· In celebration of Turner Classic Movies' annual "Summer Under the Stars" marathon, they've commissioned twelve new one-sheets for classic films. Pictured, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Head over to ropeofsilicon.com to see the others, including The Magnificent Seven, Dr. Strangelove, and Harold Lloyd's Safety Last!.
· A TV writer who worked on Baretta is suing ABC, claiming a pilot he wrote in 1977 was used as the template for Lost. Filed July 10, it claims to share the show's central plot of a "airplane headed to Los Angeles [that] crashes into a tropical jungle-like environment," as well as several other elements, including "a really fat guy who never seems to lose any weight, and meandering, frequently ludicrous narrative that seems to generate itself as it goes along."
· Weird Al's new song, "Skipper Dan," is an incredibly depressing ditty about a failed actor who runs the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland. Has Al gone senile? Who thought this was a good song? I like the Jungle Cruise ride. Let's hear it for Jungle Cruise guides, everyone!
· Channing Tatum, photographed by Mario Testino for GQ. Here's a game: How many strewn props in this bedroom scene actually belong to Tatum? (Answer: Two. The script, and the naked starlet still asleep under the sheets.)
· Robert De Niro is victim of an art scam, and it has nothing to do with starring in Righteous Kill.
· You think Chinese Theater superheroes are the only ones on the wrong side of the law? Check out this Times Square Superman beatdown. (I'm pretty sure those folding chairs are made of Kryptonite.)
· The dire state of runaway production has never been so upbeat and tuneful!