Steve Wiebe plays Donkey Kong He's game: Seen here playing in 2007, documentary star Steve Wiebe is about to try to get back his Donkey Kong title. Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images
 

by Linda Holmes

We have less of a roundup than usual today, because -- and this is not a joke -- so much oxygen was consumed by mostly-bad April Fool's nonsense at many of our favorite sites that we have spent half the day with a pillow over our ears. Nevertheless!

Read:

• You can find war remnants in the unlikeliest places -- like MTV's The Real World, which told a relatively straightforward story about a kid who'd been to Iraq -- not realizing he'd be called back, and would get the news while they were filming.

Note:

• Fox has a new plan to deny special features to DVD renters, and it bit them immediately when they apparently jumbled beyond hope who was supposed to get the real DVD and who was supposed to get the disappointing one without any of the special features that everyone who gets a DVD believes they're going to see.

• In what's actually big news for fans of the fantastic 2007 documentary The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters, Steve Wiebe is set for a televised attempt to get back his Donkey Kong record from Billy Mitchell. You only think this isn't important if you haven't seen the movie.

Ignore:

• Every time you think you've found the thing in the world about which you care the least, someone comes along and says something about The Real Housewives Of New York City.

categories: Read/Note/Ignore

6:48 - April 1, 2009

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