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--- There's The Beef - I think it's fairly hysterical that Lars von Trier coerced Shia LaBeouf into emailing him a dick pic as a dare before he landed the role in Nymphomaniac, but then I usually find Lars' button-mashing antics right up my alley. This really should become how things are always done, though.

--- And Speaking of cock (I feel like I say that phrase a lot in my life), The Village Voice cracked me up with their piece imploring James Franco to take that double dicked bisexual dude up on his facial invitation. Put your face where your mouth is, Jimbo!

--- Party In The Back - Hugh Jackman instagrammed a photograph of the mullet he's sporting for Neill Blomkamp's next movie Chappie, and as far as these things go ("these things" being mullets) it's actually pretty restrained. Classy even! (That's just my way of saying I would still sit on Hugh Jackman.)

--- Mother Superior - Susan Sarandon is playing Melissa McCarty's mom in her next movie and here's the first picture of them. It's called Tammy and it's being directed by McCarthy's husband (he has a career of his own but I want to live in a world where more men are just referred to as their more famous lady's husband, because equality! And anyway he'll always be the dude with the sub at the end of Bridesmaids to me. (Oh, also Randy. He likes a taco dish.)

--- Don't Be A Hader - Did you recognize Bill Hader's voice in Spike Jonze's Her? I totally did but I have an excellent ear for celebrity voices; it's one of my many, many, many talents. Anyway Vulture asked him about it; my favorite section comes at the end where he talks about seeing the movie...

"I thought people in the theater were getting really turned on. I’m being honest. I felt people were getting super horny during that movie. Just them having orgasms and having sex and stuff. I just felt like people were getting horny around me."

--- Jeez Hon - The movie of the week over at The Dissolve is the masterpiece Fargo, aptly enough given this hyper-branded polar vortex we're balls deep in right now, and I loved this piece by Scott Tobias on the Coens' love slash side-eye for their Midwestern home and its small strange pleasures. I agree about that head tilt, but it's still just a really funny bit of acting, and sometimes funny wins, ya know?

--- Voice Work - The second half of The Film Experience's mini-symposium before the Oscar nominations went up today - there's a lot of talk about Amy Adams' accent in American Hustle in it as well as in the comments; I'm not crazy about that movie but like I mentioned in my review I thought AA played that purposeful accent wonk like a sweet sweet violin. It was weird and fruity and interesting in ways that other stuff in the movie (whatever Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper were doing) just seemed to try and fail.

--- Gimme Mo - I don't know about you but I have been missing Mo'Nique, who hasn't done any acting since she won the Oscar (deservedly) for Precious, so I was happy to hear she took a role in an indie film called Blackbird, in which she'll play the disapproving mother of a young man coming out.
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