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H H P ridiculousness and ) W W It’s time to fix this world, A ? I ? Y NG MIL I I FA scatological antics made B N and this is about that. DER M INI M Jonathan Ames this homoerotic thriller M MO U A A A Creator, HBO’s L O Joe Manganiello the apex of a new O O N C H MAD ME H bored to death (REM technology. And Just W W Hot Werewolf, N True Blood. I like all the OF Kids by Patti Smith— LA true blood Y L characters that turn S Mad Men. If you don’t poetically written and into dogs. Because I’d like TE R have a guttural, visceral vividly remembered. Y Jesse Tyler MCMU to turn into a dog. OU She reminded me of the ON C response when you S Ferguson / idealism of art. N watch it, then you don’t OL Laura Benanti OF Actor, modern family I O TRICK VE Marcus Mumford T A R Y Actress, women on the R have a pulse. P P S The Kids Are All Right. L Musician, A O T ); verge of a nervous BR TE A A AM T M IN OV R I loved the natural humor E R R MA IC Mumford & Sons, Julianne Moore and breakdown N Oliver Platt OU O “sigh no more” C Modern Family. An B MAHE Annette Bening brought ( T S Winter’s Bone. Debra KI/ Actor, please give ERRICK H absolutely phenomenal ’ S O R M to their roles. B G Granik directed it so I E S Suan Stevens’s All ) H ); R show—particularly Jesse N T E D L beautifully. Everything V Delighted People. He L N EDLIN Tyler Ferguson, I E OF A T R E S about it was compelling Y N makes achingly beautiful FOR R who manages to be both W AINING JA S A F M U TR S S M D and uncompromising. It music. The songs I really TE O I hilarious and heartfelt. I R K MU P ( E (RE was a film that knew respond to are simple, like H ; T ) OU N S exactly what it wanted to “The Owl and the C GES T/ K Sufjan Stevens A OR do and did it. The acting Tanager,” which is O ULLA M W L I T M Musician, E was amazing, and John haunting. Suy is very O N T STEVEN Annette Bening Y T L H ( A E all delighted people MC I Hawkes, in particular, was S R private, and I like that. Actress, O C A ETT T Marina Abramovic: N SO L R Aaron Sorkin spellbinding. I’m really happy G LY / E the kids are all right E H T B The Artist Is TRICK T Screenwriter, O to find out about him L ON Please Give. I’ve been A A STEVE R S P Present at MoMA. the social network E through his music. S following the work of ); CK T S UKI A Jon Stewart’s closing O J director Nicole Z R ONE); S E B speech at the Rally to AR Holofcener—her S HOUR S M ’ A HRI Restore Sanity. A beautiful ; R 7 N ) characters are so well C 2 I ; Davis Guggenheim (1 piece of writing and T R ) EN drawn. And E Oliver Platt Y U S A M John Hawkes L Director, waiting for V oratory that served as a WINTE T was really sexy! S ( I R AD M “superman” S desperately needed Actor, E M E N T ( W The Fighter. That reminder that conflict, winter’s bone H PICTURE I T G MC when used as a device, Real Time With Bill ORDER: Batman guy [Christian CTIO I H A F A B & makes for good television Maher. It’s the only TV E Bale] is unbelievable. IGHT Trey Songz I L L IN OF H W SI TTR show I make an eort to L And oh my God, Melissa D Y and bad journalism. A T A M E Singer-Songwriter, CH JO S E (L B R A Leo is amazing! watch. He welcomes TE D “can’t be friends” C H R SI B SEA smart people with E D Gary Shteyngart N The Social Network. It’s R OU X A C opposing views, and that O O Author, super sad true a perfect representation of F OF R ); makes for a really rich D love story Charles Ferguson Y my generation and a OF S OF back and forth. It’s the Y OO Y reminder that anything Inside Job. The real Director, inside job TE S L S R B lamp in the cave for me. Melissa Leo criminals aren’t on TE that ever became great 127 Hours is, on the one TE R OU R Actress, the fighter Facebook or the Intertube. hand, a great depiction of C began in one mind. It OU TRUE OU ( I don’t have any favorite C C made me feel like I need They’re the cast of this ingenuity and courage O OOD/ KI/ cultural moments because documentary, one of B to—and can—be doing under extreme pressure, S W H I live very much in a R even more. “CA the best I’ve seen. I think and at the same time GIVE); N S ’T OF R HE B E F S RIENDS” bubble of my work or my I have a man-crush on U YNAR Y incredibly cool L O S own creation. I don’t read H M Eliot Spitzer. 7 filmmaking and acting 2 TE PLEASE 1 R Mary J. Blige ( AN books or newspapers or GINIA from James Franco. I R S OU Singer, “music saved my watch TV. I don’t like C VI I The first fifteen minutes C AST S what’s going on in the real B life” tour of the film is the E HS: HS: S LAS P world, so I don’t P The ballad “Can’t Be C most beautiful rock video ); K RA RA S Friends,” by Trey Songz. pay attention to it. R G ever made. G O O O The lyrics are so true. T T W O O ICTURE P PH NET PH 56 n e w y o r k | d e c e m b e r 1 3 , 2 0 1 0 d e c e m b e r 1 3 , 2 0 1 0 | n e w y o r k 57 Jesse Eisenberg N Actor, the social OW ON D S & K network D AC N J Bloody Bloody Andrew U W O E B R Jackson. T ON S NN D A A N The humor is fresh and SH BLOODY E EL BLO A A OD Y cutting, and about CH Y D I AN M D O halfway through, it Archie Punjabi RE O W L becomes startling as the B Actress, the good wife Michael Shannon J A Y reality of its subversive C Eastbound & Down. It’s Actor, mistakes were K D S history lesson sets in. WN Christina Hendricks O DO O ND & ridiculously funny, and made and N O OU Adam Langer Actress, mad men L STB it’s not something I would boardwalk empire B A Author, the thieves of Bloody Bloody Andrew E expect to find funny. One of my favorite bands, manhattan Jackson. Pavement, had their It was just sort of … an THE WOR T Craig Wright’s Mistakes VS. LD Edgar Wright HE reunion tour this year. Alex Timbers RIM THIE TAN Were Made at the Barrow orgy of sensory overload. LG Director, scott pilgrim VES OF MANHAT They performed PI Street Theatre—but from It was so unexpected—I’m Co-Creator, bloody TT vs. the world Danny McBride in Williamsburg, on O Chicago, where so still reeling from it. bloody andrew jackson SC Eastbound & Down, Actor, the waterfront. A much great New York Scott Pilgrim vs. the which elicits explosive eastbound & down beautiful night: They theater starts—and World. Smart, funny, laughter from me in every The Thieves of played all my favorites. featuring another more kinetic than a movie episode. I feel like Manhattan, by Adam incendiary performance has a right to be.

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