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Daniel Craig seems to have been officially cast in the remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. They really decided to go with an unconventional Lisbeth Salander, there.

In other L. Salander news, there's a particularly juicy case of art fraud currently underway.

The Cars may or may not be reuniting. Woo! And Nigel Lythgoe may or may not be returning to American Idol. Less "Woo!" and more "Hmm."

AdWeek presents an interview with Pete Hottelet, possibly the only man who has genuinely attempted to make Duff Beer a reality. Sure, a lot of people talk about how consumer choices always seem a little greener on the other side of the television or movie screen, but here's someone actually doing something about it.

Pope Benedict XVI is writing a children's book, which in itself isn't especially big news, but the first sentence of this report in the Guardian makes me suspect that the reporter isn't taking it especially seriously.

Over at Vulture, Emma Rosenblum reacts to a recent New York Times profile on Jersey Shore's Snooki that left a bad taste in her mouth.

Kristin Davis thinks that there will not be a third Sex And The City movie, which she seems to blame on the universally terrible reviews of the second one. I think she does not understand how Hollywood works.