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This is the person I have been obsessed with lately. So tough, so tender. RELATED: Underrated.

This is the person I have been obsessed with lately. So tough, so tender. RELATED: Underrated.

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Ben Stiller deserves full acknowledgment as Greenberg’s co-creator. His performance is some kind of career peak, a beautifully modulated piece of craft and one of the best bits of physical acting you’re likely to see in a film for a while.
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Mark Lanegan: “Where Did You Sleep Last Night”

From The Winding Sheet

Relevant to this, considering Kurt played guitar and sang on Sheet, Lanegan’s first solo album. Someone needs to sit down and talk with Lanegan, then write a long, heartbreaking feature.

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Jason Segel and Ed Helms Join Duplass Brothers’ Stoner Comedy Jeff Who Lives at Home | /Film
Getting fairly obsessed with the Duplass brothers, so this is exciting.

Jason Segel and Ed Helms Join Duplass Brothers’ Stoner Comedy Jeff Who Lives at Home | /Film

Getting fairly obsessed with the Duplass brothers, so this is exciting.

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Psyched on this! Enthusiasm!

Psyched on this! Enthusiasm!

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I wrote almost exclusively about Michael Lynche’s performance, for obvious reasons.
Three Things About Last Night’s American Idol: Watching Michael Lynche, If Only For A Moment, Change Everything

I wrote almost exclusively about Michael Lynche’s performance, for obvious reasons.

Three Things About Last Night’s American Idol: Watching Michael Lynche, If Only For A Moment, Change Everything

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Big moment. More tomorrow.

Big moment. More tomorrow.

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FADER FORT SXSW 2010 REPORT, YOU GUYS

Just got a top secret email from a deep-sourced source person source. He/she said this is what Thursday is looking like.

Fader Fort Lineup, Thursday, 3/18

1 – 1:30    Gilbert Gottfried

1:30 – 2   That girl from the Progressive Insurance commercials

2 – 3  Cap’n Jazz

3 – 4  Kosha Dillz

4 – 5  The little kid from Two and a Half Men

5 – 6  Seinfeld

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White Hinterland: “Begin Again”

Biggest surprise of the year for me. Verses are soft, muddy, hooks are massive, affirming. Like Aaliyah recording in an igloo. From here.

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Elia Kazan’s Wild River is not available on DVD in the United States. Inexplicable.
RELATED: J. Hoberman on Wild River last year.
This week’s ‘That’s Montgomery Clift!’ at BAM.

Elia Kazan’s Wild River is not available on DVD in the United States. Inexplicable.

RELATED: J. Hoberman on Wild River last year.

This week’s ‘That’s Montgomery Clift!’ at BAM.