1. "Going, Gently or Otherwise, into That Good Night": Paul Newman biographer Shawn Levy speaks on the swirl of rumors surrounding the actor.
["I have known for a while that Newman was very ill, probably with cancer, and today the internet is flooded with the news that it's lung cancer and that it's not good; there aren't very good sources on any of these stories, and nobody has any shocking exlusives, but given what I know I find every word of them credible (here's an example, for completeness's sake). He's 83, and his next birthday is in January, and we can only hope he'll make it. "]
2. "Film Content, Editing, And Directing Style Affect Brain Activity, Neuroscientists Show": Somewhere, Brett Ratner cackles.
["Using advanced functional imaging methods, New York University neuroscientists have found that certain motion pictures can exert considerable control over brain activity. Moreover, the impact of films varies according to movie content, editing, and directing style. Because the study, which appears in Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, offers a quantitative neuroscientific assessment of the impact of different styles of filmmaking on viewers' brains, it may serve as a valuable method for the film industry to better assess its products and offer a new method for exploring how the brain works."]
3. "E-N writer Burr resigns amid ethics investigation": Interesting story of a journalist and his ghostwriter, now come back to haunt. Check out the article, then go to the guy's website and read "News Flash" for an, um, alternate perspective.
["Well-known San Antonio Express-News music writer and columnist Ramiro Burr, facing allegations that he hired a ghostwriter to produce more than 100 stories and columns since 2001, tendered his resignation Tuesday afternoon as the newspaper’s investigation into this and other violations of the newspaper’s ethics policies by Burr was drawing to a conclusion."]
4. "Secret terror files left on train": Oopsie-daisy.
["Police are investigating a "serious" security breach after a civil servant lost top-secret documents containing the latest intelligence on al-Qaeda. The unnamed Cabinet Office employee apparently breached strict security rules when he left the papers on the seat of a train. A fellow passenger spotted the envelope containing the files and gave it to the BBC, who handed them to the police. The official was later suspended from his job, the Cabinet Office announced."]
5. "Bestiality trial judge in animal sex pic shock": This headline just made my poor little brain explode. Thanks Inquirer!
["A LONG-AWAITED obscenity trial has been suspended after a newspaper ran a yarn claiming the Chief Judge in the case had posted sexually explicit photographs and videos on his own web site. ... One picture in question was of nude women on all fours painted to look like cows. Another video on the site showed a semi-naked man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal, the Times claimed"]
Quote of the Day: John A. Simone, Sr.
Image of the Day (click to enlarge): William Speruzzi of This Savage Art sends along a recent project. My money's on Abel. 
Clip of the Day: Superhero Fashion Emergency, or He-Man and Skeletor go Clubbing
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Links for the Day (June 12th, 2008)
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Re #1: Terrible news about a great star who became a better and better actor with age.
Re #4: They should have mailed them to the Marx brothers.
Neurocinematic studies? This can't be good, not at all. Neorologists -- brilliant as the are -- have no definitive answers on anything when it comes to really understanding or theorizing the brain, perception, interpretation, and sensation. I dread the day when cognitivism, neurocinematic studies, and other psychologistic inquiries into cinema come to dominate film studies.
Re #5: From a WSJ law blog (alas, not belonging to one Bob Loblow) regarding the computer that the pics were posted on: Apparently, all the family uses it.
Good for them.
#1: Oh man.
Re #1: The news about one of our greatest and most consistently compelling actors is sad to be sure - but why not honor the poor guy with a picture of him and his wife of some 50 years? That's damn near unheard of in Hollywood, yet he's pictured here with Martha Stewart? Blech.
#1: Yeah, I understand that the photo with Martha Stewart is a recent one showing that Newman's lost weight, but I agree with Burbanked: He should be pictured next to his lovely beautiful extremely talented wife.
I'm finding myself disproportionately saddened by this news. Disproportionate only because I do not know Paul Newman. How strange that we can feel close enough to people we have never even met to feel as sad or sadder than for people we may actually know.
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