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"Their estimate is utterly laughable," one executive (presumably from 20th Century Fox) told Nikki Finke yesterday. Even more laughable, though, is that Ashton Kutcher's What Happens in Vegas… made an undisputed $20 million, meaning that if Warner did lie about its numbers, it was only to claim hollow victory over the movie Manohla Dargis hails as "crudely manufactured, with its graceless setups, unstable lensing and ghastly lighting." Still, we can totally see where they're coming from. A disastrous $20 million opening for a $160 million, PG-rated movie with no apparent family-targeted competition is bad enough — but to lose to Kelso? God, that would be embarrassing.

WHAT A DISASTER! 'Speed Racer' $20M Weekend Half What Warner Bros Hoped; Rival Studios Accuse WB Of Inflating #s [Deadline Hollywood Daily]

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Last week's episode of Lost didn't add a lot of explicit craziness to the island's mythology, but there were plenty of quirks and oddities for the hive mind of the Internet to chew on. For instance, is Claire dead? And how come Jack's chest is so pretty in the future? Check out the clip from tonight's episode, above — in which it is revealed that (SPOILER!) Hurley loves ranch dressing — and spend your morning reading along with us as we take a tour through the Web's Lost rumormongering.

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• Whether you think the Oceanic Six are completely batshit can really affect whether you think Jin is dead. If you think Sun's calling for him during labor is a moment of insanity, you think he's dead; if you think it was a moment of truth in an otherwise dishonest living situation, then you think Jin's alive. Ditto with Jack's mentioning his father in "Through the Looking Glass." But don't forget that Jin has totally completed his character transformation from controlling alpha male to caring husband, so he could definitely be dead. [Long Live Locke]

• Captain Gault’s forthcoming nature with Desmond and Sayid seems very suspect, given that everything and everyone else on the freighter remains mysterious. Why would he so freely share his crew’s mission with these two? We do have to keep in mind that "DON’T TRUST THE CAPTAIN" note. Also, if Michael is unaffected by the strange case of cabin fever sweeping through the freighter crew, then maybe his acts of sabotage are just a stall tactic until every crew member goes nuts. [TV Squad]

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• Last week’s episode made it pretty damn clear that the island influences time perception, which suggests that the Oceanic 815 survivors have no clue of how long they’ve actually been there. In related news, in an interview with TV Guide, producer Carlton Cuse remarked, "There are some growth issues when you go on or off the island." Does this mean characters suddenly age when they leave? If so, it might explain why Walt looked older to Locke and why baby Aaron wasn’t exactly a baby anymore. [TV Squad]

Creed rocks out in Scranton.Photo: Brian Hineline / Retna

This past weekend brought not only about a million inches of rain but also the first-ever Office Convention to Scranton, Pennsylvania. If you want to know what it was like, just imagine what the first Star Trek convention was like, before twenty years of insanity sucked all the joy out of it for the actors. Then add Creed.

From all reports, actors from The Office — and pretty much everyone not named Jim, Pam, Dwight, or Michael showed up — were completely blown away by the reception they received. "We're like the Beatles," both Ed Helms and Angela Kinsey were overheard saying during the weekend, and the accounts of the many bloggers attending seem to back that up.

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To the record industry it was the scourge of the Internet, but to music fans the world around, OiNK was more beloved than ice cream and kittens combined. Now, hours after the BitTorrent site was shut down, the Internet responds:

The Official OiNK Memorial is giving round-the-clock news updates on all things OiNK. [Official OiNK Memorial]

"Where are people going now that OiNK is gone?" asks this thread on Metafilter. [Ask Metafilter]

Stereogum's commenters are commiserating. [Stereogum]

This guy has a plan to get back at the British recording industry, though, sadly, we don't understand a word of it. [For OiNK]

Rawkblog makes the correct case that OiNK was better designed, better stocked, and offered higher-quality MP3s than any of its legal, RIAA-sanctioned competition. [Rawkblog]

Idolator has video of the bust, along with a collection of some of the most ridiculous blog-comment reactions. (They're just bitter because they lost their own OiNK accounts in April.) [Idolator]

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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling shocked a Carnegie Hall audience on Friday night when she revealed that Albus Dumbledore, headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is gay. So clearly this is the most exciting news in basically ever, as evidenced by the 2,469 comments already posted to the news brief on The Leaky Cauldon, a Harry Potter fan site. We are kind of goofily proud of Rowling for springing this on an entire generation of kids and think this is the kind of out-of-left-field move that people might still be talking about 50 years from now. But what does the rest of the Internet think?

• "If I ever thought Jo could not impress me any further, I was SO wrong. To have one of the coolest, most respected wizards in history and mentor of Harry Potter as gay, is the bravest move JKR has EVER made. I salute her." [Leaky Cauldon commenter Shain]

•"WHAT? I could care less if someone is gay (as I, myself, am gay), but I do have a problem with Dumbledore being gay, because she didn’t write the relationship between Grindelwald and Dumbledore that way at all. Either she decided that after the fact or she can’t write romance worth a darn. Pathetic Rowling, just pathetic." [Leaky Cauldron commenter gaymanspeaks]

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We've gotten plenty of avid response to yesterday's list of the Ten Worst Movies Directed by Actors (Not Counting Kevin Costner). We've had e-mailers, bloggers, and message-board commenters chiding us for films left off the list, like Can’t Stop the Music, the Village People movie directed by Nancy Walker; Jack Nicholson's The Two Jakes; Anthony Hopkins's Slipstream; and Warren Beatty's Town & Country (which we would have put on the list had our brains not completely erased our memory of that movie, simply to help us make it through the day).

We've also heard from people defending movies we put on the list, from the guy who blogged that clearly Braveheart was awesome because it inspired Gladiator, to Grub Street's Josh Ozersky, whose passionate and angry defense of The Cable Guy is after the jump.