• Roger Ebert has gone in a new direction for his 2009 Top Ten. Specifically: there are 20 of them.
• Avatar had a very big weekend at the box office, but The Giant Snow Dump Of 2009 put a little damper on it.
• There is a flat-out brilliant quote in this piece about 94-year-old painter Carmen Herrera, which was pointed out to me by a friend. Find the part where she's talking about whether her late husband orchestrated her success from above. Hilarious.
After the jump: The post-Super-Bowl slot on CBS, the three Christmas stories, and stealing books.
• Recent years have brought post-Super-Bowl showcases for already-successful shows like House and The Office. This year, CBS will be showing a new reality show called Undercover Boss.
• Slate looks at the three plots of Christmas.
• This piece about stealing books contains a rather shocking reveal about what's the most stolen book of all, according to at least one seller.
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