Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Tom Hanks contemplates visiting Kathryn Bigelow's frontier... Rome has had it with Robert De Niro... Moe Tucker is lost to the Tea Party... and more...
· A few days after ABC Family canceled its acclaimed new show Huge, a petition to save the series is underway at Jezebel. "Huge created a world in which your body matters, but it's not the only thing to focus on," notes Dodai Stewart. "The characters -- played by actual overweight teens -- were smart, creative, funny, athletic, caring, generous... So much more than just fat. The show only had ratings averaging around 1.9 million viewers. But I'd be willing to guess that for the almost two million people it touched, the impact was really important." Only 95,000 signatures to go to their goal! Anyway, now you know. [Jezebel]
· Tom Hanks is reportedly in talks with Kathryn Bigelow to join Triple Frontier, the director's Hurt Locker follow-up about organized crime in the shared border between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. [Deadline]
· Locals in Rome are unhappy about disruptions caused by Robert De Niro's appearance in Love Manual 3, the latest installment of the popular (there, anyway) romcom franchise featuring De Niro -- speaking Italian -- as "an American professor who falls in love with a colleague, played by Monica Bellucci." [THR]
· I'm getting to this a little late, but come on: Let's not be that surprised ex-**Velvet Underground** drummer Maureen "Moe" Tucker is rocking with the Tea Party these days. Any woman who raised a family while working at Wal-Mart and started a Clinton-era album with a song about class consciousness called "Fired Up" ("I'm fired up/pissed off/I'm tired and I'm mad") is what you might call a quintessential fit for the movement, no?
· ZOMG Green Lantern Web site shriiiiieeeek..... [via /film]
· Fox is turning the Will Smith love-guru hit Hitch into a series. I'll leave it at that. [Deadline]
· Nobel Prize for Chemistry! Represent! US scientist Richard Heck will share this year's award with Japan's Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for their strides in researching carbon atoms. Heck yeah! [AP]