Early Buzz: B-52's, Wes Anderson, Stooges and more
I'm back! Thanks for being patient while I recovered from a terrible stomach virus. Last weekend it literally knocked me down — my husband called an ambulance after I fainted in the living room — but now I'm back home, getting better every day.
Let's start the day with a healthy batch of headlines:
- Some sad news: Stooges drummer Scott Asheton has died. His brother, Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton, died in 2009.
- Peanuts is coming to the big screen ... but unfortunately, Charlie Brown doesn't look the same as he did in the animated specials.
- In case you missed it, here's what went down at the Lost 10th anniversary tribute.
- Entertainment Weekly tries to rank the best cult TV shows of all time.
- Watch some Anchorman 2 bloopers.
- The cast of the Veronica Mars movie talks about the film's big moments.
- Fred Schneider of the B-52's has made a PETA video encouraging people to let lobsters rock on.
- Paul F. Tompkins gets Haley Joel Osment to play a game called "I Hear About Dead People."
- This video illustrates Wes Anderson's impeccable composition.
- Neil Young says he's writing a science fiction book in this interview. (Thanks, Largehearted Boy.)
- Check out the trailer for the James Brown biopic. (Thanks, Dainon.)
- The kid from Two and a Half Men looks quite different these days.
- Kiss and Def Leppard are going on tour.
- Workaholics' Anders Holm has joined the CBS pilot with Greta Gerwig.
- Jason Schwartzman did a funny PSA for Alamo Drafthouse.
- Watch a new Boondocks promo.
- Here's a supercut of Big Lebowski references in Veronica Mars.
- This site makes those Reddit AMAs more readable.
- Watch a Lego Movie-inspiredSimpsons "couch gag."
- Nice Dark Crystal wedding cake.
- And finally, I didn't realize Gwar did a Circuit City ad in the '90s. (Thanks, Zack.)