The News: All-Positive Friday! Video Edition

By S.T. VanAirsdale

As per tradition, some of today's more upbeat movie news of note from around New York:

--If ever there were a need for an all-positive Friday, I feel it today. So numb is my brain, so beaten my spirit, that nothing will do but full-on vegetative statery. By which I mean: Have a look at the finest video the Web has to offer -- or at least the stuff that's abated my catatonic misery at all the horrors in the world. Technically, Drew Carey is one of those horrors, but somehow even he cannot fuck up hosting The Price is Right. To wit (H/T: Pajiba):

--A tipster recently pointed me back to NYC filmmaker Anne Flournoy's splendid short Nadja Yet, 10 minutes of repeat viewing I welcome any day of the week:

--While the increasingly frail Norman Mailer recovers from a lung operation, we honor him with this testament to his influence. You can watch him fight Rip Torn all day, but he never had an opponent as formidable as Sookie from Gilmore Girls:

Posted at October 19, 2007 9:15 AM