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Things didn't go precisely as the makers of Robin Hood hoped they would on the film's opening weekend, but the film had a respectable opening and was significantly boosted by a strong performance overseas.

A funny story (well, funny to me, probably not funny to the guy who was bugged about it to quite this degree) about bad communication, excerpts of excerpts, and well and truly cutting off your nose to spite your face. I have to say, publicists offer excerpts of things all the time, and when they say you're being offered the excerpt, that means ... you're being offered the excerpt, not the opportunity to pull a couple of quotes from the excerpt. If, in the future, you tell me I can run something and you mean part of it, make sure you tell me.

I enjoyed this piece by David Carr in The New York Times, in which he sheds light on why one of my friends and I used to try to come up with The Ultimate Headline, which was something like "Britney Spears MP3 Free Beer." (This was a while ago. I think now it would be "Demi Lovato MP3 Free Beer.")

Fishbowl LA (hat-tip to Cinematical) is reporting that Fox is working on an animated series based on the film Napoleon Dynamite, and that most of the original cast will be back. Seriously, is everybody just completely out of ideas at this point?

This is the jazz-positive view of Treme, from The Chicago Tribune. For a more in-depth view of the show and specifically its relationship with jazz — with coverage that has been saluted by series producer Eric Overmyer, I'm just saying — please catch up with NPR's jazz blog, A Blog Supreme.

From the Telegraph: Political memoirs are almost always excruciatingly boring. Why is that?

If you followed the story of Gizmodo and the prototype iPhone they obtained — only to find their reporter's home searched — you might enjoy the unsealed documents that detail the basis for the search. In particular, don't miss Gizmodo editor Brian Lam's two e-mails to Steve Jobs, including the clear implication that if Apple PR were more generous with authorized access, maybe Gizmodo wouldn't do this kind of "aggressive" thing.