Saturday Hot Links
Time for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The May the Fourth Be With You Edition.
The 2013 Tony Award nominations.
25 humpalicious steps for writing your first sex scene.
Everything Wes Anderson’s ever directed, ranked.
This is how Google Glass actually works [video].
Los Angeles Film Festival announces 2013 lineup.
John Lennon artwork goes on display in Century City.
11 things to know about Iron Man.
7 surprising uses for tequila.
Tentpole marketing campaigns focusing on concept images rather than stars.
Donald Trump’s hair discovered crawling in the Amazon.
Q&A: Zach Braff on his Kickstarter campaign.
RIP: Hot Mail dead at 16 years old.
Mother Jones interview with Michael Bay.
10 essential neo-noir authors.
FilmmakerIQ: 1138 behind the scene photos from the Star Wars trilogy.
U.K. publishers hit book sales record for 2012 amid digital growth.
Awesome subway style map of some of the best movies ever made.
Fat taxes, $10 boarding passes and other absurd airline fees.
Could YouTube become as big as CBS or Viacom.
New study: Ladies and gentlemen love beards.
Michale Palin to get BAFTA fellowship.
11 of the most watched television trials.
Steven Spielberg’s next movie: American Sniper.
A graveyard of failed Internet music ventures.
13 popular movie poster cliches.
Celebrating great women comedy directors.
2013 Student Academy Awards finalists announced.
What determines what your voice sounds like.
J.J. Abrams talks about his approach to Star Wars.
Cannibalism in Jamestown: Colonists ate a 14 year-old girl’s brain.
Is 2015 the year Disney dominates Hollywood.
Buzzfeed: The sexiest, smartest colleges in the country.
Seth MacFarlane installs $1M home Imax theater.
George Jones album sales increase 1000% after his death.
6 movies that were almost other movies.
Publisher’s Weekly review: “Intelligence Redefined: The Truth about Talent, Practice, Creativity, and the Many Paths to Greatness” by Scott Kaufman.
TV is obsessed with virgins right now.
Yes, money can buy you happiness.
Peter Sciretta asks Kevin Feige: When will we see Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars/Marvel crossover movie?’
Chickpeas: America’s new cash crop.
New “Arrested Development” teaser released [video].
8 tattoos of M.C. Escher art.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice to shoot this month.
How Trent Harris became the best underground filmmaker you don’t know.
11 spam comments that look like drunk thesauruses.
When do you submit a script.
This is where tar comes from.
DreamWorks Animation buys AwesomenessTV.
Woman with womb transplant 6 weeks pregnant.
Does World War Z need to make $400M to break even.
Before and after photos after a month of meditation.
Willie Nelson’s Gandalf audition tape [video].
Handwritten manuscript pages from classic novels.
Yahoo paid CEO Melissa Mayer $36.6M in 2012.
Pop song titles are losing the love.
Samples of Hans Zimmer ‘ score for Man of Steel now online.
50 of the dumbest decisions in movie history.
Vulture: 50 comedians you should and will know.
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— Matt Cowley
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— Ourdia Hodge
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— Joe Mihalow
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