Maybe it's micromanaging, but I've been to weddings where the hired videographers and photographers were getting increasingly pissed off because everyone and their uncle decided to camp in front of them with their phones and tablets out. It's all well and good to want your own pics, but preventing hired pros from…

what.

Has '____-shaming' become the 'Un-Australian' of 2013?

I remembered that incorrectly, my bad. Thanks for the heads up.

I knoooooow. Did they just lose Bernadette Peters' number?

A lot of detail was packed into (what we now consider in lieu of YA series like Twilight, Harry Potter and The Inheritance Cycle) fairly short novels. Given my usual reading strategy is 'skim, then read properly' I often surprise myself with the things I missed while skimming.

Casting non singers in the sing-iest of musicals (Believe me: my school did this musical and the choir director made sure that every female lead was a current or former member of the choir i.e. people that she knew could sing), Casting children in stories about sexual discovery, and JOHNNY DEPP. ALSO ANNA KENDRICK. OF…

About six months ago...I have a ridiculous memory though.

The word on the street is that the English release will be minus 20 minutes (approx 1/6 of the movie), because Harvey Weinstein thinks the footage, described as 'character developing' and 'more cerebral' scenes, wont be understood by 'Midwestern audiences'. From Inside Film (via The Mary Sue):

*more capable, not 'moral capable' (whatever that means)

I don't understand what they're trying to do with Peeta. They cast a tiny guy, presumably because "hurr, durr our audience is so stupid no one will understand how a girl can be moral capable than a guy who is larger than her". They then removed his deliberate kill, making him pure as the mountain snow. And now, NOW…

Ahh, nothing says relationship death knell quite like a song that commemorates your love

Holy shit, it's a blonde Rachel Berry.

I read the comments and I regret it.

Yup, that was the matinee our high school did for the primary schools.

Is the director on twitter? Someone needs to enlighten him.

Lee Daniels is good at pulling great performances from amateurs, so maybe he'll be able to make it look like he can act?

Maybe I'm mistaken, but when the video first came to people's attention there didn't appear to be any reason to think it was satire.

Useless anecdotal contribution: All Indigenous Australians who I've met self identify as black, and the work of Aboriginal academics I've read does the same.

Um, all Indigenous Australians who I've met self identify as black, and the work of Aboriginal academics I've read does the same.