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You Have Part of My Attention: Mark Zuckerberg Named Time Magazine Person of the Year

Alternate headline: “If you were the inventors of Time magazine’s Person of the Year, you would have invented Time magazine’s Person of the Year.” What started as a rough morning for the makers of The Social Network turned around in a hurry. Late last night the San Diego Critics Society broke ranks with their film critic brethren and voted Winter’s Bone as top film of 2010 instead of The Social Network (punishment will be meted out later this afternoon). Before David Fincher and friends could cry in their Kashi Go Lean, though, Time magazine swooped in this morning and named Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg as their Person of the Year. Suck on that, Ree Dolly!

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You Have Part of My Attention: Mark Zuckerberg Named Time Magazine Person of the Year

You Have Part of My Attention: Mark Zuckerberg Named Time Magazine Person of the Year

Alternate headline: “If you were the inventors of Time magazine’s Person of the Year, you would have invented Time magazine’s Person of the Year.” What started as a rough morning for the makers of The Social Network turned around in a hurry. Late last night the San Diego Critics Society broke ranks with their film critic brethren and voted Winter’s Bone as top film of 2010 instead of The Social Network (punishment will be meted out later this afternoon). Before David Fincher and friends could cry in their Kashi Go Lean, though, Time magazine swooped in this morning and named Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg as their Person of the Year. Suck on that, Ree Dolly!

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You Have Part of My Attention: Mark Zuckerberg Named Time Magazine Person of the Year

Will a Rise in Cyber-Terrorism Make Thrillers and Action Films Boring?

So, yes, a group of anonymous hackers broke into Gawker’s system and compromised the security of up to 1.3 billion users in what some are calling one of the largest attacks on a media site to date. But, depending on your level of paranoia, it gets worse. Others have argued that this attack – taken with the recent attacks on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal in response of Wikileaks reprimands – signals a new era of cyber-terrorism where small groups can wreak mass amounts of havoc at will. After taking all of this in, I did what I usually do when the news unsettles me a bit: I thought about movies. Then I realized that a sharp rise in cyber-terrorism will probably ruin movies too.

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Will a Rise in Cyber-Terrorism Make Thrillers and Action Films Boring?

Will a Rise in Cyber-Terrorism Make Thrillers and Action Films Boring?

So, yes, a group of anonymous hackers broke into Gawker’s system and compromised the security of up to 1.3 billion users in what some are calling one of the largest attacks on a media site to date. But, depending on your level of paranoia, it gets worse. Others have argued that this attack – taken with the recent attacks on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal in response of Wikileaks reprimands – signals a new era of cyber-terrorism where small groups can wreak mass amounts of havoc at will. After taking all of this in, I did what I usually do when the news unsettles me a bit: I thought about movies. Then I realized that a sharp rise in cyber-terrorism will probably ruin movies too.

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Will a Rise in Cyber-Terrorism Make Thrillers and Action Films Boring?

More Awards: The Social Network Will Not Settle for 2nd Place

You know what’s better than winning most of the best picture awards? Winning all of them . Or so it would seem. The San Francisco Film Critics and The Toronto Film Critics have both announced their awards and The Social Network came out on top again, right on the heels of its Best Picture awards from

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Late Night Highlights: Chris Colfer Debuts New Haircut, Tells Jay Leno a Bully Revenge Story

He may have missed the Glee cast performance on The X-Factor due to Warbler scheduling conflicts, but Chris Colfer was able to escape set for a few hours to debut a new haircut on The Tonight Show and tell Jay Leno about the time he literally led a high school bully into a pile of sh*t. Elsewhere, Mila Kunis complained about the Black Swan diet, Jimmy Fallon impersonated Justin Bieber, Russell Brand talked about the sex appeal of a Prius, and Charlie Day discussed the lost Danny DeVito prison rape scene.

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Late Night Highlights: Chris Colfer Debuts New Haircut, Tells Jay Leno a Bully Revenge Story

REVIEW: Garden of Eden Isn’t Just Lesser Hemingway; It’s the Worst of Him

Though based on the Hemingway novel published 25 years after his death, Hemingway’s Garden of Eden feels more like the result of an ungodly alliance between Harlequin house writers and the cut-and-paste masterminds at A&E Biography . Hemingway worked on the novel from 1946 until his death, leaving its 200,000 words unpublished. The story is roughly autobiographical, derived in part from to his second marriage (to wealthy Pauline Pfeiffer), but allusions to Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, whom Hemingway reviled, seem to figure as well. As adapted by former Paris Review editor James Scott Linville and directed by John Irwin, The Garden of Eden suggests the bad first novel that Hemingway never wrote. There’s a reason This Side Of Paradise never made it to the screen.

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REVIEW: Garden of Eden Isn’t Just Lesser Hemingway; It’s the Worst of Him

Jesse Eisenberg on Using Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and His Next Project (Which May Involve You)

Last week I met actor Jesse Eisenberg for a lengthy discussion of subjects ranging from his coming-of-age in the New York theater to his beloved Zombieland and his awards-season prospects for The Social Network. We covered a lot of ground, which I’ll be retracing this week in a five-part series here at Movieline. As our impromptu Hell’s Kitchen rendezvous continued, Jesse Eisenberg naturally drifted into the subject The Social Network was in part based on: Facebook, and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The actor elaborated on his (short) experience on Facebook, the possibility of sending Mark Zuckerberg ill-advised late night emails, if he can still walk down the street without being recognized (or, as it turns out, without being given a noogie) and his new project — which just may wind up somehow involving you.

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Oscar Index: Does True Grit Have the Horses For Awards Season?

Another week, another prowl through the sweltering maze of hyperbole and hypothesis that is Oscar season. Put on Take off your thinking cap — it’s time to speculate with the best of them (informedly so, sort of, but still)! On to the Index!

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Armie Hammer on Social Network, Obeying David Fincher and His ‘Cheesy Christian Movie’

Of all the conversations encircling The Social Network on its way to awards-season glory, few have had the surprising resonance accompanying Armie Hammer’s performance at Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss — identical twins who go to war against their Harvard peer Mark Zuckerberg for the rights to Facebook. A marvel of both technical acting and digital wizardry, Hammer’s dual performance is all the more revelatory for the relatively unheralded 24-year-old actor who pulled it off. And to think we indirectly owe it all to Home Alone .

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