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Links for the Day: SAG Winners, DGA Winners, Sundance Winners, Romney Widens Lead Over Gingrich, Madonna's New Single, & More

Easy, Betty White

The Help cleaned up and Jean Dujardin pulled an upset at last night's Screen Actors Guild awards.

In other news of The Artist's march toward Oscar, Michel Hazanavicius beat out Fincher, Allen, Scorsese, and Payne at Saturday's DGA awards.

This year's Sundance Film Festival winners have also been announced.

A look back at the film and art career of the Eiffel Tower, a 122-year-old movie star prepping for her facelift.

Matt Zoller Seitz recaps the latest episode of HBO's Luck.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney widened his lead over Newt Gingrich.

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Links for the Day: Directors Guild of America Nominations, Coachella Lineup, Kim Novak Raped by The Artist, War Horse Illustrated Review, & More

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The Directors Guild of America has announced its 2012 nominees.

Pope Benedict says gay marriage is a threat to humanity's future.

Speaking of real threats to our future, Pat Buchanan might not be coming back to MSNBC.

Coachella's 2012 lineup has been announced.

Jay-Z has a new song, which Today's Kathie Lee Gifford wishes it had a melody.

While Kim Novak protests about the use of Vertigo's music, a bigger backlash is gathering pace as Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist charms its way to the Oscars.

Related: Sean O'Neal, for The A.V. Club, elaborates on Novak crying rape.

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Links for the Day: Sundance/SAG/DGA Winners, Eisenberg Meets Zuckerberg, Tony Geiss and John Barry RIP, Greatest Oscar Heists, & More

Like Crazy

Like Crazy and How to Die in Oregon took the top prizes at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

And The King's Speech and Boardwalk Empire were the big winners at last night's Screen Actors Guild Awards.

The highlight of this weekend's predictably shitty SNL was a meet-uncute between Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Zuckerberg.

Related: David Bordwell on the faces of Facebook.

The Emmy-winning Tony Geiss, a Sesame Street writer for decades and creator of the Honkers, passed away last week at the age of 86.

Oscar-winning John Barry, the composer of 11 James Bond scores, has died at age 77.

Tom Hooper is the winner of the DGA Feature Film Award for The King's Speech.

On the occasion of at least one about to happen this year, Matt Zoller Seitz reveals the all-time "greatest" Oscar heists.

The Self-Styled Siren whips something up on The Village of the Damned.

Funny how quickly the world changes. This clip made me think of the first time I logged onto the Internet, around 1994, to look up information about The Simpsons for a TV class.

From the kids at Lawrence High School comes a new video—a punk update of Mack David's "Sunflower"—that is a celebration of Kansas (now 150 years young), the arts (a cut in funding has recently been proposed in the state), and the diversity of the state's youth:

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Links for the Day: Slant Picks Best Singles of the '90s, DGA and ASC Nominations, Reverse Shot's Two Cents, Once Coming to Broadway, & More

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Is it fair to say that many of us attach no actual "nostalgia," in the strictest sense of the word, to the singles of the 1990s?

The Directors Guild of America has announced their nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2010, opting for David O. Russell over the Coens, and the American Society of Cinematographers has an inexplicable thing for Danny Cohen.

The Reverse Shot gang gives us its two cents. Mad props to their giving mad props to underdogs Let Me In, Frozen, and The Anchorage, as well as to True Grit's fantastic, moving ending.

IONCINEMA.com's 100 most anticipated movies of 2011.

Kanye West wanted the cover of his album to be banned.

Once is coming to Broadway this fall.

In the wake of Saturday's tragic shooting in Arizona, Chicago newsman Bill Kurtis speaks from the heart about his late son's mental illness.

And will the tragedy be a defining moment for Sarah Palin? Not if FOX News has anything to say about it:

Links for the Day: A collection of links to items that we hope will spark discussion. We encourage our readers to submit candidates for consideration to ed@slantmagazine.com and to converse in the comments section.




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