Quick clips: Movie news roundup
When Baltimore chef Timothy Dean landed a spot on Top Chef: D.C., he must have felt like everything was up, up, up. But ever since then it's been down, down, down. First, he was eliminated in week five; he never won a quickfire challenge, and the three times he appeared before the Supreme Culinary Court were not because it liked his food. Then he sued National Harbor for allegedly shortchanging him in a deal to open a restaurant and jazz lounge there. Now, it looks like his Fells Point restaurant, the unimaginatively named Prime Steakhouse, is headed for a bank foreclosure auction. Or maybe not? Either way, it's still open, so why don't you give the poor guy some business — while he still has one.
After the jump: what Kevin Costner and punk band X have in common.
The Post gives the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World soundtrack a spin (Beck and Broken Social Scene wrote songs for competing bands in the film). David Zurawik took a whole day to think about it, but still hated the last Mad Men episode; he also reports on an hour-long Investigation Discovery show about local spree killer and hostage-taker Joseph Palczynski. Jennifer Aniston, who had to take out a restraining order on a fan, is rumored to be involved in the Arrested Development movie, a project that itself is mostly rumor. Hurley from Lost gets Weezer'd. Exene Cervenka, of seminal L.A. punk band X, has a soft spot for Kevin Costner. Toy Story 3 joined the $400 million club. J.Lo's career may have plummeted, but her ass is still holding up. Stan Lee's being sued by a toymaker. Bruno continues to escape legal trouble. HBO has nabbed both Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese. And trailers are up for Gasper Noe's Enter the Void and yet another indie film on Katie Holmes-Cruise's comeback tour, The Romantics, a rare example of a director adapting her own novel. Will Ferrel digs literature, too, especially Raymond Carver.
I'm headed to Eat, Pray, Love tonight. I've got two of those imperatives covered. Would you perform the middle one for me?
To close, here's A.O. Scott's summation of my favorite Errol Morris doc, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, which profiles four obsessives: a lion trainer, robot scientist, topiary gardener, and of course an expert on the naked mole rat of Africa. All four characters share "an endless, absorbing fascination in what they do," says Scott, but "something larger emerges ... something having to do with human nature, the state of the world, animal behavior, complex systems — something unmistakable and impossible to describe."
WARNING: THIS CLIP IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR SEEING THE ACTUAL FILM.

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