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Marlon Brando in The Godfather

Marlon Brando in The Godfather: The greatest movie ever? A new list is here for all your fight-starting needs.

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by Linda Holmes

• Can't get enough lists? Can't get enough official reminders that you should see The Godfather? In what it's calling "the most ambitious movie poll ever conducted," Empire has a new list of the 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time, voted on by readers, critics, and "150 of Hollywood's finest." Start your quibbles! (I'll start by quibbling with the idea that On The Town (#277) is less great than A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (#265).)

• Does the embrace of video games mean the abandonment of reading? Some librarians and gamers say no. And when an official from the New York Public Library says that "reading is no longer just in the traditional sense of reading words in English or another language on a paper," well, we say the times, they are a-changing.

Seniors at the symphony and a stupendous video, after the jump ...

• The Los Angeles Times looks at the "graying" of the performing-arts audience in an attempt to determine whether we're just a wave of deaths away from the abolition of theater and the symphony. The slightly amusing conclusion: Yes, live highbrow events are for old people -- as they always have been. The current old people in the audience will die and be replaced by new old people. You, with the Wii! One day, you too will love Mahler! (Okay, maybe not Mahler.)

• There are a lot of things I will do for entertainment, but you couldn't get me into a performance by the Really Terrible Orchestra (profiled briefly by The Independent this weekend) with a stack of hundred-dollar bills as the carrot and a cattle prod as the stick.

• And now, your Monday morning unsourced Internet video of joy: Three kids, one guitar.

categories: Dogs In Wigs, Internet, Movies, Roundups

11:15 - October 6, 2008

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