animators explain what's going on with Spider-Man

A Klingon Christmas Carol

It the time of year when we bring out last year's fruitcake and sharpen our Bat'leths. In related news: I really need to go to Chicago.

"A Klingon Christmas Carol" is going to Chicago! from Christopher Kidder on Vimeo.

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