Hey readers! If you go by the Gregorian Calendar, and you write out the date using American shorthand, it reads 1/21/11. What does that mean? The stars have ordained an Open Thread!
First, American Idol is back, with new celebrity judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez. Your correspondent’s take: it feels simultaneously too early for Tyler to be a fixture on reality TV and too late for Lopez. Ryan Seacrest, however, is in the role he was born to play.
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Fans were treated to some teaser pics from X-Men: First Class, hitting theaters this summer. Your correspondent’s take: deviating from canon by making Charles Xavier, Emma Frost and Havok contemporaries is an odd choice. But then, I always encourage deviating from canon if it means a better product.
Welcome to the 60s!
New casting details announced for Christopher Nolan’s next Batman pic: Anne Hathaway as Catwoman and Tom Hardy as Bane. Your correspondent’s take: could this mean a Nolan-style gloss on the infamous Knightfall storyline? Let’s just hope this one doesn’t end up on a treadmill (am I dating myself? do people get that?).
And a quick rundown: Ricky Gervais blows up the Golden Globes; No Strings Attached fires the first shot in the War of Sexing Friends; there’s a new Spartacus series, in case you needed more breasts and/or blood; and Warner Music Group is on the auction block if you’ve got $360 million lying around.
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If Magneto held the cast of American Idol hostage, could Batman stop him? Or is there something we missed? Sound off in the comments, for this is your … Open Thread.