• More news for awards-watchers: Jason Reitman's Up In The Air won the big prize from the National Board Of Review. As always, expect wild speculation about the relationship between this award and winning the Oscar.
• An intriguing story about attracting boys to ballet shows off stereotypes in both directions, including silliness over men wearing tights as well as dismissals of women dancers as hopelessly less exciting than good male dancers. The beat goes on.
• Reports are that George Stephanopolous may become the new Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America after Diane Sawyer becomes the next Charlie Gibson on the evening news.
• Two interesting media tidbits: a laid-off USA Today travel editor embraces her frustrations, telling her former employer "Good luck steering the Titanic," while The Dallas Morning News kind of freaks people out by deciding that editors should report to sales managers.
An Entourage movie, more on Comcast-NBCU, and Microsoft backs away from one reported anti-Google tactic, after the jump.
• For all of you anxiously awaiting an Entourage movie, your prayers just may be answered.
• Variety asks some of the questions that the Comcast-NBCU deal raises, particularly of the nuts-and-bolts kind. There's also this sad look at the fact that Comcast apparently agrees with practically everyone else about the status of NBC's prime-time offerings.
• Microsoft seems to be distancing itself from the idea of paying content providers (like Google frustration leader Rupert Murdoch) to remove their content from Google and work with Microsoft's Bing instead.
• Those interested in next year's movies rather than the awards-season scuffles among this year's movies may want to check out the Sundance non-competition lineup (yesterday's list covered the films in competition).
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