Saturday Hot Links
Back for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The Local Newscast Blooper Edition
Let’s start out with the 9 most painfully awkward moments from last Sunday’s Oscars.
TV critic Tim Goodman asks another question: Can Someone Fix the Academy Awards? Please? Anyone?
This year’s Oscars cause John Hess [TheWrap] to wonder if this is the end of the feature film format [video].
While the mainstream media may be talking about the demise of the Academy Awards, facts prove otherwise.
BTW here is how you can become a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.
This film critic asks would Billy Wilder have voted for The Artist?
Speaking of The Artist, now you can take a Google maps tour of old Hollywood film locations featured in the movie.
By the way, silent film rentals are up 40% with the success of The Artist.
And why not get started thinking about the 2013 Oscars with these predictions for some winners.
14 movie cameos by the authors of the original books [video].
Why Andrew Stanton dedicated John Carter to Steve Jobs.
How about some “Game of Thrones” mash-ups?
TotalFilm: The 50 most controversial movie posters of all time.
What the original $1 bill looked like.
Sony to launch UK movie channel.
Holy crap, this is freaky: 50 images to inspire your nightmares.
Chris Nolan’s agent Dan Aloni departs CAA, becomes a partner at WME.
For those of you in SoCal, the WGA is back with its terrific Anatomy of a Script series.
Michael Mann to produce HBO documentary series “Witness” about combat photographers.
The recent Berlin European Film Market set a record attendance.
Here are 236 movies about writers and the writer’s life.
Watch a deleted scene and blooper reel from The Muppets.
Was Dustin Hoffman blacklisted from Hollywood for 5 years?
It’s official: Billy Murray is out of the Ghostbusters 3 project.
TotalFilm: 50 greatest villains of 2012 movies.
Now it’s the graphic novel “Dinosaurs vs. Aliens”. Can’t we just do “Vampires vs. Aliens” and be done with it?
Citizen Kane Oscar statue auctioned.
Comic-Con 2012 badges go on sale today.
Sixteen things “Calvin and Hobbes” said better than anyone else.
While we’re in this terrain, 10 memorable Dr. Seuss quotes about his work.
Scarlett Johansson and James Darcy to star in “Alfred Hitchock and the Making of ‘Psycho’”.
Good news: More dayreaming = more creativity.
How to sell a TV show: Have tricks up your sleeve.
Sacha Baron Cohen signs a first-look deal with Paramount.
10 movies that would make great theme parties.
DreamWorks Animation shares hammered.
More entertainment economic news: Blizzard, makers of videogames “Warcraft,” slash 600 jobs.
10 questions raised by the new Avengers trailer.
The 50 most extreme movie performances.
Shout out to my old home town [for 2 years]: Aspen, Colorado, which is hosting the 20th Annuals Shortsfest at the historic Wheeler Opera House.
Insurge Pictures and Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Digital to launch series on Yahoo.
Finally the answer to the question that has been bothering us for years: Who does Barack Obama think is the best Character on “The Wire”? It’s Omar!
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