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‘In Short, Catching Hell is a Horror Film’

In addition, that is, to an exceptional Alex Gibney documentary premiering tonight on ESPN : “How could the Cubs, up 3-0 and five outs away from the World Series, manage to lose 8-3? Did the players feel the expectation and the dread of its upending and so fulfill their fans’ darkest fears? And why was it that once that game six was lost, most of the fans in Wrigley — and even some of the players, as it turns out — were certain that they would lose the next day, as if the fates had decided to twist the knife in their wound?” [ Grantland ]

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64-Year-Old Man Unwittingly Recreates 127 Hours Survival Story

Eight years after Aron Ralston cut off his own arm to free himself from a boulder in Utah’s Little Blue John Canyon, a 64-year-old North Carolina man faced a similar survival nightmare while hiking in the same Utah desert earlier this month. Even though Amos Wayne Richards had seen 127 Hours — the Danny Boyle film starring James Franco that chronicled Ralston’s hiking disaster — he still set out for a solo hike without telling anyone of his plans. Richards broke a leg, dislocated his shoulder and was forced to survive four days on rain water and a pair of protein bars before attracting the attention of a helicopter pilot overhead with the flash on his camera. Lesson learned this time? [ EW via AP ]

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Ex-Mobster: John Travolta Isn’t Man Enough To Play John Gotti

“For John Gotti Sr, you need a man’s man to play that role,” critiqued former mobster Lewis Kasman about John Travolta’s casting in the upcoming crime-boss biopic from Barry Levinson . “He’s a thug, so you need someone who’s a thug… a guy who grew up in that life.” Apparently, Travolta’s Oscar-nominated Saturday Night Fever performance doesn’t hold much weight among the mob set either: “John Gotti Sr. never danced a dance in his life.” [ Daily Mail ]

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5 Suggested Na’vi-riffic Rides for the Avatar Experience at Disney World

According to a report from insider tipsters, Disney is set to announce that they’ve licensed the rights to adapt James Cameron’s Avatar into a series of theme park rides at Disney World’s Animal Kingdom in Florida. The news follows a long battle between Disney and rival amusement parkers Universal Studios for rights to the 20th Century Fox property, but the Avatar -Disney marriage makes good sense for a few reasons or five. Let’s help Disney plan the most Na’vi-riffic Avatar experience possible with these proposed attraction ideas!

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Steven Spielberg Doesn’t Want Lincoln Biopic to Become ‘Political Fodder’

While discussing the presidential biopic that he is gearing up to shoot in Richmond this fall, Steven Spielberg described what he does not want Lincoln to be. The 2012 title will “not [be] a battlefield movie. There are battles in it, and being in Virginia, we have access to those historic battlefields.” Additionally, “the movie will be purposely coming out after next year’s election. I didn’t want it to become political fodder.” On the other hand, Lincoln will chronicle “the great work Abraham Lincoln did in the last months of his life.” The drama stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president of the United States alongside Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and John Hawkes. [ Orlando Sentinel ]

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Twenty Cigarettes Might Be the Best Movie Ever

“I wanted to do a portrait film with extended takes. Smoking came into it later, as the ploy to get people to stand still and not be totally conscious of being filmed, although a big part of Twenty Cigarettes is that very self-consciousness of a person in front of a camera and how that changes over time. Cigarettes also have this built-in duration and people will smoke at a different rate, and they’ll smoke the whole cigarette or part of the cigarette. Smoking has such a stigma now, especially in the U.S., so I thought it would be interesting to make a film where I won’t have any value judgment at all on smoking.” Sorry! This has NC-17 written allllll over it . [ NYT ]

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The Case For Eddie Murphy

“Even with all the Norbit -level garbage he’s been in, all the shit that he’s done to hurt his career (like when he stormed out of the Academy Awards after not winning the Best Supporting Actor award in 2007), I still root for Eddie Murphy, hoping he’ll return to the glory days of Beverly Hills Cop and Trading Places and Delirious , the same way I still listen to every Weezer album, hoping they’ll record one more song as good as ‘Jamie.'” Totally fair. Will you settle for Beverly Hills Cop 4 ? [ SplitSider ]

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Josh Hartnett on the Samurai Western Mash-Up Bunraku and Life Outside of Hollywood

It’s no coincidence that Josh Hartnett has been off the grid, so to speak, in the years following his most recent string of mainstream turns ( The Black Dahlia, Resurrecting the Champ, 30 Days of Night ); after spending a decade in Hollywood, the 33-year-old tells Movieline, other interests and challenges called. “I’ve been trying out a lot of different things,” Hartnett explained during a chat about his latest art film endeavor, Guy Moshe’s hyper-stylized Bunraku . “I started this business so young, I kind of grew up in it… I’m just living a rather unique life, I think, and I enjoy it.”

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Attention NYC Baristas: Do Not Screw With Alec Baldwin

Let this be a cautionary tale for all baristas in the New York metropolitan area: If you mouth off to Alec Baldwin, he will report you on Twitter. “Starbucks on 93 and B’way. Uptight Queen barrista [sic] named JAY has an attitude problem.” You’ve been warned. [ @AlecBaldwin ]

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Which Twilight Pair Tweeted a Pic of Themselves in Spandex as ‘The Wonder Twins?’

While November’s sequel The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 approaches slowly but surely, at least two of the franchise’s long-time cast members are spending their downtime cavorting around in even more fantastical fashion — in matching his ‘n’ hers superhero costumes that transform them into the comic book duo known as “The Wonder Twins.” Hit the jump to discover which Twilight fan favorites suited up in spandex for your weekend gawking pleasure.

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