American Girl announced yesterday that it would discontinue all products related to Samantha Parkington?! — Popwatch Were those a bunch of clues about the future on How I Met Your Mother last night? — The TV Addict Check out a list of the seven funniest horror movies, and the lowdown on this year's most popular movie-inspired Halloween costumes (Joker, Iron Man, etc.). — Cinematical Check Read more

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 Read more

I awoke this morning to the sad news that groundbreaking novelist Kurt Vonnegut died Wednesday at age 84. As reported by the AP, Vonnegut's wife, photographer Jill Krementz, said the writer suffered brain injuries following a recent fall at his home in Manhattan. Probably best-known for his books Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut was truly one of the most important American writers Read more