· But you knew this already: Mariah Carey, Kanye West and John Legend lead Grammy nominees with 8 each. [Variety, THR]
· Usual awards seasons starter-pistol firer National Board of Review discovers that its ballots were FUBAR'd, forcing them to postpone their announcement a few days and risk being drowned out by the roughly ten thousand other organizations releasing their awards lists. [Variety]
· Seth MacFarlane teams up with Family Guy alum Ricky Blitt to resssurect his live-action comedy pilot Becoming Glen. Oh, how we love it when sitcom writers get quoted: "'Sadly,' the project has a substantial autobiographical component, Blitt said. 'Not only did I, too, live at home with my parents past the age of 30, like Glen, I have OCD, too. Though, not to toot my own horn, I personally had unpaid-for consensual intercourse at the ripe young age of 31.'" [THR]
· Dismayed by the death of the action hero, Stealth director Rob Cohen throws his hands in the air and seeks solace between the pendulous breasts of a biopic about sexploitation flick auteur Russ Meyer. [Variety]
· Sarah Michelle Gellar, now way too big a star for sequels of Japanese horror remakes, signs on for the minimum contractually allowable amount of screentime in The Grudge 2. [THR]

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