"Terminally Ill 'Simpsons' Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune." The Hollywood Reporter's Gary Baum talks with TV hitmaker and philanthropist Sam Simon.
"The collective reaction to the Zimmerman verdict is striking. These protests and demonstrations aren't directed solely at another race, at white people (black people know Zimmerman is also half-Peruvian and that the president is half-white). The outrage is directed at a system that's demonstrably harmful to non-white people. It's the institutions and all they've wrought that people are sick of. We don't yet live in the world the Supreme Court thought we did when it struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act and weakened the case for affirmative action. More than ever, we live in a time of racism without racists, just racist laws, racist policies, and racist ideas."
"Hasbro's new Monopoly Empire ($19.99), in which players compete to amass the most big-name brands, such as Coca-Cola, KO -0.29% Xbox and McDonald's, MCD +0.71% can be completed in as little as 30 minutes, compared with the hours that traditional Monopoly could take as players accumulated hotels, railroads and utilities while trying to bankrupt opponents. Also quickening the pace of play: There is no longer a "jail" for players to languish in while waiting for a lucky roll, says Hasbro spokeswoman Julie Duffy.
"Twenty-four years [after Tim Burton's 'Batman'], the movie surrounding that moment has become redundant. Last weekend, Warner Bros., who released Burton's Batman movie, whipped Comic-Con's fans into a frenzy with a carefully staged, content-free presentation revealing that Superman and Batman will appear in the same movie in 2015. There's no footage, not even a script, but the mere idea was enough to send Hall H into paroxysms of ecstasy."
"In truth…[White's] development over five seasons has been less a shocking transformation than a series of confirmations. Mr. Gilligan’s busy and inventive narrative machinery has provided plenty of cleverly executed surprises, but these have all served to reveal the Walter White who was there all along. The sides of his personality — sociopath and family man, scientist and killer, rational being and creature of impulse, entrepreneur and loser — are not necessarily as contradictory as we might have supposed"
From The Oatmeal, "Violence vs. Hair: an analysis of 'Breaking Bad.'"
In "The Call of the Wolverine," Vulture compiles a montage of Hugh Jackman's screams as Wolverine.