It's always exciting when the girl who was never supposed to make it totally makes it! And so yay, the New Yorker profile of Anna Faris today (subscription only!), who can now place herself on a list of lady actress script-readers behind "Reese, Cameron, Natalie Portman, Kate Hudson, Katherine Heigl and Anne Hathaway." (Sidebar: at least two of those are frightening and crazy and also chronic liars! To be fair, at least two of them are kindly and human.) But it's a very good look at the "problem" of women doing comedy. Hmm. Is it a "problem"? It's a problem, if you want to spend a lot of money on a movie and then make a lot of money, which is the only goal in Hollywood. It's not a problem if you want to have a good time and make cool stuff, which, then don't move to L.A. READ MORE

Keith Richards may have just been replaced as the no. 1 ranked coolest human being on the planet. Judging from a fascinating article in today's Science Times, Dr. Carolyn Porco, who monitors the cameras on the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn for the past five years, seems pretty tough to beat. READ MORE