1. Salma Hayek is teaming with ABC to develop an eight-hour miniseries adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which already inspired an incredibly successful Broadway musical. Any casting suggestions? [via TVLine]

2. Last night Julian Casablancas inexplicably tweeted fake cover art for The Strokes’ upcoming album, which is due out in March. At least we think it’s fake… [via Vulture]

3. Baz Luhrmann is thinking about shooting his upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby in 3D, which leads us to believe it’s going to be more of an Australia for the director than a Moulin Rouge. [via Forbes]

4. Ryan Murphy has confirmed that Gwyneth Paltrow will reprise her role as Holly Holliday for two episodes of Glee in the spring; the plotline will involve her subbing for the sex ed teacher and (briefly?) dating Mr. Schuester. [via EW]

5. A Weekly World News story claiming that Facebook is shutting down on March 15th — because “managing the site has become too stressful” for Mark Zuckerberg — sent the Internet into a tailspin. Obviously it’s about as true their latest Bat Boy sighting. [via Gawker]

Bonus link: First Peek At 2011 No Pants Subway Ride

We’ve spent quite a while celebrating the people and things we liked best in 2010, from underrated albums, actors, and films to art shows to comic books. But we can’t end the year without a look back at the folks we — and seemingly everyone else on the internet — loved to hate. From deranged actors and mouthy musicians to a controversial art-world player and a film and theater director who seems to be having the worst year ever, these are the ten cultural icons who pissed us off most this year.

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For a year when the Death of Print Media meme was already old news, the dinosaurs of publishing managed to come up with more than their share of provocative content in 2010. (Hey, maybe it’s because they were fighting for their livelihoods.) From a bloody, naked threesome to questionable Photoshop practices to one of Afghanistan’s most wrenching war photos, we look back at the year’s ten most controversial magazine covers.

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1. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, making him the second youngest recipient of the award ever, after Charles Lindbergh in 1927. In case you’re curious, the Tea Party was the runner-up among Time editors (and the top choice among readers), followed by Julian Assange, Hamid Karzai, and the Chilean miners. [via MSNBC]

2. Meet the 2011 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Alice Cooper, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Darlene Love, and Tom Waits. The ceremony will take place on March 14th at the Waldorf Astoria. [via Billboard]

3. “Yeah, it’s cornier. Well, corny’s not a dirty word for us either. When you’re talking about a young-adult adventure story, there’s something very simple and elemental about those kinds of stories. You don’t want to change that. It’s what’s compelling about them as stories. It’s where they get their power.” – The Coen Brothers talk to Vanity Fair about the ending of True Grit

4. Adult Swim has ordered a pilot for a new live-action comedy about the skateboarding world called Shredd: The Jon Johnsonsen Story that will be co-produced by Jack Black and Jason Lee. Lee will also star in it. [via Screen Rant]

5. True Blood casting update: Dane DeHaan (Jesse from HBO’s In Treatment) will play Timbo, one of the teens Jason takes care of in Hotshot. Rebecca Wisocky (who is Principal Nowack on 90210) has scored the part of Queen Mab. [via Deadline]

Bonus Link: The Big Picture’s 2010 in Photos

1. After Harvey Weinstein personally argued his position at yesterday’s hearing, an MPAA board has unanimously overturned the NC-17 rating on Blue Valentine. The film will be given an R rating instead. [via Deadline]

2. The Winklevoss twins — who already walked away with a $65 million settlement — are suing Mark Zuckerberg again because they say that they didn’t get enough money the first time around. [via Gawker]

3. In related news, Armie Hammer, who played both twins in The Social Network, has been cast to play Leonardo DiCaprio’s lover in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film Hoover. [via Just Jared]

4. This is the world we live in: Snooki will be placed inside a ball (mind you, not The Ball) that will drop in Time Square during MTV New Year’s Bash while the rest of the Jersey Shore cast tries to break the world record for fist pumping. [via THR]

5. HBO has passed on Alan Ball’s new pilot, All Signs of Death, which “follows a slacker suffering from PTSD as he works in crime-scene clean-up.” Sounds dark. Maybe it’s something that AMC would want to pick up? [via EW]

Bonus link: Jonathan Franzen’s Awkward Family Photo

Today at Flavorpill, we couldn’t decide whether to be impressed or depressed by the world’s first graffiti on polar icebergs. We were oddly mesmerized by this supercut of characters saying “blah blah blah” in films. We got a good look inside of Mark Zuckerberg’s old Palo Alto rental. We loved this series of minimalistic posters by Justin Van Genderen that look at some great comic book/graphic novel locations. We played a round of tech blog bingo. We decided that David Bowie and Bing Crosby are greater than Jack Black and Jason Segel — at least when it comes to dueting on “Little Drummer Boy.” We met Brad Ellis, the quiet bearded man who plays the piano on Glee. We thought that Snoop Dogg looked pretty sharp in a naval uniform. And finally, we wondered if moving to Boulder, CO, would increase our IQ. It’s number one on Portfolio.com’s list of America’s smartest cities, while New York didn’t even crack the top 25.

1. In his first on-camera interview since the release of The Social Network on 60 Minutes last night, Mark Zuckerberg revealed details about the new look of your Facebook profile. Watch it here here.

2. Were you one of the 75 people who watched Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum play a very rare surprise show at a Bushwick loft space called The Schoolhouse on Saturday night? If not, check out some audio clips here. [via The Measure]

3. George Lucas may be trying to digitally resurrect dead actors in order to have them all star in a movie together. [via Collider]

4. “Now let me try to answer the question you might be asking yourself at this point: was I boring? Yes, I might have been. In hindsight, I probably should have read a few pages from my book to give the audience a feel for it, and I did struggle with a few explanations. But I was not lazy and neither was Deborah. We were both working very hard at our task.” – Steve Martin responds to ArtWorldInterviewgate

5. Tumblr went down yesterday afternoon, and it’s still down now. So, what are we supposed to do with our day? [via The Next Web]

Bonus link: 15 egregious MPAA screw-ups

1. George W. Bush’s political memoir Decision Points sold 220,000 copies in its first day. Just for comparison’s sake, Bill Clinton’s My Life sold 400,000. It can’t be because Dubya’s not doing enough promotional interviews… [via Vulture]
2. Do you think that Lady Gaga, Jonathan Franzen, or Mark Zuckerberg have any shot of winning Time’s Person of the Year award when they’re going up against The Unemployed American and The Chilean Miners?
3. “We thought we’d do a lot of things that we’d never done: a full tour of Canada, a documentary, coffee-table book, live album, a boxed set. It was one long project that took almost three years. Now that we’ve gotten a lot of that out of our system, Meg and I can get back in the studio and start fresh.” – Jack White on a White Stripes reunion
4. Read a brief history of Soft Skull — “the quintessential New York City indie press” — as it closes its NYC office and moves to Berkeley. [via Bookslut]
5. Judd Apatow defends his record on female characters and talks about his new female-centric pilot for HBO about a group of women in New York in their mid-twenties. [via Jezebel]

Bonus link: The 18 Best Concept Albums of the 21st Century (So Far)

Halloween: It’s always more complicated than you want it to be. Even if you’ve got your plans set, it’s a struggle to find the perfect costume — without resorting to the same crappy, overpriced, pre-packaged getups everyone else will be wearing. So, this October, Flavorpill is helping you out with easy, weekly DIY costume guides tackling four different pop-culture realms. Don’t worry — there’s no sewing involved.

For this third installment, we’re tackling some of the year’s biggest films, from zeitgeist-y smashes to campy flops. Whether you’re goth or glam, nerdy or mysterious, or long to emulate a total trainwreck, explore your movie-inspired costume options after the jump.

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Today at Flavorpill, we watched Julianne Moore cry her eyes out. Repeatedly. We checked out American Book Review’s list of the 100 best first lines from novels. (A personal favorite: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”) We were dubious about tonight’s Twittersode of Community, which will act as a prequel to the season premiere. It’s not necessarily a bad idea, we’ve just yet to see Twitter integrated into a TV show in a way that works. We listened to the Olsen Twins slowed down. We wished that the world’s tiniest pastries were made for people and not dolls. (They look almost as delicious as these jam and marmite on toast portraits.) We learned the truth about why the Titanic sank. We wondered how Steve Jobs feels about Mark Zuckerberg passing him on the Forbes rich list. We crushed a little harder on Kristen Schaal thanks to this trailer for The Book of Sexy Sex. And finally, on that note, we were glad to discover that it’s National Sexual Freedom Day. So go forth, and get it on. Or not. It’s your choice!