Today in viral videos: Isabella Rossellini is a weird mom, The Simpsons get a Robot Chicken remix, Daft Punk by way of goat, and four lovely minutes of animals sneezing.
The perpetual baby stars in a nominated animated short, and Facebook fans are helping to choose among real-life Oscar gown counterparts — from last year's Angelina to Jennifer Lawrence's memorable red number from the year before that.
The state of Florida has a bounty out on invasive pythons, luring amateur snake killers into the Everglades for a month-long hunt. Hilarious, right? Not to those who say it encourages cruelty and does little to solve conservation problems.
The Simpsons' resident evil zillionaire Montgomery Burns decided Mitt Romney needed his endorsement on a day where the President got the call from The Economist and Michael Bloomberg.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Under a new law meant to protect kids from on-screen violence, Russian authorities are going to start censoring television shows, including cutting out the fictional kids' show Itchy and Scratchy from episodes of The Simpsons.
Today in showbiz news, everyone's favorite downtown diva is heading out West, Catching Fire has once and for all declared its Finnick, and Paul Haggis assembles an A-team.
In a blunder of Homer-sized proportions, the Postal Service spent $1.2 million too much in printing one billion commemorative Simpsons stamps, only 318 million of which sold, Bloomberg's Angela Greiling Keane reports.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
No one may ever know in which state the Simpsons actually live, and Matt Groening's here to keep it that way after people mistook an answer he gave Smithsonian magazine about the inspiration for Springfield, the world's most generic town.
"Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon." [Matt Groening interview in Smithsonian Magazine.]
Today in publishing and literature: Random House increases the price libraries have to pay for e-books, a Jose Saramago novel sees the light-of-day 59 years after it was written, and the house where Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's sells for $11 million
Interactive maps, theme song covers, and a list of the best spiked episodes accompanied the show's 500th episode Sunday night.
The Simpsons have now joined Barbie as targets of an Iranian crackdown, putting one of the iconic blonde doll's biggest critics on the same blacklist as her.
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Julian Assange is going to have a guest spot on the 500th episode of The Simpsons airing in February, and getting the elusive face of Wikileaks onto the show sounds like something out a spy novel, reports Entertainment Weekly.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: The Simpsons take a swipe at Fox News, the easy charm of print books after hours, and the first teaser for Eastbound & Down will restore your faith in the HBO comedy.
Today in books: Martin Scorsese will direct another book based on an intricately plotted detective story, Europe's e-book pricing woes, and Neil Gaiman is a good sport on The Simpsons.
Voice actors agree to take a pay cut
Plus: Disney CEO Bob Iger sets a timetable for his departure
That's the deadline (Pacific time) for the cast to accept a pay cut to continue the series.
Plus: The Coen Brothers are creating a private eye comedy for Fox
Plus: Fox responds to the "Black Swan" intern lawsuit
Plus: Imagining a 'Simpsons'-specific cable network
Flattery, shaded language, and lies are key
The show's genius doesn't rely just on contemporary references
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