IN BRIGHTEST DAY, IN BLACKEST NIGHT:Y'know that massively budgeted Green Lantern we're getting this summer with Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and Mark Strong? Wouldn't you be much more excited if we were getting one with Nathan Fillion, Elisabeth Moss, and Jason Isaacs? Well, good news! We are (but it's animated/direct to DVD),

THINK TWICE; THAT'S MY ONLY ADVICE: Did you know that Gnarls Barkley's hit "Crazy" had two killer guitar solos? It does when Cee-Lo Green shows up at Prince's last MSG concert to perform it. Very long setlist is here.  (Same adept cameraman also filmed his cover of The Time's "Cool" with ?uestlove; there is decent footage of "Little Red Corvette," "Kiss," and "Purple Rain" available as well.)

STILL WAITING FOR MANATYPUS:  After discussing the upcoming film Untitled 3D Shark Project (actually, that's the title for now), producer Roger Corman revealed that filming begin next month for his next made-for-SyFy movie .... Piranhaconda.

HEY, BATTER BATTER BATTER, SUH-WING BATTER:  An intrepid writer for Baseball Prospectus out together all the available visual and sonic evidence to determine exactly what Chicago Cubs game Ferris Bueller attended while truant, including who hit the foul ball in his direction (which he caught almost four months later, actually), adding:

More interesting than that is the timeline that this presents for Ferris. It's said in the movie that the reservation he stole was for noon, but we can't say with certainty if that's what time they ate. Seeing as how they finished the lunch with no hassles, it's safe to assume either Abe never showed up or he showed up well after their lunch was finished. Either way, with a start time of 1:25pm that afternoon, there is plenty of time for Ferris and company to make it to Wrigley in time for the game.

The eleven-inning game took 3:09 to complete, which means that the foul ball Ferris catches had to have been sometime after 4:00pm. That leaves, at the most, one hour and forty-five minutes for their trips to the museum, Sears Tower, the lake, and Sloane's house, while squeezing in two musical numbers during the parade before racing home at 5:55pm. Seems a bit tough to squeeze all of that in for most normal people. But, seeing as Ferris has the magical ability to sound exactly like both a young Wayne Newton and a young John Lennon, I'm willing to believe he could make the schedule work.

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN...DEAD: Apparently, if you stitch together various clips of McBain from the Simpsons, there's a whole movie to be had.

THE SHEER INEPTITUDE OF THIS SHOW LOSES ITS SHOCK VALUE EARLY:  The NYT's Ben Brantley reviews the yet-to-open musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. "So grievously broken in every respect that it is beyond repair" is among the Moose Murders-level turns of phrase employed.

NYMag's Scott Brown likes it a little more, calling it "by turns hyperstimulated, vivid, lurid, overeducated, underbaked, terrifying, confusing, distracted, ridiculously slick, shockingly clumsy, unmistakably monomaniacal and clinically bipolar."

WaPo: "To be sure, Taymor has found a way to send her superhero soaring above the audience. And yet, the creature that most often spreads its wings in the Foxwoods is a turkey."

EVERY MORNING AT NINE:  I'm glad to welcome to the blogosphere a friend to many here, Ajit Pai, whose new blog highlights the obituaries of the day.  I mention this now because I look forward to his take on an obit now running in the Times, as "Had Ear Cut Off By Captors" is not a phrase I'd want in the headlines about my death.  (Nor would I want to have my ear cut off. Do read the story of J. Paul Getty III; it's quite Bunny Lebowski-esque.)