the i in we

Did you see the video of Beyonce falling down in concert? It was a huge fall – tumble down stairs – and later in the concert she pleads with the audience to not post it on youtube. (I saw it there; check DailyMotion if it’s been removed.) How weird that A) that question didn’t exist just a few years ago, and B) she now knows – and other entertainers know – that you can’t trust your audience. I think they are right in posting it; there’s no way she could ask 100s of people to not do something and expect her wishes to be granted. But I think it does set up an interesting angle to the idea of trust between an audience and entertainer.

To be read in a British accent: Those who collude in the public degradation of gifted young women are beneath contempt“

Jon Stewart takes Alberto Gonzales to the cleaners (Ay mami!)

Oh snap – the lead in Time Traveler’s Wife? Bana! (PS – have you read Eat Pray Love yet? Get on that!)

As long as I am writing about great books being made into movies, I watched the new trailer for “Atonement” yesterday and it was just as I feared. It looks as though the focus has moved away from the youngest child to the eldest, who is being played by Keira Knightley in all her flat-chested British-woman-in-distress glory. Sigh. Read that one before the movie comes out too, ‘kay?

Aquafina = tap water

A Paul Rudd picture moment

Lost scoop

Girly talk linked to depression