• Good news? Bad news? Who knows? Aaron Sorkin is returning to the world of television set behind the scenes of television. Could be another Sports Night. (Yaaaay!) Could be another Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. (Boooo.)
• A set of guidelines for theater critics has set off a debate about just what a critic is obligated to do — it's summed up nicely, with lots of links, here.
• From The Department Of Gross Generalizations Debunking Other Gross Generalizations, it turns out that sex doesn't sell after all. So that's it for sex, then.
Even more spoiler discussion, a surging comedy, and Oscar documentary news, after the jump.
• Two more writers mix it up over the spoiler controversy, and surprisingly enough, even though one is spoiler-averse and the other isn't, they come to the same conclusion, and it might sound familiar to those who read this piece here last week.
• The Los Angeles Times has a well-done piece about the surging Parks And Recreation, which is still finding its feet ratings-wise, but which has blossomed into a massively better show than it was in the spring, and critics across the board have noticed.
• Forbes declares Will Ferrell to be Hollywood's most overpaid actor, as part of its list of the top ten. Land Of The Lost will really throw off a guy's numbers, though.
• The short list of documentaries that may become Oscar nominees is out, and — as always seems to be the case in this genre — some of the most popular and most discussed documentaries of the year were left out.
• And just to freak you out a little: Twilight tattoos.
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