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Where Does ‘This is For All the Tostitos’ Rank on the List of All-Time Terrible One Liners?

Well, they all can’t be, “Do you believe in miracles?” Sports fan or not, you’re going to want to watch what happened at the end of the BCS Championship Game between Auburn and Oregon — which Auburn won on a last second field goal, 22-19 — if only because it might have featured the worst one-liner in the history of humanity. Seriously. Worse than even Arnold Schwarzzenger throwing a knife through a guy in Predator , and saying, ” Stick around .” The guilty party was Brent Musburger, the title sponsor of the game was Tostitos, and let’s just say this one will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Click ahead for the carnage.

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Where Does ‘This is For All the Tostitos’ Rank on the List of All-Time Terrible One Liners?

Animal Kingdom’s Jacki Weaver on the Oscar Circuit, Campaign Couture and Going Hollywood

We’re coming up on a year since Jacki Weaver strolled into Park City, Utah with her Animal Kingdom director and castmates, dazzled the Sundance Film Festival and commenced a run of acclaim that continues to this day. But while the film’s sweep last month of its native Australian Film Institute Awards was all but a foregone conclusion, Animal Kingdom ‘s Stateside fortune — particularly Weaver’s chances in the Supporting Actress race at the Golden Globes and, Academy willing, the Oscars — is a little more vague. So! Guess who’s back on American soil this week?

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Animal Kingdom’s Jacki Weaver on the Oscar Circuit, Campaign Couture and Going Hollywood

Stage Musical of Once Set to Debut in the Fall

Any excuse to post ” Falling Slowly ,” is an excuse I’ll gladly take. The New York Times reports that Irish playwright Enda Walsh and the Scottish director John Tiffany will collaborate on the stage adaptation of Once for Broadway. The current plan is to open the show — which will feature music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova — in the fall. Assume this film-to-stage adaptation will go better than Spider-Man . [ NYT /ArtsBeat ]

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Pundit Poll: Can 127 Hours One-Arm Climb Its Way Back into Best Picture Contention?

There was a time when critics and Oscar pundits thought Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours was a lock to nab one of the coveted 10 Best Picture slots — if not in the top three, at least landing somewhere in the comfy middle of the pack. Then came the infamous faintings and those sluggish box-office receipts, and the jaunty amputation biopic started slipping downward in the weekly charts into the dark nether regions of the awards-season landscape, pinned between its rock-solid 93 percent Tomatometer and a very hard place: the outliers of the Best Picture 10.

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DVD: Nothing Goes Viral Like Syphilis(-Themed TV Movies Starring Cloris Leachman)

If you haven’t already had friends leave you a message on your Facebook wall to get yourself over to Netflix Instant immediately to watch Someone I Touched , a 1975 TV-movie about a syphilis outbreak, let me be the one to tell you. The fact that Cloris Leachman, at 49, plays a pregnant housewife, and that she sings the theme song, is just the icing on the cake of looniness. (Not to mention the fact that Leachman was at that time starring in the spin-off sitcom Phyllis , making one long for the inevitable Sy-Phyllis mash-up.)

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DVD: Nothing Goes Viral Like Syphilis(-Themed TV Movies Starring Cloris Leachman)

Sarah Palin’s Alaska Series Finale Recap: Squalid Gold

Bulletin: It’s not a great weekend to be Sarah Palin . Update: I’m going to make fun of her lame show just the same. That’s journalism, and everyone knows it. Join me for the finale of Sarah Palin’s Yukon adventures, where Piper smarts off, everyone giggles over gold, and Sarah ends her reign as TLC’ s second-worst wearer of North Face vests . Democracy wins.

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Watch Snooki and JWoww’s Saturday Night Live Audition Tape

Over the weekend, Jersey Shore stars, budding entrepreneurs and unskilled impressionists Snooki and JWoww made a video of themselves hosting a fake talk show using their best Linda Richman accents. It was part fun, and bigger part revenge on Joy Behar, who has mercilessly (and deservedly?) insulted the duo on The View day in and day out. Click ahead to hear Snooki find her inner yenta and JWoww knowingly reference the Great Depression. Lorne Michaels, do we have the next Coffee Talk on our hands?

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SNL Scorecard: Did Jim Carrey Save a Lackluster Show?

There was something odd about last night’s Jim Carrey-hosted installment of SNL . Between the promos featuring Carrey hitting on Kristen Wiig, his monologue proposal and the good-nights where Carrey emotionally thanked pretty much the entire world, it felt like the episode might have been one big Jim Carrey therapy session. The last time Carrey hosted, May 18, 1996, Carrey wasn’t too far removed from being the guy walking down the street wearing an oversized cowboy hat looking for a copy of the Rhode Island Slut . Now, we have a more mature, certainly a more damaged Carrey hosting for a second time — complicated by hosting on, well, a day that, due to current events, people did not find particularly funny. How did he do? On to the scorecard…

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Weekend Receipts: True Grit Shoots Little Fockers Dead

Marshal Rooster Cogburn finally got his bounty in the form of box office gold as True Grit took the top spot after two weeks in second. Nicolas Cage’s latest camp-a-thon, Season of the Witch came in third and proud Goop-er Gwyneth Paltrow’s Country Strong came in movie-weak at number six. Your weekend receipts are here.

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Where Was The Outrage For The Social Network’s Race-Blind Casting?

The Social Network has become a well-night unstoppable awards juggernaut, picking up yet another accolade this weekend, this time from the National Society of Film Critics. Yet, despite all the kudos, I’m surprised that more people haven’t complained about casting two white Englishmen in the roles of a Brazilian and an Indian American. Folks got worked up into a lather over The Last Airbender this summer; so where’s the outrage now?

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Where Was The Outrage For The Social Network’s Race-Blind Casting?