HOMEY, APPARENTLY, PLAYS THAT:  Keenan Ivory Wayans is reviving In Living Color for a pair of specials as part of Fox's 25th anniversary celebration next year.  One can only hope that Duet and Herman's Head revivals will follow.

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES HOMER SOMETHING SOMETHING: Matt Zoller Seitz slideshows his ten favorite Treehouse of Horror segments.

(Yes, we've done this before.)

CLEARLY, HE DID NOT ALWAYS HAVE SUCH SKEPTICISM OF GOVERNMENT: Did you know that a crew cutted Nick Offerman appeared on The West Wing as one of the people advocating spending $900 million on the "Wolves-Only Roadway?"

ASIDE FROM THAT, MRS. LINCOLN, HOW WAS THE PLAY? The opening paragraph of the NYT's takedown of Anonymous (the inexplicable Roland Emmerich "Shakespeare was a fraud!" movie) is well worth your time, even if the movie apparently isn't. What's exciting you at the movies of late as we move into Oscar-bait and holiday blockbuster season?

WE WILL SEE YOU ... TOMORROW NIGHT:  Perhaps it was serendipitous that this occurred on the eve of the release of a Justin Timberlake scifi film regarding the condemned doing whatever they could to steal little bits of time to remain alive, but, wow, what a game. From the Freese error on the popup to the decision not to pinch-hit for Colby Lewis in the fifth, to Tony LaRussa calling in a starting pitcher to pinch-hit for a starting pitcher who had been announced as a pinch-hitter for the reliever scheduled to bat, to all the ridiculous glory of innings 7-11, wow. Thank you, baseball.  Can we please have another?

DO WE HAVE A 'SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE ADAPTATIONS' DESK?  Prepare to experience the Battle of East Tremont like you've never seen it before, because HBO has signed Oliver Stone to direct an adaptation of Robert Caro's The Power Broker being penned by Nicholas Meyer.

PREPARE FOR THE QUARTER QUELL: With the film opening now about five months away, it's time for Hunger Games hype to move into full gear. I'm assuming we'll get a full trailer with one of the Thanksgiving/Christmas blockbusters (sadly, likeliest guess? Breaking Dawn: Part One), but today we get 8 character posters, giving us our first look at Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna, and Rue. Nothing of Donald Sutherland's President Snow or Stanley Tucci's Caesar Flinkman yet, but for a film targetted at teens, they're surprisingly dark.