This is actually a few days old now, but I couldn’t not post Uggie, the dog from The Artist, getting his pawprints immortalized outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Can you say “D’aaawwwww…”? He’s even wearing his bowtie, like a proper gentleman. Well, nowadays a bowtie means that you’re either gay or republican or both, but with a dog I still like to think it denotes gentlemanliness. [-Vince, picture via Telegraph]

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Awesome People Hanging Out With Louis C.K. |UPROXX|

10 Rappers Justin Bieber Should Have On His Next Album |Smoking Section|

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Funny, Sexy, And Awesome Cosplay Of The Week |Gamma Squad|

With Leather Poll: What’s The Best Part About This Amazing Baseball Fan Picture? |With Leather|

Urban ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Parody Is The Best Thing a Former-’American Idol’ Contesant Has Ever Done |Warming Glow|

Oh, Lindsay You Tease |IDLYITW|

Johnny Depp is Using His Native American Mysticism to Turn Lesbians Straight |TheSuperficial|

31 Insanely Easy And Clever DIY Projects |Buzzfeed|

10 Things We Should Thank Nora Ephron For |HuffPost Comedy|

The 7 Best Powers of Masters of the Universe |HolyTaco|

Seth MacFarlane’s Rejected Pitches |College Humor|

Wedding Party Fail of the Day |Daily What|

To the dismay of male tourists, Kate Upton kicked off Santa Monica pier for nudity |Fark|

What Do Olympians Eat? 5 Crazy Training Diets |MentalFloss|

This Muppets Test Footage Is Pretty Delightful |Videogum|

12 Popular Television Series Regulars Who Were Originally Written as Minor Characters |Pajiba|

5 Awesome Comedy Documentaries |Unreality|

5 Things Guys Should (but usually don’t) Bring to Music Festivals |Brobible|

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If you look closely, he's actually pinching Jonah Hill's thumb. Movie magic!

With choices ranging from The Artist to Bikini Spring Break, there’s plenty to discuss about this week’s new DVDs.  Besides this year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, there’s Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street, some mythological gods, Julia Roberts, and Eddie Murphy. There’s Catholics and Sikhs and WWE wrestlers trying to act. There’s even a movie about -get this- zombies! What’ll they think of next? All that and the most befuddling box art I have ever seen.

The DVDs:
21 Jump Street
The Artist
Wrath Of The Titans
Mirror Mirror
A Thousand Words
Bullhead
Breakaway
The Perfect Family
Oranges And Sunshine
Best Laid Plans
Bending The Rules
Bikini Spring Break
Second-Story Man
C’mon Man
Father’s Day
Zombiefied

You want to find out which one has that brain-breaking box art?  For that, my friends, you’ll have to keep reading on the next page. (Hint: it’s not Bikini Spring Break -that one’s pretty much what you’d expect.)  If you couldn’t care less about such outdated trappings of physical media, click here for the Netflix instant streaming round-up. Read the rest of this entry »

"And the super cool black president is played by Denzel Washington."

Iconic movie producer and poor tie-wearer Harvey Weinstein was in Paris yesterday, as French President and global poon scout Nicolas Sarkozy inducted him into the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to cinema. It probably didn’t hurt his chances that he produced The Artist, which won every single Academy Award this year, according to my attention span.

But Weinstein told a reporter from the Times of London that being around a president is no big deal for him, so long as that president isn’t pitching movie ideas at him, like a certain guy who currently occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. His name rhymes with Barack Obama.

“The President sent me a book the other day and said ‘Why don’t you make this into a movie?’” Weinstein said. “I can’t tell you [what it was]. It was a spy novel.”

“I sent him an email back saying he was the most overqualified book scout I’ve ever had,” he told the Times of London. (Via The Wrap)

Obviously the story just sort of ends abruptly and Weinstein doesn’t even throw us a bone by telling us what book it is, but thankfully I have years of experience as an investigative journalist and I was able to find out which book Obama suggested to Weinstein…

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"We did it. We fooled the Americans."

As most predicted, The Artist won Best Picture at the 84th Annual Academy Awards last night, which means Drunkards won too. Well three of you who guessed The Artist would win won. And those three are…

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Everyone knows that last night, French actor Jean Dujardin took home a Best Actor Oscar for his work in The Artist. What most people may not know is that back in 2005, he played a surfer named Brice in the film Brice de Nice, which he also wrote. The full synopsis is below, but the important thing is that he sings and dances a rap number in a bank (QUICK! WHAT RHYMES WITH “DOOG LOSS FAR BONKS???”). Call me old-fashioned, but I think all rap songs should be about surfing.

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