Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 110th installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The All Hail Lou Reed Edition.
Lou Reed: “Sweet Jane” (1974)
2014 TV premiere dates: The complete guide.
What dogs are saying when they wag their tails.
Movies to watch this winter: A guide to 2013’s best late releases.
40 financial tips you should know by the time you are 40.
Sports anchor delivers news as Ron Burgundy.
Maryland high school forces students to sign a no twerking contract.
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy went trick-or-treating together.
The 10 best Halloween candies ranked.
Tony Kushner’s speech to writers: We call that failure art.
The scientific way to survive the zombie apocalypse.
Supercut: Watch celebs doing their best Matthew McConaughey impressions.
Watch this incredible real-time map of births and deaths around the world.
Writers talk about their favorite Nora Ephron works.
The intern who stripped on the side.
Could Forrest Gump possibly have survived his epic run.
Why black cats are considered bad luck.
Watch Sesame Street “Homeland” parody [video].
Here is a profile of the U.S. moviegoing audience.
How Hollywood talent agencies did Halloween.
30 things you don’t know about five Exorcist movies.
The Hollywood Reporter unveils the industry’s top music schools.
The 50 greatest breakthroughs since the wheel.
Disney says no to pushing back Star Wars VII to 2016.
The Velvet Underground (documentary)
The Onion reviews 12 Years a Slave.
Paramount and Brad Pitt’s company feuding over 12 Years a Slave.
100 filmmakers to follow on Twitter.
10 fun and sad facts from Corey Feldman’s memoir.
USC Annenberg study: Dearth of African-Americans working in movies.
9 classic horror stories you can read right now.
20 great horror movies you can stream online right now.
Veteran TV writer Ken Levine has a new book out: “Must Kill TV”.
The 13 best new indie horror movies you should watch.
Airline seating in coach? Getting even worse!
WE tv appoints Cheryl Bloch to head up scripted programming.
How Subway sandwiches devoured TV shows, scripts.
12 Stanley Kubrick strategies for perfecting a film.
30 days of creativity.
Watch some never before seen Star Wars bloopers [video].
A brief history of film trailers.
The least popular American baby names.
10 highest grossing lesbian-themed films of all time.
Watch an animated version of a previously lost Kurt Cobain interview [video].
Why movie theaters can ignore NC-17 ratings.
Mexican drug lord assassinated by killer clowns.
TotalFilm: 50 most hates movies ever.
Free Calvin and Hobbes comics online.
13 myths Hollywood uses to discriminate against women directors.
15 weird and disturbing movie sex scenes that have scarred your memory.
Indie films are finding their audience in VOD.
Nikki Finke confirms she is leaving Deadline.
This is what a Pixar story meeting looks like [video].
Rock legend Lou Reed dies at the age of 71.
Lou Reed’s wife Laurie Anderson pens a poignant obituary.
Lou Reed live (1983)
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