Early Buzz: Blaze of Glory

It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday! Everybody's looking forward to the weekend!

…sorry.

Man, it bums me out that today is our last day together! I've had the time of my life doing these posts. I had to burn some midnight oil to get these last pieces together for y'all, but it will be worth it to go out in a BLAZE OF GLORY.

Let's light this candle!

Songwriter Bill Dees, who co-wrote Oh, Pretty Woman, has died.

Surprising absolutely no one, Ghostbusters 3 has been delayed again.

Mr. Burns from The Simpsonshas endorsed Mitt Romney.

The rescheduled G.I. Joe: Retaliation, with Bruce Willis, Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum and a motorcycle made of bombs, has a new trailer.

Lily Tomlin discusses her career.

BBC One has announced a third season of Luther with Idris Elba.

Joe Hill's IDW comic Locke & Key might become a movie. I saw the not-picked-up TV pilot last year at NYCC, and it was great! I hope they put it on iTunes, I'd buy it.

Here's a look at the reviews for This Must be the Place, starring Sean Penn as a Nazi-hunting Goth-rocker named Cheyenne. You read that correctly.

George Saunders talks about having an affair with Ayn Rand when he was 17.

Science has finally given us a painless Band-Aid.

Katy Perry and Shannon Woodward went as Daria and Jane for Halloween. My respect for them has increased exponentially.

Here's the Necronomicon from the remake of Evil Dead, which I'm still not planning on seeing despite the presence of Suburgatory's Jane Levy.

UPDATE: Cat Power will tour after all, though she's cut her light show.

My complete lack of interest in Gangam Style and its parodies is tested by this Big Trouble in Little China homage: "Lo Pan Style."

Mark Hamill reacts to Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm.

The new issue of Vanity Fair, out this week, contains an unpublished Truman Capote story.

A real, actual film made with money and actors and everything: "Sharknado: The Tornado Made Out of Sharks." Shame is for the weak!

Patton Oswalt wore an amazing Doctor Octopus costume for Halloween designed by Adam Savage of Mythbusters – here's a video showing how it was made.

Chris Brown went as a member of the Taliban for Halloween, because Lord knows people needed another reason to hate him.

Jamie Foxx might play Electro in the next Spider-Man film. I…did not see that coming.

Here's a crazy story – a novelist realized a Russian translator was working on a pirated e-book of one of his works, then wound up working with the translator to get the translation right!

Kate Beaton posted some cartoons about dealing with Hurricane Sandy.

Gossip Girl's finale will air Dec.17. Will it end with the characters realizing they're all horrible, horrible people? If they die in a fire I'll watch the rerun.

Here's some footage of Elfquest co-creator Wendy Pini's Red Sonja show from the 1978 Comic-Con.

According to Ancestry.com, George Clooney is a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, well, my grandma says I'm a distant relation of the inspiration for Roxy Hart in Chicago! …um, that means I have within me the blood of killers. Or musical theater.

Check out this zombie makeup tutorial for the upcoming film Warm Bodies with Nicholas Hoult from Skins.

Roger Ebert gives three and a half stars to the 1971 Australian thriller Wake in Fright, which returns in limited release today.

This is one of the craziest Transformers toys I've ever seen.

My favorite regular comics feature: "This Month's Most Depressing Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft Strips"

Images from the American Film Market include a preview poster for a film of William Gibson's Neuromancer.

Here's a charity drive to help the wife of children's book creator Aaron Zenz – she had recent surgery for her spine and brain, and the family of eight needs some help during her recovery.

Another creative person you can help – was told comic artist J.K. Woodward (Fallen Angel, Star Trek) lost almost everything from Hurricane Sandy flooding. Here's where you can buy his original art (and here's a sweet piece of Prisoner Zero from Doctor Who he did for me at a con a few years back).

Another great comic artist, BPRD's Guy Davis, has just put up some pieces for sale – they're gorgeous, but some will set you back as much as $2,000!

A "nymphographic" of all the women James Bond has been with in the films – and where he's been with them (eight boats!).

Here's a video of the Avett Brothers covering Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea .

The horror anthology V/H/S will get a sequel including segments from the people behind The Raid: Redemption and Hobo with a Shotgun.

RZA talks The Man with the Iron Fists and the 20th anniversary of Enter the Wu-Tang (The 36 Chambers). Have you ever used this Wu Name Generator? My Wu Name is "Homicidal Terrahawk." I like that.

Fantagraphics Books is doing an exhibit in San Francisco to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the legendary indie comic Love & Rockets.

Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Seyfried will star in Wonderful Tonight, a pretty decent romantic comedy script I read from a screenwriter friend a few years back.

For hard-core old-school video game fans: The Legacy Music Hour Video Game Podcast talks the music of the NES Castlevania games.

Also, a podcast I missed a few weeks back: Jim Rugg talks to Matt Furie, who did the extraordinary children's book The Night Riders through McSweeney's (here's Whitney's thoughts on it!)

A Tor.com writer attempts to parse the plot of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

And finally: Here's a rare 1962 PSA of President Kennedy reminding everyone to vote!

I'm going to miss getting to do this!

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