Saturday Hot Links
Back for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The How Not To Open A Bottle Of Champagne Edition
In LA and looking to drop a wad for dinner this New Year’s Eve? THR recommends these five eateries.
The Silence of the Lambs and Forrest Gump among 25 films added to the National Film Registry.
An LAT analysis of what new TV series succeeded and failed in 2011… and why.
Why daydreamers are more creative.
Speaking of dreamers, here are 9 famous Harvard dropouts not named Zuckerberg.
IndieWire with the top 30 indie films in domestic box office revenues.
Remember Cheetah, the monkey sidekick to Tarzan in that movie series? Cheetah died this week at the age of 80 years old. Uh, not so fast. Maybe not. Is it a conspiracy?
Weird writing habits of famous authors.
Steve Zeitchik [LAT] asks: Are Matt Damon and Tom Cruise switching places?
Her are 25 words you may not know are trademarked.
Speaking of words, here are 17 Vowel-Free Words Acceptable in ‘Words With Friends’.
The Academy releases the 2012 Oscar’s one-sheet.
In real estate news, here are the week’s biggest deals in Hollywood including Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen, Anderson Cooper, Zynga’s Mark Pincus.
A Laurel Canyon house in which The Doors’ Jim Morrison once lived was one of several homes affected by a spate of arson attacks in Hollywood and West Hollywood this week.
Are these the 10 best movie moments from 2011?
And if you’re not smart enough to answer that, perhaps you need one of these: The best psychology and philosophy books of 2011.
If you’ve seen A Dangerous Method, here is an interesting analysis: Kiera Knightley’s Vagina.
Nice little story here about the story of creating.
In legal news, the anonymous actress who is suing IMDB for $1M for revealing her age on their website? She has 15 days to reveal her identity or the court will set aside her case.
Former personal assistant to Lady Gaga sues her for $380K for unpaid overtime.
More legal: It’s Hollywood vs. GoDaddy.
And is Amazon being a big bad bully?
Paramount asks court to drop John Singleton Hustle and Flow suit.
Looking back on the year, FilmmakerIQ provides this retrospective of that site’s best articles for 2011.
CNN Showbiz News decides the top angle on 2011 in films: Funny women rule.
NPR with a nice feature remembering musicians who died in 2011.
Entertainment Weekly: Top 10 movie books from 2011.
The NYT’s David Pogue weighs in with The Pogie Awards for the year’s best tech devices.
Want to know what the top renting movie for Redbox was in 2011? Go here to find out.
Fangoria’s top 10 horror movies of 2011. Surprising how many of them we would consider art house movies (e.g., The Skin I Live In, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Insidious, Attack the Block).
AICN with a preview of the first 12 weeks of 2012 movies.
Here are the top 10 reasons for annual top 10 lists.
J.J. Abrams Bad Robot releases an iPhone app.
Mental Floss with 19 outstanding words you should be working into conversations.
Former SNL writer Joe Bodalai and co-writer of the first draft of Wayne’s World was found dead this week of an apparent suicide.
From Digital Inspiration: The 101 Most Helpful Websites.
More proof we are very near the end of civilization: Kim Kardashian getting paid $600K to party on New Year’s Eve.
Oh, wait. More proof. Did you know the #3 grossing documentary of all time is Justin Bieber: Never Say Never which grossed $73M this year?
Malcolm Gladwell has no idea why “The Tipping Point” was a hit.
Who cleans up after seeing eye dogs?
Steve Zeitchik (LAT) thinks one reason why The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is underperforming is because foreign remakes struggle.
Ah, to be back in college again: 22 Fascinating and Bizarre Classes Offered This Semester.
VOD is growing in Latin America.
Michigan renews its film incentive program.
That new online game “Star Wars: The Old Republic” sells 1 million copies in one week.
Mystery of the incident that inspired The Birds finally solved.
The 23 best infographics of 2011.
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the Week: Exciting news as Tom Benedek and I round out the curriculum for 2012. We will be offering three new programs for beginning, intermediate and advanced writers in which you learn the theory you need to be able to write a professional quality screenplay combined with a workshop to prep and finish a full-length screenplay. More information to come soon on our revamped SMC website and in our monthly SMC newsletter. If you’re interested in receiving the newsletter, information about the new screenwriting programs or any other SMC course, drop me an email. Here’s hoping your 2012 is your best creative year yet!
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