Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week, on Go Fug Yourself, Charlize Theron was a hot, surprise surprise, in large part because of her Charlizeness. Serena Williams: also hot. So was Jessica Simpson (no, seriously!). Something must be going around. In other news, Meryl Streep blew our minds by hanging out with some Real Housewives, China Chow sported a festive luau poncho, Kate Beckinsale went out in what looked like granny panties, and Piper Perabo’s hair looked like something out of Star Trek married to a pastry. Finally, we decided that someone at Cosmo must really hate ScarJo — and her boobs. Can anyone explain what’s happening on this cover and why?

Today at Flavorpill, we met a woman who is truly terrified by kittens. We watched an all-too-brief preview of the Ab Fab holiday special. We got an interesting look at Tom McCarthy’s computer desktop as part of a new series from The Guardian. We wanted to get our hands on one of these grown-up advent calendars for design dorks. We were surprised to find out how dramatic living in an IKEA catalog can be. We imagined what it would have been like to have Andre the Giant as a head warmer. We wished that we’d known Melissa McCarthy back when she wore turtlenecks as harem pants in high school. We hoped that the new street skiing trend never really catches on. We were surprisingly sad that we’ll never get to wear Hunger Games-inspired nail polish — even if the colors did have awful names like “Baker’s Son” and “Coal-Hearted.” We listened to Scarlett Johansson duet with Dean Martin on “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” We couldn’t believe that the photos on this camera were still intact after spending a year floating around the ocean floor. We wanted to travel somewhere by train. And finally, we saw what Ghostbusters might have looked like as a Dr. Seuss book. Adorable!

1. Scarlett Johansson plans to make her full-length directorial debut with Summer Crossing, an adaptation of Truman Capote’s lost novella. The story, which is set in post-World War II New York City, follows “an 18-year-old girl breaking free of her rich, smothering, family to discover her own identity and sexuality.” [via Variety]

2. Emmy Award-winning actor Jim Parsons could be returning to Broadway this spring to star in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey; whether or not he plays Elwood P. Dowd, a man who claims to be friends with a six-foot-tall rabbit, hinges on if he can juggle the gig with his schedule for The Big Bang Theory. [via ArtsBeat]

3. Deadline is exclusively reporting that Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker will be reteaming with director David Fincher on his upcoming remake of 20,000 League Under the Sea.

4. Some exciting news for lit nerds and/or fans of period dramas: Vulture reports that HBO is partnering with the BBC to develop a new mini-series based on Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall.

5. Did you realize that standup comedian and former Grace Under Fire star Brett Butler wound up broke and homeless after a long battle with drug addiction? She’s now hoping to have a comeback of sorts with a reality show about her psychic abilities. [via THR]

Bonus Buzz: Astronomy Photography Of 2011

Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. We’ve got seven new trailers this week, ranging from family-friendly zombies to haunted hotels to psycho teens; check ‘em out after the jump.

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Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. We’ve got eight new trailers this week, running the gamut from a big-budget superhero all-star tentpole to indies about cross-dressing and prostitution. Check ‘em out after the jump.

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Writer/director Cameron Crowe hasn’t released a movie since 2005′s Elizabethtown. Sure, he’s been rolling our documentaries for the likes of Pearl Jam, but it seems astounding to us that it has been a full six years. In his new, We Bought a Zoo, Matt Damon as a grieving father struggling to be the best parent he can be. So he does what anyone would do in that situation and he buys a zoo, which is, of course, just a metaphor for the wilds of parenting.

There’s a bit of Jerry Maguire, Elizabethtown and all the typical Cameron Crowe heartwarming emotion bordering on schmaltz contained within — like when Thomas Haden Church says, “I like the animals, I love the humans.” The only guarantees are that the movie will have a great soundtrack, you will probably feel guilty for crying at least three times during it and Kevin James, thankfully, is nowhere to be found. Watch the trailer after the jump and let us know if you think Crowe still has it.

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In his Iconatomy series, Swedish artist George Chamoun creates digital collages out of photographs of Hollywood stars from two different eras — and in the process reveals that maybe standards of beauty haven’t changed as much as we thought over the past few decades. The most challenging part for him? Finding the right images to pair together. “This project has been a lot about ideals, patterns, and anatomy,” he writes. “The pictures are not morphed in any way. What you see is a collage of two different people in each picture.” Click through to see the interesting results, and let us know in the comments which “Franken-celebrity” you think works best.

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As we’ve previously stated, we feel like a lot of the negative reaction to Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson’s debut album of Tom Waits covers, was more about who she was as opposed to what she sounded like. Today we bring you the latest cover by the singing actress, a duet with Serge Gainsbourg’s son, Lulu, that will appear on the forthcoming tribute album From Lulu To Gainsbourg. Does her version of “Bonnie & Clyde” live up to Brigitte Bardot’s original performance? Click through and let us know what you think in the comments.

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Some possibly exciting news, depending on how you feel about extremely fast-paced dialogue that’s chock full of pop culture references. According to our friends at Vulture, Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is working on a TV adaptation of The Nanny Diaries for ABC. While the 2007 film adaptation of the book — which starred Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, and Paul Giamatti — is currently sitting at a not-so-pretty 33% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, we could actually picturing this urban fairy tale working out on the small-screen as long as Alexis Bledel agrees to play the nanny and Lauren Graham quits Parenthood to play Mrs. X (we’re only half kidding). Even if that doesn’t happen, we’ll probably get sucked into watching a few episodes, just like we did with Sherman-Palladino’s last effort, The Return of Jezebel James. How about you?

Conventional music wisdom is a tedious business. Given that rock ‘n’ roll was supposed to be about self-expression and individualism, it’s rather sad that such an orthodoxy has arisen around music criticism over the years — there’s the albums that you’re absolutely not allowed to dislike (our distaste for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band always gets us in trouble here), and conversely, there’s the albums that it’s pretty much taken as read that everyone hates. This can be a pretty dirty business — while there are certain albums that absolutely deserve all the vitriol that has been poured upon them, there’s also those that have been unfairly maligned. Here’s a selection of ten albums that we think have got a raw deal from the critics. What are your suggestions?

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