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Early Buzz: 'This American Life,' 'Dead Poets,' more


Hey, everybody. These headlines are bursting with fruit flavor:

- Sherlock will resume filming next year.

- Tour buses for Styx and Foreigner caught on fire yesterday.

- Ryan Kwanten talks about Jason's surprising sex scene on True Blood last weekend.

- Here are some little-known facts about True Blood.

- Bob Hastings from McHale's Navy has died.

- This American Life has become independent.

- Well, this is sad: World Book Night has been suspended because of lack of funding.

- I love this footage of the cast of Dead Poets Society visiting New York in 1988.

- Burt Reynolds' memoir is due next year.

- Here's a tiny peek at Preacher's TV development.

- What are the 50 greatest summer blockbusters?

- Nylon talks to The Kills.

- Aww, Anna Paquin's Oscar is dressed up with fake eyelashes.

- Variety has a piece about John Oliver's show and how it has "shattered TV's comedy-news format."

- Learn the history of the "peeing Calvin decal."

- Nice Tetris shirt.

- And finally, I vividly remember owning the Scary Stories books and being (delightfully) creeped out by them as a kid.