Lena Dunham shot her load too early; the Season 3 final image of “Girls” should have been the final image forever

Spoilers and whatnot follow. At the end of Sunday night’s Girls season finale — which lost a pop culture canon it should have won because The Good Wife went and did the damn thing — we see Hannah and Adam essentially broken up, or… Continue Reading

Adam McKay (Will Ferrell’s boy) and Brad Pitt are teaming up for a Michael Lewis financial crisis movie. Wait, what?

Remember Michael Lewis’ book The Big Short? It’s about the financial crash — here’s an excerpt — and received, as most Michael Lewis things do, positive reviews. (Insane thing No. 1 about Michael Lewis: how did he bag Tabitha Soren? Insane thing… Continue Reading

Can Mark Few ever win an NCAA title at Gonzaga? (And what does that say about the idea of “mid-majors?”)

If you’re an average individual, chances are you know Gonzaga University because of the above clip — John Stockton went there — or because of the below clip: Secondary note of importance: that UCLA-Gonzaga game may be one of the… Continue Reading

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HBO’s Girls is renewed for Season 4. Adam Driver thinks he’s coming back. But would the show be better if Hannah and Adam were broken up?

Connect these dots for a second: 1. HBO has ordered a Season 4 of Girls. 2. Adam Driver believes he’s coming back: I don’t know. I leave that in the hands of people smarter than me, and definitely more articulate. [Laughs] But yeah,… Continue Reading

Lena Dunham, of Girls fame, is hosting Saturday Night Live tonight. How’s this going to go?

Theoretically, this has the possibility to shut down the Internet for a few 20-second stretches. We don’t know a ton about it so far — she is hanging out with the girls in the cast, though. girl pile in Studio… Continue Reading

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The median age of a TV viewer is now 54. Has advertising basically become a junk science?

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are. — Homer J Simpson (@homersquotes) February 7, 2011 Amen, Homer. We were all taught to believe that the central idea of… Continue Reading

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So, is Steve Carrell going to win Best Actor next year for Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher?

Bennett Miller has directed Moneyball and Capote, both of which got acting Oscars and other nods (including Best Picture, where he’s 2-for-2 on non-documentary films; he’s also dating Ashley Olsen). He’s next up with Foxcatcher, which was actually supposed to come out this past… Continue Reading

If you interview inmates about their decision-making when they were younger, what can you learn?

That’s the idea behind a photo exhibit from Trent Bell (there’s an accompanying video embedded above). Only 12 men volunteered for Bell’s project, which came about when one of his good friends was sentenced to 36 years in jail — and… Continue Reading