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Week In Review: Sayonara, Summer

  • 9/4/09 at 1:45 PM
Week In Review: Sayonara, Summer

Boy, that sure went fast, didn't it? One moment we're counting down the Song of the Summer — which, btw, went to Drake's "Best I Ever Had" — and the next we're starting to preview the 2010 Oscars. It's enough to make you dizzy, isn't it? Good thing we have a long weekend to get prepped for the onset of fall! Speaking of which, we're taking off for the rest of the day and won't see your pretty faces until Tuesday morning. In the meantime, though, let's review what we learned this week.

• With the hires of Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad, Lorne Michaels is making a concerted effort to balance out the male-female ratio on SNL.

• Don't ever call Russell Crowe fat.

• Jeremy Piven is lucky to be alive, people.

• We now know what the secret, final song in The Beatles: Rock Band is. (Spoiler Alert: It's "The End.")

• That Vincent Kartheiser screams out "Fuck life in the ass" before filming his scenes as Pete Campbell on Mad Men. Oh yeah, and Mad Men is coming back for a fourth season, despite the fact that Matthew Weiner knows next to nothing about cymbals.

• That The Final Destination ripped off a Chuck Palahniuk short story.

• Now you can take Hugh Jackman home with you (albeit, in sandwich form).

The Hangover guys are almost out of crappy, pre-Hangover movies.

The Blueprint 3 is much better than we thought it was going to be.

• Hipsters think that Brooklyn is the new Manhattan.

• Glenn Beck got on Jerry Saltz's last nerve.

• Thomas Haden Church won't be running for president of the Norm MacDonald fan club anytime soon.

Eric can fly!

The Cove worked! (Maybe!)

A.O. Scott and Michael Philips look like they'll do a competent job of getting At the Movies back on track, but they're no Beavis & Butthead.

• MTV Networks needs to take a serious look at their reality slate.

• Kurt Cobain was a closet Bon Jovi fan.

• The people who run Marvel have 4 billion reasons to be happy this weekend.

And with that, we're Audi 5000. Have a lovely Labor Day weekend!

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