· Disney's Tron Legacy had by far the coolest promotional stunt of anything at Comic-Con with its Flynn's Arcade experience, but -- putting aside the conceptual art they previewed -- the total amount of finished footage screened at the panel amounted to 0 minutes. So what's this nearly three-minute clip, which has appeared and disappeared on YouTube for about a year now, and appears to now be there for good? It's not the trailer, but rather test footage that screened for Comic-Con 2008 audiences. Still, as year-old test footage goes, it should succeed in mercilessly tickling the remote geek-quadrants of your brains.
· Congratulations, HBO! Your Ryan Kwanten-handjob-friendly programming has earned you GLAAD's Squeal of Approval!
· The sweethearts over at Jezebel have some fun with Mad Men's avatar-making web promotion. Those gals are just doll-faces, aren't they? Now if they'd only freshen my bourbon a little more often!
· Richard Rushfield, a Movieline friend and widely considered to be the Roger Angell of the international competitive karaoke circuit, has left the Los Angeles Times for a new position as the West Coast Editor of Gawker, a New York-based media blog. We wish him all the best there.
· Yes, Robert Downey Jr. did describe Holmes' relationship to Jude Law's Watson as being "circumstantial homosexuality" at the Sherlock Holmes Comic-Con press conference, which went a long way towards explaining the unmistakable pizazz the two demonstrated in hunting down a coldblooded killer on the Moors.