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Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie. If you haven't already read this run don't walk to the New York Times web site right now. The Times had an embedded journalist on set of Lindsay Lohan's latest film The Canyons. Lindsay's behavior is getting all the press, but parts of the story that interested me more were all the behind the scenes production stuff. It's a real interesting read.

The Man Who Killed Spider-Man. Short but good article by the Village Voice about Dan Slott (the writer for The Amazing Spider-Man) and the shitstorm surrounding the "death" of Peter Parker.

King of the Nerds Crew Member Responds to Backlash. A few years back there was a show on the CW called Beauty and the Geek, where they would team up a stereotypical nerdy guy with a stereotypical hot chick to compete against other teams of beauties and geeks to win fabulous prizes. It was totally exploitative and had a lot of "hey look at how stupid/nerdy this guy/girl is" moments but at the same time it went the extra mile to present the contestants as actual people with actual human feelings (who knew, right?). TBS's King of the Nerds looks like they will take that same format give it a wedgie and stuff it in a locker. F-U TBS.

Wrangler’s New Jeans Are a Skin-Softening Spa in Your Pants. Not wanting to be pigeonholed as the jeans that keep you from squishing your balls, Wrangler has invented jeans that will moisturize your skin as you wear them. I am not making this up.

Is Lindsay Lohan playing Supergirl?

Short answer, no. Long answer, no sir/ma'am.

So someone somewhere reported that Zack Snyder was looking at casting Lindsay Lohan for some undisclosed major role in the new Superman movie. Since they just cast Lois Lane this has everyone (ie. one blogger) wildly speculating that they're talking about Supergirl. Which is so stupid we're not even going to talk about it any further. What we will talk about is Power Girl.

I mean why not, right? From what I hear the villain in Zack Snyder's Superman is going to be Zod. So I guess after Bryan Singer remade Superman I, Snyder has logically chosen to remake Superman II. In 8 years I'm sure we'll be eagerly awaiting Darren Aronofsky's reboot staring Chris Tucker as Richard Pryor, but I digress.

Not that I think Supergirl is going to be in this new remake but if you are going to make a Superman movie, and you want to shoehorn in a Kryptonian lady, why not use Power Girl? Sure she's less well known as Supergirl, but she's also less iconic. Meaning you have a lot more leeway with the character than you would Supergirl. She could be a villain, a love interest, a pawn in some diabolical scheme by Brainiac, your options are endless. Plus she could be played by Diora Baird, amirite?