Saturday Hot Links
Back for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The Big Time Movie Supercut Edition!
The Hollywood Reporter: Top 25 film schools of 2013.
The case for an only child.
The trick that’s pushing movie titles to the front of the alphabet.
8 children’s titles that tried — and failed — to be the next Harry Potter.
11 Harry Potter facts that you probably don’t know.
The chilling history of how Hollywood helped Hitler.
One effect of “Fifty Shades of Grey”: Couples getting stuck in handcuffs.
Despicable Me 2: Universal’s most profitable film ever.
17 euphemisms for sex from the 1800s.
Hollywood’s new box office problem: Fall’s prestige movie pileup.
Girl, 9, could be youngest chess master ever.
Paramount makes move toward digital era.
How daydreaming can help you pay attention.
15 over-used movie poster cliches.
Total value of recent jewel heist in Canne: $136M.
Watch a supercut of every movie reference from “The Simpsons” seasons 6–10 [video].
The best cities for young artists.
This list keeps growing: Stanley Kubrick’s favorite films.
101 everyday ways for men to be allies to women.
8 revelations from inside the “Breaking Bad” writers’ room.
Songwriter J.J. Cale (“Cocaine,” “They Call Me the Breeze) dies at 74.
Sony commissions “Breaking Bad” documentary.
Thought verbs from Chuck Palahniuk.
The 20 essential movies about breaking up.
Stephen King’s 20 quotes on writing.
Why Stephen King spends months, even years writing opening sentences.
Hollywood studios denied payments from China.
Joyce Carol Oates writing advice: 10 tips tweeted by the author.
177 episodes of “House” turned into a supercut [video].
4 historical royal birth traditions.
Cate Blanchett = Woody Allen’s Lena Dunham?
Will Woody Allen return to standup?
Everything you know about the brain is wrong.
“Sherlock” season three nemesis revealed.
Creativity Post: The lottery of birth.
VCR’s past is guiding television’s future.
Are kids over Barbie.
Composite portraits of every face in a movie.
Shyness cannot be “cured”.
Kathleen Kennedy talks inside Star Wars.
Here’s a shock: John Williams to score next Star Wars.
Star Wars gets dubbed into Navajo.
Is sending humans to Mars actually feasible.
Check it out: Bollywood’s 10 best lists.
How 9 famous acquitted defendants spent the rest of their lives.
10 great movies with minimal dialogue.
5 myths about getting a flat stomach.
Q&A with first Saudi Arabian woman to direct a movie.
New book rewrites how evolution was discovered.
Joss Whedon criticizes lack of originality in Hollywood.
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