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--- Fat Bottomed Sacha - This was a rumor awhile back and now it looks like that rumor's turning true - Sacha Baron Cohen playing singer Freddie Mercury in a bio-pic. I liked the rumor then and I like it now. Writer of The Queen, Peter Morgan, is now tackling the Queen queen. Mkay? Mkay.

--- Going To The Social - Trent Reznor has made five songs from his score for David Fincher's The Social Network available to download online, over here. I listened to the first track that showed up online the other week and it sounds interesting. I was only sort of vaguely inclined towards this movie even up to a couple weeks ago but now I am on board with the enthusiasm. Wanna see.

--- It's Contagious! - Signing on to act in Steven Soderbergh's next movie, called Contagion, that is. Four more names have been slapped on top of the already-gathered little-known folks like Kate Winslet and Matt Damon and Jude Law and Marion Cotillard and Lawrence Fishburne. They include Bryan Cranston, who shoulda won an Emmy for his work on Malcolm in the Middle no I am not kidding, and Demetri Martin, so adorable in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock.

--- He Likes To Talk - I'm certain that between now and the forever-away-future of his adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness coming out I'll be linking to a thousand such chats with director Guillermo Del Toro about that project, but that's not gonna keep me down! Here's a new chat with Collider on that project, as well as The Haunted Mansion movie he's producing.

--- One Week! - Fringe is back on in one week and io9 has a supposedly spoiler-free preview of the first couple of episodes. I didn't read anything but the first paragraph, I am keeping myself dewy fresh. But they say the show's firing on more cylinders than they even knew it had, so awesome.

--- Real Camp - Rich at FourFour got to ask John Waters a question at a recent Q&A with the man, and caught the whole thing on video. It's about reality television. I'm just pissed off I've never seen John Waters speak live yet. I've seen him on the street twice, if that counts! Including one time riding a bicycle like the Wicked Witch of the West down the street in Provincetown, but I think that's like noticing the sky is blue - if you go to Provincetown the chances of seeing John Waters riding a bicycle like the Wicked Witch of the West down the street are supposedly pretty damn good.
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