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Link Time! 10/21

BuzzSugar — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:31:10 PDT

Click here for three reasons why Robert Pattinson should host SNL. - Popwatch
What are the nastiest traps of the Saw movies? - Cinematical
Is Hiro the stupidest Heroes hero? - BuddyTV
Guillermo del Toro's version of Jekyl and Hyde will treat transformation as an addiction. - MTV Movies Blog
Horror films, cut down for wimps! - Pop Candy
A look at "channel drift," when cable networks move away from their original purpose. - TV Squad
The Secret Lives of Bees? Benjamin Button? Shopaholic? Pick a new book club selection for PopUK's book club! - PopUK

Three Remakes Get Space on Guillermo del Toro's 10-Year Plan

BuzzSugar — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:30:40 PDT

You want to get a meeting with Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro? Good luck. According to a story in Variety today, he's booked . . . for about the next decade.

Del Toro, who's already committed five years - five years - to directing and co-writing The Hobbit, has now lined up his next four projects for Universal after that. And they're doozies:

Del Toro will remake Frankenstein, which is apparently a personal fascination for him to the point where he "has made his home a memorabilia shrine to the Karloff monster" from the 1931 film.
He'll also remake Slaughterhouse-Five, saying it will be a more literal interpretation of the Kurt Vonnegut novel than the 1972 film was.
The third remake is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where del Toro also plans to more closely translate Robert Louis Stevenson's original work to film and "explore the addictive high the repressed Jekyll experienced as his murderous alter ego."
The fourth project - which Universal executives think will be the first one he tackles after The Hobbit - is an adaptation of the forthcoming novel Drood, in which the author speculates about what happened to Charles Dickens after he survived a major train crash.

Oh, and that's not all: He's also producing a couple of films and has some personal pet projects in the pipeline, too. There's also the possibility of another Hellboy sequel - though del Toro joked to Variety (probably accurately) that Ron Perlman will be almost 60 by the time he gets around to it. Hey, the more of del Toro's unique visual storytelling that comes to movie theaters, the happier I am; you?

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PMDD: My Dirty Little Secret

FitSugar — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:00:00 PDT

Three years ago I was diagnosed with PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) - it's sort of like PMS on overdrive, except way worse. Before the diagnosis I was embarrassed at how unstable I felt as my period approached, especially when all of my girlfriends seemed to be handling their PMS symptoms in a manageable way.

My menstrual cycles were always preceded by feelings of severe depression, crying bouts, anxiety, fatigue, and extreme back pain that would disappear the day my period started. I decided that I could no longer live like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and had a conversation with my doctor. To my relief she confirmed that what I was going through was much more severe than PMS.

For those of you who might be suffering with PMDD, here are some tips I've learned from my doctor over the years to make life more bearable. You'll want to do everything on this list during the two weeks leading up to your period.

To see my tips,