THAT'S RHETT BUTLER. HE'S FROM CHARLESTON. HE HAS THE MOST TERRIBLE REPUTATION: Gone with the Wind with Vampires. [HT: Popwatch.]

UP, UP IN THE AIR! The AMC movie chain will be spreading out its traditional "Best Picture Showcase Saturday" over two weekends to accommodate the supersized set of nominees, and is soliciting viewer voting as to which four films should accompany Avatar on Saturday, February 27.

I wonder if it makes sense to schedule the violent films together -- Avatar, The Hurt Locker, District 9 and Inglorious Basterds -- with perhaps A Serious Man thrown in the middle as a palate cleanser just because I think that's what Hashem would want.

WHAT IS THE JIM ROOKER-FELDMAN DOCTRINE? An interesting question for this community:

Let's say you're on 'Jeopardy!' and you're absolutely routing your two opponents. You have $40,000 going into the final round, while one of your opponents has, let's say, $15,000. You're guaranteed to move onto the next day, but the final category comes up and it has something to do with baseball, which is your favorite sport. How much — if anything — do you risk?

It's at this point where most people usually tell me that they'd risk just enough to ensure that they would win even if they got the question wrong.

And it's at this point that my response to those people is always the same: "You'd be crazy to leave free money on the table. I'd bet the whole thing."

The person then responds by calling me an idiot while I try to back up my reasoning.

To help you out, the link includes the last ten baseball-specific Final Jeopardy! questions, which just served to convince me that I should play this one conservatively -- because if you can't go 10/10 on them it's not worth the risk.

SNOWPOCALYPSE NOW: Oddly, even though NYC is north of Philly and DC, it's apparently going to miss the brunt of the major storm that's hitting those two cities shortly. Given that a substantial portion of our readership is in that mid-Atlantic area, it's time for an open thread for how you're dealing with the forthcoming storm, the status of supermarket and Wawa shelves, and how this yet against proves the infallibility of Punxsutawney Phil.

BRING BACK HIDY AND HOWDY! Meet your 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascots: Quatchi, "a young sasquatch from the mysterious forests of Canada;" Miga, a "sea bear" who likes salmon jerky and BC rolls; and Sumi, a hot cocoa drinking "animal spirit [who] wears the hat of the orca whale, flies with the wings of the mighty thunderbird and runs on the strong furry legs of the black bear."

HECK, HE'S TWO YEARS TOO YOUNG TO BE RECEIVING ADVICE FROM TAYLOR SWIFT: I'm just going to say this whole college football recruiting thing has gotten out of hand:

David Sills, a highly-touted youth quarterback, made a verbal commitment tonight to accept a college football scholarship from USC.

Sills is not even in high school yet. He is a seventh-grader at Red Lion Christian Academy in Bear.

Red Lion high school varsity coach Eric Day confirmed the decision by Sills tonight, also confirming that USC coach Lane Kiffin made the scholarship tonight to the 13-year-old Sills.

...Sills will be able to sign a letter of intent in February 2015, unless of course NCAA regulations have changed by then.

Sills was already being profiled by SI when he was 11.

RAZZMATAZZ: The Office and 30 Rock were depressing for different reasons tonight -- the former for that poignant David Wallace sequence, the latter because I wish Jan Hooks never had to age (though she's only 11 years older than Jane Krakowski) and because the show's simply seen better days. So I'm looking forward to what comes next with the Dunder-Mifflin/Sabre merger, but it's been a long time since Tina Fey's show has tasted a rainbow.

N.B. The referenced Diff'rent Strokes episode "Where There's Smoke" is online in its entirety.