The past few months have seen Mr. “Wes C. Addle”—Eddie Vedder—looking more like Mr. Tinseltown than just another (incredibly talented) Easy Street customer. Times don’t look like they’ll be a-changin’ in 2008. Vedder recorded a song for the Cate Blanchett Bob Dylan study I’m Not There, penned two for the documentary Body of War, then a whole soundtrack for Sean Penn’s Into the Wild. He’ll appear in the upcoming singer-biopic spoof Walk Hard. He’s just......

In the middle of Steven Pinker's talk at Town Hall last night, the lecture morphed into some surprisingly blue comedy. We'll warn you now: what follows is adult language content. Talking about an FCC ruling (on Bono's infamous "This is really fucking brilliant!" live outburst after winning a Golden Globe award), Pinker noted that the way the FCC saw it, Bono was employing "fucking" as an adverb modifying the adjective "brilliant" -- but "did not......

Hoping to start catching up on all the films that are likely to garner Oscar nominations, Seattlest went to see Felicity Huffman's Golden Globe-winning turn in Transamerica, playing to a surprisingly packed house (on a weeknight no less!) at Pacific Place. Huffman is indeed excellent as a pre-op transsexual named Bree whose appointment to take the final plunge into womanhood is threatened when she learns she fathered a son named Toby, played competently by Kevin......

So here's our theory on the matter: The powers that be over at Seattle Grace headquarters have been gliding through these past couple post-holiday episodes as quickly and with as little effort or creative output as possible in order to gear up for the All Important Super Bowl Show, made even more All Important by the recent addition of our very own Seahawks. And lest you place Seattlest in a similar category (one of gliding......