George Clooney, Unsexiest Dancer Alive [Shut Up,
Don't Dance]

That sand-diving, levitating make-out partner Sarah Larson has gone ahead and surprised us again. Ever since those racy photos from her pre-George days pleasantly shocked us a bit, we could always count on the Vegas hostess to say or do something not so intelligent and turn our frowns upside down. From showering Clooney?s home with scented candles to pouting over defamatory voice messages on George?s answering machine, Larson never failed to please. And the bobble-headed minx has done it again. When asked by Hello! what exactly she adored about George, she lists some yawn-worthy traits like humor(!), kindness(!), and famewhore enabling(!), but the one thing Sarah says she loved most about the guy who spent most of their relationship on crutches? His ?dance moves.? Of course. Because judging by these photos of Clooney busting a move, those ?interpretive? lessons he took a few years ago really paid off.

To be fair, George isn't exactly showing off those dance moves Sarah is so enamored with in these shots, but one would think you can judge a man's skills based on the way they jog (far left), stumble out of bars (second to left), waltz down a red carpet (center), "pretend dance" for magazine covers (top right), and point their pinkies out for the cameras. Despite Gayle King assuring us that he's "very good" after her impromptu boogie with Clooney a few months ago, it sounds like George has the most fun showing off his moves in the company of men. Which isn't surprising, considering his devastating free-for-all country bumpkin dance-a-thon in O Brother Where Art Thou, a dance sequence so painful to watch, we nearly lost our lust for both George and the Brothers Coen.

• SARAH LARSON ON GEORGE CLOONEY SPLIT: 'I WILL MISS HIS DANCE MOVES' [Us]

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A Bike-By Clowning [To Do]

Well, she's not in a bikini (awwww), but it is Molly McAleer (yayyyyy!), Defamer's resident videographer and ToDoLogist, back with another fascinating chapter from her ongoing, serialized memoir, Musings of an Asian Sex Worker. In today's gripping installment, our heroine battles her greatest foe yet—Clown on a Bike Guy—with the help of her crime- and hangover-fighting companion, Alexis Hyde. Click or die.

Oh, and here's some stuff you can do tonight:
· Mods and Rockers Festival at the Egyptian Theater.
· Bimbos Live! Girls Gone Funny at the Knitting Factory.
· That's What She Said Show at Eagle LA.

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The color of blood: A study in scarlet

The color of blood: a study in scarlet

View image Bright, thick, almost waxy blood: Brian DePalma's "Sisters" (1973).

View image Thinner, but still alarmingly bright: Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" (1994).

"Yellow... is the color of caution."
-- Opal from the BBC (Geraldine Chaplin) in Robert Altman's "Nashville"

Red is the color of alarm. Perhaps because it is the color of blood. Over the years, that color has changed, along with our taste in blood. In movies, I mean. What was once alarmingly "realistic" now looks either stylized (if it's a good movie) or fakey (if it's not so good). When Neil Sedaka and Elton John sang about "Bad Blood" in 1975, maybe that's what they really had in mind (because, after all, who knows what "Doo-ron, doo-ron, dit-dit-dit-di ron-ron" was supposed to mean? Apart from the reference to the Crystals).

View image Near-black: The Coens' "No Country For Old Men" (2007).

Before the late '70s, blood was generally (and, remember, these are generalizations -- there are certainly exceptions) bright red and opaque, like nail polish or latex paint. It was often compared to ketchup, which in many cases it was. Since then, our taste for blood runs darker, anywhere from ruby red to almost black. It's a bit more transparent than it used to be, and appears somewhat shinier and stickier -- perhaps because, as we now know, the effects folks have supposedly hit upon the magic formula for photogenic blood made from Karo corn syrup (in some cases the high fructose variety, the same ingredient used in... almost everything that doesn't use a low-cal sweetener). The shade changes with the lighting, the thickness (a smear or a puddle?), and the surface on which it is splashed. The blood splashed on Samuel L. Jackson's Jheri Curled hair naturally appears darker than the blood all over the upholstery of the back seat, or the blood splooshed on the back window as daylight streams through it.

(Red Alert: Possible bloody spoiler text and images ahead for "Heroes" [Season One], "There Will Be Blood," "Deep Red," "The Conversation"...)

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WITTGENSTEIN TRAILER

Title: WITTGENSTEIN
Category: Drama
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WHAT REMAINS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF SALLY MANN
TRAILER

Title: WHAT REMAINS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF SALLY MANN
Category: Documentary
Credit: Zeitgeist Films
Rating: nonadult
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TOWARDS DARKNESS TRAILER

Title: TOWARDS DARKNESS
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TOWARDS DARKENSS TRAILER

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THE WITMAN BOYS TRAILER

Title: THE WITMAN BOYS
Category: Drama
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THE REAL TOMB HUNTERS TRAILER

Title: THE REAL TOMB HUNTERS
Category: Non-Fiction
Credit: A & E
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THE AAI 2007 CONVENTION: DISC 2 TRAILER

Title: THE AAI 2007 CONVENTION: DISC 2
Category: Non-Fiction
Credit: Richard Dawkins Foundation
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