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I just got Thor the Dark World On Vudu and went straight to "All Hail The King". The one shot Producers promised will rectify the entire Mandarin fiasco from Iron Man 3. It appears the real Mandarin is quite upset about Mr. Slattery's performance of him and has sent in one of his operatives to extract Trevor to face punishment from him personally. Trevor being high as a kite as always still didn't get where the conversation was going and asks if he knows who the operative is talking about to which the Ten Rings Operative posing as a journalist replies "You took his name... And he wants it Back!" Also in a surprise post credits scene it is revealed that Justin Hammer is alive and well And Funny as ever) and resents the attention Trevor is getting. Since the real Mandarin was not in the short this gives...

Last night’s Mad Men TimesTalks panel featured creator Matthew Weiner and stars January Jones, Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Jared Harris, Christina Hendricks, and Vincent Kartheiser. It had a good host in New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, but it didn’t have much to say about the long-awaited fifth season, which starts this Sunday. In fact, audience members were warned before the Q&A not to even mention it—and no one did. But among all the chat about past seasons, eight or so interesting Mad Men tidbits did reveal themselves.

For all five seasons, John Slattery (Roger...

Getty File photograph of Szot and O’Hara from 2009.

Having already mastered a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, former “South Pacific” co-stars Paulo Szot and Kelli O’Hara moved on to conquering the works of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe in a celebration of the musical theater duo’s works Friday night at Carnegie Hall. The final performance of Music Director Steven Reineke’s inaugural season with the New York Pops, the night also featured tenor Michael Slattery, the Clurman Singers, and dancers from the New York Theatre Ballet.

The focus, of course, remained on Szot and O’Hara, who while singing at each other in “South Pacific” on and off for the better part of two years, never truly sang with the other, a situation which was remedied on Friday. The evening began with selections from “Camelot,” Paint Your Wagon,” and “Gigi,” and concluded with numbers from “Brigadoon...