THE KIND OF SMOLDERING LOOKS TO ENSURE YOU DO NOT, IN FACT, REMEMBER CEDRIC DIGGORY:  As a benefit to our female readers we've tried to pay attention to the maturation of Neville Longbottom as time goes by.  The Nerdy Bird goes further to trace the evolution of actor Matthew Lewis -- and  yet again, I don't know that they realized what talent were casting a decade ago when they located the alternate recipient of the prophecy.

[Also: how's the movie?  Spoil away.]

IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY, YOU'LL SEE AMY POEHLER'S HEAD EXPLODE: Somewhere beyond mere joy, beyond "my team just won the World Series," beyond the birth of a child ... that's where you've got to place this manic video of today's Oprah audience finding out it was Favorite Things Day.

The Favorite Things are listed here.

NOW IT'S JUST "THAT SINGING SHOW WITH RANDY JACKSON:" Y'know how Adam joked earlier this week that with all the changes to Idol this season, Fox should consider retitling it "The Musical Talent Show That Airs On Fox Tuesdays and Wednesdays?" Well, even that's out the window with Fox's new midseason schedule. Of note:

• Glee has had enough success that it's anchoring Tuesdays on its own, followed by Redneck Baby Endangerment (AKA: Raising Hope), and new comedy Mixed Signals.
• Until Idol starts, Wednesdays are home to Human Target burnoff (too bad, because it's a lot of fun and the changes they've implemented this season seem to work fine aside from the abandonment of the original opening theme), then it's home to Idol and a new half hour comedy with Christian Slater, because when you think funny? You think Christian Slater.
• Thursdays, Idol tries to fill the reality vacuum left by Survivor and take on Big Bang Theory, Community, and whatever ABC winds up putting there (since My Generation tanked, it's been an oddball mix of Grey's repeats and specials), with Bones moving to 9 PM. Something of an odd choice to give Bones, which has had a solid, if never ratings-huge, run the powerful leadin of Idol.
• Fridays--Fox has sent Fringe to its death in the legendary death slot occupied in the past by Firefly, The Good Guys, and Dollhouse. This raises an interesting question--between this and the flops of Morning Glory (which was actually not bad, even if the end had been blatantly reshot and made only limited sense) and Undercovers--are we over J.J. Abrams?
  

DO I FEEL LUCKY?: Given the enthusiasm for the list of best movies filmed in Chicago, below, use this thread to offer up your best five or ten (or twenty or thirty) filmed in your hometown (or nearest or favorite major city).

For me, in order:

1. Bullitt

2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

3. Dirty Harry

4. Vertigo

5. 48 Hours

IF THEY CAN DYE THE RIVER GREEN TODAY, WHY CAN'T THEY DYE IT BLUE THE OTHER 364 DAYS OF THE YEAR?   Chicago Magazine ranks the top forty movies filmed (at least partly) in Chicago, getting number one so fundamentally wrong (given the options) that I have to wonder if the list compiler deliberately chose provocation over accuracy.

Not that its top forty buildings in Chicago list got the order any better, mind you.

I'M AWARE OF AN OVEN IN WHICH YOU COULD REHEAT THOSE $6 MEALS:  I love Wegmans.  I love Alec Baldwin.  Why don't I love these Wegmans ads with Alec Baldwin?

YOUR BOY:  After nearly 32 years and covering ten Olympic Games, every Super Bowl since 1987, nearly every Final Four since 1982 and every NBA Finals since 1987, Michael Wilbon is leaving the Washington Post to concentrate on his television career.

Wilbon, Kornheiser, Howard Kurtz, Tom Shales ... will the last person left at that test prep company's newsletter please remember to turn off the lights?