• The Hurt Locker may have won Best Picture, but it's already available on home video, and that means theaters are reluctant to make it more widely available on the big screen.
• Sticking with the Oscars for a moment, the explanation being offered for Farrah Fawcett's exclusion from the "In Memoriam" segment on Sunday night is that she was better known for television. This would be a better argument if the inclusions in past years of folks like John Ritter and Phil Hartman (according to Wikipedia, which has a tendency to get this kind of non-axe-grinding indexing of past segments correct) didn't set a precedent that major TV stars are generally included if they have any noteworthy film background at all. Fawcett, who was an Independent Spirit Award nominee for The Apostle and a Golden Globe nominee for Extremities, would seem to have just as valid an argument regarding the Oscars as Phil Hartman, who did just about all of his significant (and great) work in television. It's true that you can't cover everybody, but given Fawcett's long, and ultimately successful, struggle to be taken seriously, it seems like a regrettable final snub.
• A commentator in The New York Times argues that perhaps the end of the idea of "free" television would be a good thing.
Jesse Ventura, good credits wonderfully ruined forever, and Krasinski's next move, after the jump.
• The words "Jesse Ventura" and "secret futuristic war movie" go together in some kind of natural and yet terrifying way I can't entirely explain.
• John Krasinski has had a very uneven movie career, for a guy who launched so successfully on TV. Frankly, though there's been a lot of chatter about him and the role of Captain America lately, I'd go the romantic leading man route myself. Those Emily Giffin books are perfectly nice; I approve.
• If you're a Parks And Recreation fan, I'm going to warn you that if you watch this video that reinvents the title sequence, you will never, ever not hear the music this way. On the other hand, it's so funny that it was tweeted by Mike Schur, one of the showrunners, who said last night that they've "watched this 1000 times in the writers' room." But seriously, don't say I didn't warn you.
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