Many Open Threads upon you, and the rest of the comments to the days to come.
What goes on? The biggest news is the release of Marvel’s summer blockbuster Thor. Additional casting has been announced for the Hunger Games adaptation, with Wes Bentley joining Jennifer Lawrence and Elizabeth Banks in major roles. Rolling Stone released its reader poll of the Top One-Hit Wonders of All Time, but you have to click through 11 slides to see them; sorry. I’m sorry.
(By the way, here’s something fun: Rolling Stone’s May 4th, 1980 cover story, a sneak peek inside The Empire Strikes Back. There goes an afternoon)
You want a Comment of the Week, perhaps? How about a never-before-awarded Commentariat Triumvirate – a three-way tie awarded to Boonton, Hawkmoth and Travis McClain? They have kept up a deep, engaging discussion in the comment thread of the Economics of the Death Star post. 100+ comments and still literate! And informative! Is that a record? Have we forged a whole new Internet from the ashes of the old?
Anything we missed? Sound off in the comments, for this is your … Open Thread.
Question inspired by the Rolling Stone link: am I just being paranoid, or is “sneak peak” rapidly becoming a widely accepted spelling? And if so, why? I understand (though resist) the loss of “beg the question” and “disinterested” in their original meanings, since you can see by looking at the word/phrase where the error comes from.
But “sneak peak” makes no sense. Anybody have any idea where this comes from?
Perhaps it comes from people simply repeating the motion of typing “ea” instead of the appropriate repeated vowel.
Looks better too, provides visual alliteration to the phonetic and physical, kids these days type super fast using almost purely hieroglyphics and go for feel and timing, it’s like jazz man don’t be a narc punishing people for free expression.
New trailers for X-Men: First Class and Green Lantern were released. While the former is just an extended version, the latter takes on a completely different tone and pitches it… well… just like the X-Men: First Class trailer, actually. Uber serious, highly dramatic, etc.
And Lady Gaga’s new video is out. I reiterate, I’m not really a fan, but I totally recognize her notoriety and popularity.
Oh yeah, and Paradise Lost is being made into a film, with Bradley Cooper as Lucifer.
He doesn’t seem smarmy enough to play Lucifer…
I think he may be able to pull it off, but with effort. He did a decent sort-of-smarmy in He’s Just Not That Into You. Part of the point is, presumably, to get you to feel sorry for Lucifer, and the puppy-dog eyes Cooper is capable of, even while being a total d-bag, could accomplish that.
“…the puppy-dog eyes Cooper is capable of, even while being a total d-bag…”
Never has the core of an actor’s appeal been so accurately and succinctly summarized.