1. The New York Times asks where all of the quote-worthy movie moments have disappeared to in the aughts. Maybe Hollywood screenwriters have simply run out of annoying catchphrases.
2. Jon Stewart is expanding his “Rally to Restore Sanity” to the West Coast. The satellite event will be held in Los Angeles on October 30th at the Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park. [via THR]
3. Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Wahlberg are teaming up on a CIA drama for HBO that will be set in Cold War-era Berlin. [via Deadline]
4. A new exhibition called Nirvana: Taking Punk To The Masses will open at Seattle’s Experience Music Project this April. Included in the show: Kurt Cobain’s previously undisplayed high school paintings and pieces of the first guitar he ever destroyed on stage. [via NME]
5. Facebook is joining MTV, GLAAD, and a host of other organizations to combat anti-LGBT bullying through a “Network of Support.” [via Mashable]
Bonus link: NME Cool List 2010
Today at Flavorpill, we wanted to take a ride on this bizarre tricycle, but we weren’t sure exactly how to go about it. We tripped out over Leo Villareal’s hypnotic light sculptures. We found this handy chart which tallies the insane body count in The Expendables. We wondered if a Destiny’s Child reunion will ever happen. We listened as Christopher Walken read us some things. We were glad that the word “cheeseball” finally made it into the Oxford Dictionary of English. We loved this spoof on 16 & Pregnant. We watched Arcade Fire’s new video for “Ready to Start.” We were intrigued by the news that Mark Wahlberg and James Frey will be working together on a new show for HBO about the porn biz. We reimagined Free Willy as a horror movie. And finally, we wondered what someone did to this poor potato to push him past his breaking point.
1. Someone stole Kanye West‘s Porsche Panamera and crashed it into a multimillion-dollar house in Honolulu, where he has been working on a new album. [via The Daily Swarm]
2. Mark Wahlberg has confirmed that a big-screen adaptation of Entourage is in the works. “In the trailer, you see [Ari and his associate, Lloyd] waking up together in Vegas not knowing what happened. It would be pretty cool!” [via MTV]
3. Jive Records is trying to block Andre 3000 from appearing on “Lookin’ For Ya,” a track off of Big Boi‘s upcoming solo album Sir Luscious Left Foot. You can listen to it here. [via Vulture]
4. You can now rent the NYC apartment that Barack Obama lived in way back in 1981. [via Gawker]
5. Did Gus Van Sant really lobby hard for The Breaking Dawn directing gig? [via The Playlist]
Bonus link: 5 (More) Places to Buy (and Sell) Affordable Art
Another Will Ferrell/Adam McKay collaboration is on the horizon, the duo moving on from lampooning news anchors and NASCAR drivers to a new buddy-cop flick The Other Guys. In the past it was Ferrell’s gleeful idiocy and braggadocio that made characters like Ron Burgundy so quotable; here, he’s relegated as the bespectacled straight man to Mark Wahlberg’s peacock-imitating alpha male.
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HBO’s newest series, How to Make It in America, officially debuts on Valentine’s Day, but they’ve already leaked the pilot online. The show — which stars Bryan Greenberg and Victor Rasuk — focuses on two New York City guys in their twenties who are trying to break into the fashion industries; art galleries, plaid flannels, and Wilhelmina models all naturally figure in. Executive producers include Rob Weiss (who inspired the insane director, Billy Walsh of Entourage), Mark Wahlberg, and creator Ian Edelman, among others.
Watch the pilot, and then download “How to Make it In America: The Mixtape” courtesy of KiD CuDi (who also stars), DJ Green Lantern & Broke Mogul (DECON) after the jump.
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Just like in the fashion industry, we start hearing about new films about two seasons before we get to spend our hard-earned money on them. Here’s a sneak peek at the movies we’ll be talking about next year — will we be mercilessly mocking them or lining up outside the theater for our fourth viewing? Take a look at photos of Mark Wahlberg, Kirsten Dunst, Ryan Gosling, Jerry O’Connell, Vanessa from Gossip Girl, John Cusack, Ben Stiller, and George Clooney from various sets and make your predictions now.
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Today at Flavorpill, we mourned the loss of the world’s oldest dog — a 21-year-old wire-haired dachshund named Chanel. We found more rock reads to add to our ever-growing list and debated what the surprise Beatles Rock Band song will be. We wondered if a new HBO series that stars Steve Buscemi and is executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Mark Wahlberg, and Terence Winter could be anything but awesome. We were pumped for Georgia O’Keefe’s big fall. (By the by, which do you think will be better: the retrospective at the Whitney or the Lifetime Original?) We were jealous of Lou Reed’s new Hamptons digs. We got our mythological creatures all sorted out while listening to the new Jay-Z. And then… Gmail failed.
After getting a sneak preview yesterday, today the trailer for Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones is up and available for your viewing pleasure, with an introduction by Jackson himself. Fifteen-year-old Saoirse Ronan stars at Susie Salmon, the murdered main character who narrates the story from heaven. Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg play her parents, and Susan Sarandon makes what we believe is her grandmotherly debut. Will nerds turn out for a post-LOTR Peter Jackson without the draw of a giant primate? This may help: Pitchfork reports that Brian Eno scored the film. It’s set to open in December — Oscar bait, of course.
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