· Whereas most porn-industry alums take the scenic route through genre films and cable TV while crossing over to the mainstream, Jenna Jameson wants to have her real breakthrough on Broadway. The hardcore legend is reportedly in talks to join the musical Rock of Ages as Justice, the owner of the Venus Strip Club who belts the critical number "Any Way You Want It." Says Jameson: "I'm praying I get the role. Broadway has always been a dream of mine ever since I was a little girl. I am really excited. [...] I just hope I have enough talent to carry the role." Ha! This is Rock of Freaking Ages, Jenna -- starring Constantine Maroulis. Trust me, you'll be fine. [NYP]
· Columbia has optioned author Neil Strauss's Emergency! This Book Will Save Your Life as a project for Robert Downey Jr. and his wife/superproducer Susan Downey. Allan Loeb is adapting the story, about a man forced to persist in a world of "paranoid fantasies and crippling doubts, of shady lawyers and dangerous cult leaders, of billionaire gun nuts and survivalist superheroes, of weirdoes, heroes, and ordinary citizens taking their families off the grid." OK, so it's basically inverted Iron Man. Does Marvel get a cut? [LAT]
· Mandate Pictures has won the bidding war for the rights to Day of the Triffids, novelist John Wyndham's sci-fi classic and the source of a 1962 film -- about meteorites that crash into Earth, unleashing killer plants -- that Sam Raimi reportedly wants to update. [Deadline]
· Roger Ebert is the subject of another blistering takedown and subsequent commenter skirmish -- and Armond White is nowhere to be found! For what it's worth, Ebert couldn't be happier. [The Rumpus]
· Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers has apparently been banned from Netflix. This has opened up a conversation about the DVD giant's stranglehold on content -- not to mention prompted this list of where you can find the grotesque, garbage-sexing effort. [Filmmaker]
· Is this the single stupidest headline in the history of the Internet? (Hint: Probably.) [PopEater]
· Yay, another Twilight Zone remake that will spin indefinitely in development hell, get excited, etc. [Deadline]