Saturday Hot Links

Back for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!

Today: The Stanley Kubrick Interview Edition!

The future of Star Wars: Lucas says it could go on for ‘the next hundred years.’

Death to the Twinkee: The funniest eulogies.

5 shameless attempts to make the next Twilight.

Music to Write By: 10 Top Authors Share Their Secrets for Summoning the Muse.

Vulture ranks all 28 Spielberg movies.

Ray Kurzweil’s dubious new theory of mind.

Why 2012 is a banner year for found footage films.

Gene distinguishes early birds from night owls and helps predicts time of death.

The Godfather movies cut in linear chronology [video].

Bubble wrap was originally supposed to be wallpaper.

One college newspaper’s opinion: Hollywood has run out of ideas.

Why do our ears pop when we ride in airplanes.

Is this the greatest unproduced American screenplay?

Infographic: The best-selling sci-fi books of all time.

Mel Brooks says Blazing Saddles would not get made by Hollywood studios nowadays [video].

Do hummingbirds snore?

10 tips on designing a movie poster.

17 euphemisms for sex from the 1800s.

Man vomits from balcony as Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon perform Broadways ‘Grace’.

Baby name trends in 2013.

Carrie Fisher gives her vision for Princess Leia in the new Star Wars movie.

Read a newly discovered, unfinished Truman Capote manuscript.

Producers of sci-fi thriller duped.

Face swapping may become as easy as pushing a button.

Heroines of cinema: Ten $100M hits starring women over 50.

Mind-reading scan locates site of meaning in the brain.

U.K. shows a big appetite for Internet connected TVs.

Our plastic surgery obsession.

Warner Bros., IMAX: 3 year deal.

Thomas Jefferson: Tomatoes, urban farming and making coffee.

Inside the risky business of porn star agents.

7 things you should know about sign language.

August Wilson’s plays to be recorded as radio dramas.

Brain scans of rappers sheds light on creativity.

HBO turns 40: What are its greatest specials, movies and TV series.

Brazil’s bizarre plan to clone endangered animals.

Vintage Star Wars business cards.

Why are potatoes called spuds?

Santa Monica = Spirit Awards.

New authorized Beatles concert film in the works.

5 of the most bizarre auctions in history.

Derek Haas on his love for Stephen King.

Why does the Moon sometimes look huge?

Is Brave co-director involved with Star Wars: Episode VII.

NASCAR driver fined $25K for texting from car during a race.

Can Hollywood make the cut at YouTube?

9 of the biggest trades in Major League Baseball.

Is political prognosticator Nate Silver going Hollywood?

11 acts of kindness in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

50 movie franchises that ended too soon.

The secret to making a spectacular cup of coffee.

Robert De Niro on the art of a long career.

11 weirdly spelled words… and how they got that way.

Johnny Carson biopic in the works.

11 things you probably didn’t know about taxidermy.

Lena Dunham explains why she’s so controversial.

Typefaces designed to serve a greater purpose.

Santa Barbra International Film Festival to honor Ben Affleck.

Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so high?

Michael Eisner signs a film distribution deal with Universal.

We are very near the end of civilization as we know it.

Can you say year-end box office surge?

11 weird fashion trends from around the world.

10 documentaries that will make you a better person.

Mark Cuban: Facebook is driving away brands.

THR: Where Hollywood vacations.

Famous writers on their favorite bookstores.

Empire’s best and worst movie taglines.

11 artists doing amazing things with recycled goods.

Diane Keaton to receive Sherry Lansing leadership award.

Why is the NBA shot clock set for 24 seconds?

Why Brooklyn is New York’s best moviegoing site.

11 famous misquotations and what was really said.

Why can’t we predict earthquakes?

“50 Shades of Grey” divorces husband after he refuses her sexual fantasies.

10 profound lessons from the future of storytelling conference.

Dorothy’s famous Wizard of Oz dress fetches $280K purchase prices.

Kurt Cobain’s top 50 album list.

Leonardo DiCaprio $23M Malibu estate for sale.

The Nobel Prize winners who foiled the Führer.

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