George Clooney's Suicidal Side, and 5 Other Tales You Will Be Speaking About Today

Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition from the Broadsheet: The ripoff artistry from the L.A. Occasions… Vanity Fair includes a surprising new film critic… Atlas Shrugged includes a blurb problem… The “Chocolate Rain” guy describes the economy… and much more. · Within the same interview where he opened up up about his icky first orgasm, George Clooney apparently elaborated too concerning the suicidal ideas he experienced following a spine injuries he experienced around the set Syriana: “I was in a point where I figured, ‘I can’t exist such as this. I'm able to’t really live.’ […] You begin to consider when it comes to, you don’t wish to leave chaos, so use the garage, use the vehicle, start the engine. It appears such as the best method of doing it, however i i never thought I’d make it happen. See, I had been inside a place where I had been trying to puzzle out how you can survive.” Yikes. Regardless, I’d say everything exercised? [Moving Stone via EW] · It had been bad enough once the L.A. Occasions scammed Movieline’s interactive map of Drive locations. Description of how the’ve got something known as The Defacto Standard — essentially a replicated, copied and pasted, and slighty reconstituted version in our Oscar Index with no legitimate analysis or insight. Review and take a look, by leaving a comment letting them know what you want their features once they appear on this website days earlier. [LAT] · Hey, this really is fun: Author-director Paul Mazursky has become the film critic in residence at Vanity Fair. First of all: Melancholia. Seriously. [VF.com] · Much more fun: The bozos behind Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 have remembered the very first run of DVD’s due to a blurb alluding to “Ayn Rand’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice.” Bzzzzt. The brand new covers will say, “Ayn Rand’s timeless novel of rational self-interest.” The sexy silhouette will stay, obviously! [Badass Digest] · Considering moving to Tehran? Don’t take your pet. [Guernica via Andrew Sullivan] · Below you’ll find Zay Tonday — Also known as the “Chocolate Rain” guy — singing a brand new primer on our current financial crisis. It’s appealing! (And pretty damn inspired overall, honestly.) [via Gawker]