MAN FREES BABY FROM CORNER:  Dave Holmes reviews all thirty-eight movie/tv soundtracks which have topped the Billboard charts since Purple Rain did thirty years ago this week (and for the next twenty-three weeks as well).

SPINNING TOP:  The culture brahmins at Sight and Sound, long famed for their decennial Best Film Ever survey, have compiled their first Best Documentaries Ever survey, which is topped by Dgiza Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera and Claude Lanzmann's Shoah. Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line was the top American entry (5th place); Hoop Dreams placed 17th.

A separate directors' survey locks Titicut Follies into 6th place, and finds room for Ross McElwee's Sherman's March with the larger poll did not.

THIS SURVEY HAS BEEN NORMAN MAILERED, MAXWELL TAYLORED, JOHN O'HARA'D AND MCNAMARA'D:  According to some survey of 2000 British people, the "weirdest song lyric of all time" is The Killers'  "Are we human, or are we dancer?", narrowly edging out the distinction between Eggman and Walrus, Lionel Richie's faux-Swahili in "All Night Long," and Carly Rae Jepsen's chronologically impossible "Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad."  [Also, "The Reflex." FlexflexflexflexFLEX.]

ENGLISH. DO YOU SPEAK IT?  All 171 times on screen that Samuel L. Jackson has used a 12-letter word alleging incest, in 3:38.

GELMAN!  All the Sharknado 2 cameos, GIF'd.  

As a reminder/warning, Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda debuts Saturday night.

I WISH: We have an Into The Woods trailer, and they're clearly going "dark and semi-realistic" (somewhat surprisingly so, for what is hoped to be a big family blockbuster, though quite similar to Maleficent) and hiding exactly what Johnny Depp will look like as the Wolf.  (Billing order, for those who care?  Streep, Blunt, Corden, Kendrick, Pine, "and" Depp.)  Not much singing in the trailer, either.  Begin judgment now.

I AM BURDENED WITH GLORIOUS E-MAIL:  After reading the first draft of the Avengers script, Tom Hiddleston wrote a gushing e-mail to writer/director Joss Whedon, calling his part "grand and epic and majestic and poetic and poetic and lyrical and wicked and rich and badass."