QUICK-TIME GALLERY: The 7 Things We Most 'LIKE' Today
1. FAVORITE FAUX POSTER: "TOY STORY 3"
The Shiznit presents its take on how the movie posters should really read for the Best Picture Nominees for the 2011 Oscars. Our favorite faux poster: "Toy Story 3"...
2. FAVORITE SNOW CARTOON: NATE BEELER
As a fellow sufferer of D.C.'s thundersnow gridlock, the Washington Examiner cartoonist offers this quick-toed ode to Jules Feiffer...
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3. FAVORITE SNOW STRIPS: "CUL DE SAC"
If comedy's all in the timing, then Richard Thompson provides a week of snow-themed strips crafted like Swiss timepieces...
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4. FAVORITE HOLLYWOOD LORE: "GARFIELD" CASTING
Did Bill Murray really sign up for his first "Garfield" feature film because he thought the esteemed Joel Coen (Oscar-nominated for "True Grit") -- instead of Joel Cohen was behind the project? Ranker.com can't say for sure, be it does make for a great story...
5. FAVORITE HOLLYWOOD SPOOF: "ANNIE" CASTING
Fresh Prince of Bel Heir, indeed. With this week's news that tween pop star Willow Smith has been cast as the plucky and pupil-less comic moppet Little Orphan Annie (cue Jay-Z's version of "Hard Knock Life"), College Humor serves up this swell music-video parody...
6. FAVORITE COMICS-BLOG LEDE OF THE WEEK: GLEN WELDON
Writing about the death of the CCA seal more than a half-century after McCarthyism, my colleague-in-comics Glen Weldon punnily begins his NPR blog thusly:
"Superfriends, Ronin, Comet Men, lend me your ears.
"I come to bury the Comics Magazine Association of America, not to praise it.
"The evil that mysterious self-censoring publishing associations do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones -- so let it be with the CCMA."
7. FAVORITE TACO BELL CARTOON: MIKE LUCKOVICH
Reports of a legal beef against Taco Bell over its alleged lack of meat in its "beef products" was too good to pass up. Fortunately, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution cartoonist serves up this satiric red meat...
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By
Michael Cavna
| January 28, 2011; 1:00 PM ET
Categories:
General
| Tags:
Cul de Sac, Garfield, Glen Weldon, Little Orphan Annie, Mike Luckovich, Nate Beeler, Toy Story 3
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