Also in today's edition of the Broadsheet: Aaron Sorkin takes on Sarah Palin... Christopher Hitchens appeals to Jon Stewart... New Zealand pols take on The Hobbit... and more...
· You can have your Lady Gaga and your Kanye. For my money, Scott Coffey's video for Wolf Parade's "Yulia" is a near-perfect marriage on song and image, inspired on a shoestring, heartbreaking and gorgeous. Its derivation from Cold War cosmonaut mythology is just an added bonus. Your mileage may vary, but after scouring the news wasteland for the last hour I've confirmed there is no more impressive or interesting way to start the day.
· Aaron Sorkin went on television and called Sarah Palin an idiot, because that's the obvious, ideal tack for a filmmaker trying to build a general-interest audience for an Oscar hopeful. Curb your dog, dude. [LAT]
· New Zealand's prime minister is urging peace among Peter Jackson and the country's actors unions, offering his services as a mediator in upcoming negotiations for The Hobbit. [Variety]
· Christopher Hitchens has waded into the ideological muck around Rick Sanchez's firing from CNN for making anti-Semitic remarks targeting Jon Stewart: "The best way to demonstrate the hidden influence of the chosen people would be for Jon Stewart and others to join me in calling for Rick Sanchez's reinstatement. If it then didn't happen, it would help us understand who really pulls the strings around here." Of course it would. [Slate]
· Ray Liotta, Ving Rhames and Christian Slater are aboard the indie cop thriller The River Sorrow, because of course they are. [Variety]
· You can't smoke a cigarette in a bar in Arizona, but you can carry a gun as long as you have a permit for it. Progress! [NYT]
· The latest Nobel Prize deployment has Russian-born, UK-based scientists Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim winning the Physics award for "investigating the ultra-thin properties of carbon flakes known as graphene." Congrats! [NYT]