Short article on the making of the statuettes handed out at the Academy Awards.
Where Oscar Best Picture Nominees Are Liked Most
Interesting look at which area of the US each oscar nominee was most popular. Since studios don’t release that kind of information, Facebook “likes” were used to generate the maps.
We wanted to find out for a few reasons. There has been an increasing disconnect between films that are hits and films that Hollywood honors. The last three best picture winners (“Spotlight,” “Birdman,” “12 Years a Slave”) went unseen by most Americans, at least during their theatrical runs.
With the country so politically divided, we also wanted to know whether audience support for nominees fell along similar urban-rural or coastal-heartland fissures.
Y-O-D-A, Yoda
Weird Al had Lin-Manuel Miranda join him on stage to sing “Yoda.”
Castle Rock
Teaser for Castle Rock, a new Hulu series from Stephen King and J.J. Abrams. Castle Rock is the fictional Maine town where King set The Dead Zone, Cujo, and “The Body,” among others.
The Case for Sugar
Many books and studies are asserting that sugar causes or contributes to multiple fatal illnesses, costing billions of dollars in health care each year. I dispute none of this. But I would like to add that sugar tastes really, really good.