Early Buzz: 'Preacher,' 'The Best Show' and more news
Happy Monday! I hope your weekend was great — aside from my vacuum cleaner catching fire, I can't complain about mine ...
Headlines:
- This is so sad: Barbara Park, the author of the Junie B. Jones books, has died.
- Author Doris Lessing also died over the weekend.
- Is Seth Rogen helping to bring the comic series Preacher to TV?
- Salon has a good piece about a man who walked around New York as "Sikh Captain America."
- Wow, Andy Warhol's portrait of Farrah Fawcett will be debated in a trial.
- Damian Lewis is growing a mustache for Movember.
- I love this article about the (very sad) ending of The Best Show on WFMU.
- The always-busy Betty White talks about what she's been up to lately.
- See David Blaine perform magic for Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston.
- We have an interview with Fables author Bill Willingham.
- Here are some tweets about the Batkid from people in the comics industry.
- I keep waiting for Sam Rockwell to win an Oscar, too.
- Watch Steve Martin give a touching speech.
- See a bunch of pics from the new season of Community.
- Here's a list of all of Tom's business ideas on Parks and Rec, "ranked by viability."
- See Pearl Jam, Carrie Brownstein and St. Vincent cover Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World.
- Here's a roundup of various reasons celebrities have given for not being on Twitter.
- And finally, I love the "Before I Die" art project, which I often passed when it was here in Brooklyn.