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Julie Delpy Taking on Joe Strummer, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Tuesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Chris Evans is cold as Iceman … The other Turkey in the news this week… More on the NYFCC awards vote troubles… All three of Jason Segel’s dreams come true… Your student-loan doom explained… and more.

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Julie Delpy Taking on Joe Strummer, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Julie Delpy Taking on Joe Strummer, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Tuesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Chris Evans is cold as Iceman … The other Turkey in the news this week… More on the NYFCC awards vote troubles… All three of Jason Segel’s dreams come true… Your student-loan doom explained… and more.

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Julie Delpy Taking on Joe Strummer, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Revisit the JFK Assassination with a New Errol Morris Short

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 48 years ago today in Dallas, Texas, prompting what would become the biggest single market in conspiracy theories until 9/11. Many of them came bundled in such staggeringly ambitious work as Oliver Stone’s JFK , Don DeLillo’s Libra , and Josiah “Tink” Thompson’s exhaustive Zapruder film study Six Seconds in Dallas — the latter of which filmmaker and Movieline favorite Errol Morris reconnects with today for an intriguing new short exploring the legend of that fateful day’s “Umbrella Man.”

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Twit Wit: 5 Best Tweets About Breaking Dawn, The Descendants, Happy Feet Two, and Poor Natalie Wood

Lots of movie business to tweet about this weekend: Breaking Dawn, Part I made more money than is right for our national health, The Descendants scored a great opening in limited release, Happy Feet Two happened, and everyone is pretending to know who Natalie Wood is. Time to narrow down Twitter’s commentary to five of the weekend’s best movie-related quips. Robert Wagner, you are not culpable for the hilarity herein.

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Silent is Golden: A Chat With The Artist’s Leading Man (and Oscar Frontrunner) Jean Dujardin

A little over six months ago, before The Artist premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, it might have been unthinkable to foresee what has since evolved into a very real possibility: Jean Dujardin, a bona fide movie star in his native France but relative unknown in the United States, is as likely as any contender to date to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Which would be surprising enough without The Artist being a black-and-white French import — a silent black-and-white French import.

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Silent is Golden: A Chat With The Artist’s Leading Man (and Oscar Frontrunner) Jean Dujardin

‘Again I Got Away’: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall DVD Commentary is Priceless

Remember the scene in Total Recall where our foe’s eyes pop out of his head at a climactic moment? Well, your ears will perform a similar feat when you hear Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘s Total Recall DVD commentary with director Paul Verhoeven. It’s as monotone, Austrian, and filled with hearty chuckles as you imagine. It is still funny. In fact, it is the best thing I’ve heard all month.

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Jason Segel on The Muppets, Their Evolution, and Frank Oz’s Criticism

Jason Segel claims he cried when “meeting” Kermit the Frog for the first time, but the self-declared Muppets purist does not sound like a lachrymose superfan when explaining his update of Jim Henson’s brand. As the co-writer and star of The Muppets (out Nov. 23), Segel proves his Muppet mettle with a slick, but classically jovial take on the old troupe. Its swiftness is reminiscent of charming ’90s efforts like A Muppet Christmas Carol while Amy Adams and Chris Cooper’s performances smack of the original Muppet trilogy’s celebrity gusto; the Muppets themselves even conjure the old-school showmanship of the immortal The Muppet Show .

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Boat Captain Says Robert Wagner Responsible for Natalie Wood’s Death

Breaking/shocking update: Not only is the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department re-opening their investigation of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood’s 1981 death, but the boat captain in charge the night she drowned now says that Wood’s husband, Robert Wagner, was to blame.

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Demi Moore Is Divorcing Ashton Kutcher

“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton,” Demi Moore said in a statement to the Associated Press today. “As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.” The announcement arrives after numerous reports of Kutcher’s infidelity around the time of their sixth wedding anniversary in September. [ AP ]

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Bella Swan, Real Girl?

“The Twilight series challenges what I would call the ‘Buffy Summers Maxim’: that teen heroines be physically empowered, oftentimes at the expense of emotional clarity. Bella Swan diverges from many of our more recent teenaged female heroines. The ones who appear in films — the feisty Olive from Easy A , the quirky ironist Juno MacGuff — often seem to be written by thirtysomethings seemingly desperate to revisit high school to work some alchemical magic: turning the abjection of it all into a badge of indie cred. But even the more complicated female heroines of recent young adult fiction — Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games or Katsa of Graceling — embody a suspiciously pleasing, ’empowered’ form of female adolescence.” [ The Hairpin ]

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