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I just read one of the true items elsewhere (see how good I was in not spilling the beans, and ruining the poll?), so it was already whittled down to two. The Coen brothers thing just does not ring true, so that got my vote.

The Sweet Valley High movie is real -- it's all over the entertainment news this morning. Not sure about Duchovny/Anderson thing but I agree with Cindy that the Coens have enough on their plate without resorting to playing the sequel game. Plus, Turturro is plenty old enough. A is the lie.

I'm gonna go with b for the lie.

But mostly because I do want Sweet Valley High to come to the big screen. squeeee

Gotta be A.

C seems so smack-the-forehead obvious "why haven't they already raped this by now?"

B actually sounds like something I might watch. So that's probably it.

But I'm stickin' with A.

Dr. C-it's one of my FAVORITE movies :)

Soapdish is awesome. Yet another example of RDJ's brillance, and one of the only things I actually enjoyed Elizabeth Shue in.

I like deadpan Duchovny, like the X-Files episode where the shapeshifter assumes his identity and is constantly trying to kiss Scully and saying, "F. B. I." One of my favorite episodes of any show.

It has to be A. B sounds like the type of stunt casting Hollywood pats themselves on the back for. C is obviously going to happen. Nothing like the Sweet Valley girls getting a hipster makeover. "The Fray speak to my soul. Let's make out in an ironic way."

I'm gonna say b is the lie. I already heard about c at some point, and i don't know anything about a (I've never seen Barton Fink. Does that make me a bad Pajiban?), but b I would actually watch, if only in the hopes that their characters would, y'know, do it. I don't know if Mulder and Scully got around to it, since I didn't watch that last X-Files movie, 'cause of how I lost interest before the series even ended, let alone 10 years later, but I'd really, REALLY like to see that happen. I mean, I've had detailed fantasies about it. Really detailed. I may know more about Gillian Anderson than her gynecologist...

Anyway. b is the lie. Oh, and in Skitz's poll, it's a trick question. They're all true!

Dammit, I'll beat you next time, !!!!

*shakes gloved fist in air and laughs maniacally*

Jeezum Crowe. It's B that's the lie... and I had so hoped that it would be true.

But it's still hard to believe that Diablo Cody will write Sweet Valley High, the celebrated home of "everything will be alright and you'll still chow down at the Dairi Burger at the end despite all your problems with identical psycho stalker killer(s), fat friends and dead boyfriends so long as you are blonde, tan, a perfect size six and have deep blue sea-green eyes"?

She better not ruin that precious little ironic completely non-feminist gem from my childhood. I'm not embittered or attached to it enough to threaten violence, but it would be another perma-cringe that I didn't need.

B is the lie and it sounds stupid. "A" will happen and C is exactly what one would expect given the stuios proclivity for producing steaming pile after steaming pile.

I'd have to go with B, though that would be amazing if it were true. Sadly I'm sure several of my still-hardcore phile friends (yes, some still exist and I apparently know them all) would have told me already if B had any truth to it.

I picked 3, after the disastrous flop that was Jennifer's Body, Cody would be lucky to check the spelling mistakes on a script, and then completely re-edit the script with out of place pop culture references.

Barton Fink has to be the fake. I don't seem to recall the Coen Brothers being so open about their next project in the past. I mean, I recall the "what was that?" commotion when the A Serious Man trailer was released seemingly out of nowhere.

I do recall hearing about Anderson and Duchovny teaming up again and about the Sweet Valley High adaptations. The wildcard is if that is the project the X-Files duo are involved in. I think it could be. Sounds dumb enough to be real.

B is the lie. Too goofy...and no way those two team up again for a non-X-Files venture.

When you read C here, it sounds like it can't be fucking true. No way.

But I, too, follow the interwebs (and Diablo Cody on Twitter), so I voted A. ::shrugs::

B is the lie. Everyone knows that the non-X-Files reunion will be on Californication.

OK, no one really knows it but everyone should be praying for it, trust me.

*SPOILER ALERT*

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I must have missed that, since I was to busy looking at the RiverDog video. And being sad about Jason Segel making out with Chloe Sevigny.

Anyhoodle, I just came back to ask: What is the header pic from?

If Skitz thinks he's the first guy to get inside a horse in Minnesota,forget lying, he's dreaming.

Also, I loved Soapdish. I'd watch it right now if it magically appeared on cable.

What is this general bias against sequels? Sure, there are many crappy ones that are all about the money, but lots of sequels are good, and it's not like Barton Fink is the typical studio boilerplate that generates sequels. If you have good characters, a good style, and something else to say, why the hell shouldn't you tell another story? Why shouldn't the Coens give a sequel a shot? It's not as if they aren't ridiculously prolific with nearly a film per year as of late and would be wasting that much time.

Also, Diablo Cody just sold a pitch for seven figures yesterday, so I think she's doing fine. It's tough for me to understand why blame can be assigned to her based on an opening weekend figure when: 1) opening weekend box office is based on marketing, and 2) it's not like they were blatantly pushing Jennifer's Body as being from the writer of Juno. 90 percent of the general audience can barely name one movie screenwriter, much less for the movie they happen to be watching. If you want to blame her for writing a bad movie, that's fine. But one hit (Oscar-winning, no less) and one miss isn't a bad batting record.

I'm going with [b]B[/b] for the lie because I desperately hope it is.

A has got to be a lie. It doesn't fit with anything about the original movie to do something like this. But then again, Joe Heller did eventually write 'Closing Time,' which totally maced so much of 'Catch-22' it was painful...

Natch, GIYF if you want to know which of these statements has buzz on some site, but I honestly think it'd be hard to classify any of these as truth at this stage.