In the spirit of those awkward local news segues where they jump from a tragedy to a tacky local interest puff piece without batting an eyelash, this seems like a perfectly horrible time to point out a supremely crass (and excellent) fake website [UPDATE: Perhaps bowing to pressure from advocacy groups for the disabled, DreamWorks has killed Simple Jack.] [...]

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AP reports that 71-year-old Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is hospitalized in ’serious condition’ after being involved in an auto accident in Mississipi just before midnight Sunday.
Few details are known, though a police spokesman says Freeman’s car went airborne off the highway and landed in a ditch. He was conscious and joking with rescuers while being extricated from the vehicle.
My [...]

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Jean Rochefort and Terry Gilliam are Lost in La Mancha
My overriding thought as I watched Lost in La Mancha, the documentary about Terry Gilliam’s imploding Don Quixote movie, was that the film starring Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort might’ve been interesting had it ever gotten finished. Well, according to Showbiz Spy, Terry Gilliam is talking [...]

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Andrew Garfield is Boy A
After last weekend’s multiplex disaster, LiC stuck to the arthouse theaters this weekend. The results were decent if unspectacular.
First up was the UK drama Boy A. Adapted from the novel by Jonathan Trigell, it tells the story of a young man released from prison after spending most of his childhood locked [...]

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