From Vanity Fair’s website, an amazing slide show of lobby cards—“the gorgeous promotional posters that were a common sight in movie theaters from the early 20th century through the 1960s.” They’re from the collection of the late screenwriter Leonard Schrader, the brother of screenwriter-director Paul Schrader.

The slide show itself is here; Peter Biskind’s introductory essay is here.

To read more about this incredible trove of Hollywood ephemera, visit the collection’s official site.

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This hit the web a few days ago and hasn’t gone wide yet, which is a surprise, because it’s hilarious. It’s the latest top show at Channel 101, the L.A.-based web-video operation also responsible for such brilliant goofballery as House of Cosbys, Yacht Rock, and The ’Bu. This is by excitable House of Cosbys creator Justin Roiland, the funniest writer-actor-animator-director-pervert-scatologist working on the web today. Ladies and gentlemen, 2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show.

(If you’re unaware of the 2 Girls, 1 Cup phenomenon, make sure you read this Wikipedia entry before deciding to watch this.)

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