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by Linda Holmes

• Danny Boyle, most recently the director of Slumdog Millionaire, will next take on the story of a trapped hiker who amputated his own arm to escape from the rock that had pinned him. So: just another cheerful, upbeat tale from that guy.

• There's a battle going on, and the prize is the ability to show you movies as soon as possible. The Motion Picture Association Of America would like to be able to strengthen what it characterizes as anti-copying technology so it can provide new movies in your home much closer to their theatrical releases than is possible right now. Theater owners are not as enthused, and are putting up a fight -- as are many who aren't enthusiastic about further limitations on their use of home entertainment.

• Sheldon Dorf, the founder of the San Diego Comic-Con International, died on Tuesday, and there's already a tribute site where you can read what some folks have to say about him. I feel like it's completely in the spirit of the event to speculate that many owners of their own Starfleet uniform shirts are very sad today. Hear Ina Jaffe's report on his death below.

A list of books that's causing a stir, Glenn Beck's innards, and a classical music event at the White House, after the jump.

• Publishers Weekly is taking some sustained heat over its Best Books Of 2009 list, on which none of the ten entries were written by women.

• It happened on the radio and not on television, but Fox News host Glenn Beck had an appendicitis attack on the air, it seems.

• There are major cuts to come -- some of which started yesterday -- at Time, Inc., publisher of magazines including Entertainment Weekly.

• It's not often that I read a piece and think, "That person is seethingly angry about something relating to classical music, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is." But that was my reaction to this account in The Washington Post of an event yesterday at the White House.

categories: Roundups

8:56 - November 5, 2009

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