I Am Link

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--- Dragon's Lair - EW shares the first look at the second Hobbit movie, which is the one saddled with The Desolation of Smaug sub-title, and sure enough methinks that Bilbo's getting an eyeful of Smaug therein. The best part of that link though is Peter Jackson's eternal co-writer Philippa Boyens hinting about what we'll be seeing in the third movie (cough The Battle of Five Armies cough). Nerd alert.

--- After Eyre - Carey Fukunaga, the very promising young director of Jane Eyre and Sin Nombre, has directed a short film starring the very promising young actress Haley Bennett, who I've been sounding the bell for for awhile now, and you can see it over at The Playlist.

--- Rhinestone Cowboy - After looking at these pictures of Michael Douglas as Liberace in Steven Soderbergh's bio-pic Behind the Candelabra (yup, that title still cracks me up every time), I'm now convinced that Mike got his much-discussed funky face-lift specifically so he'd look like ol' Libs a little bit more, because damn he looks right. Matt Damon is too damn old, though.

--- Gifs For Peace - You know that Stanley Donwood art-work for Thom Yorke's side-band Atoms For Peace's next album that I showed off the other day? Apparently the band's record company graffiti'd their entire building with it and made a time-lapse of it moving - watch it over at Pitchfork.

--- Anchor Woman - I can't believe I forgot to link to this yesterday - Kristen Wiig might play Will Ferrell's Steve Carell's romantic foil wife in the Anchorman sequel! I thought Christina Applegate was terrific in the first movie, but I'm all over Kristen and Will Steve together. Plus she can rock the Farrah hair again.

--- Female Troubles - As I typed up this morning's Life Lesson from Sara Goldfarb, I immediately thought of this post at The Film Experience from yesterday wherein Nat imagines a box-set of movies from his favorite genre - "Women Who Lie To Themselves." Sara would fit right in.

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