But what’s her favorite flavor?
We’re not sure which we love more—Amy Poehler or pudding. So it’s only fitting that Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named her its Woman of the Year, which the university announced Tuesday. She’ll be given a parade and a roast Jan. 29. Poehler seems to have not yet publicly commented, which seems odd given that she usually has a smartass comment about pretty much everything.
“My first day as a woman, and I’m already getting hot flashes!”
It’s one thing to burn down a house, but it’s quite another to try to burn down the house from “Mrs. Doubtfire.” But that’s exactly what some kook did earlier this week, Reuters reports. The San Francisco home, owned by a physician who may be feuding with a former patient, thankfully suffered only slight damage. Couldn’t the guy just have tried a run-by fruiting instead?
THE DIGIT
$1.6 billion
That’s how much Americans spent downloading movies and TV shows in 2014, variety.com reports. Titles like “Frozen,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “The Lego Movie” and “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” topped the list, though that whole “Interview” thing made for a pretty nice year-end boost. The banned-from-American-theaters flick, which so far has earned $33 million, will be released in U.K. theaters on Feb. 6, thr.com reports.
Walkman this way?
Are you still nostalgic for your bright-yellow Walkman
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, your old friend who played casette tapes? Too bad, because it doesn’t look like Sony is selling the brand-new Walkman NW-ZX2 in that color. Announced at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the luxury MP3 player reportedly will cost $1,199.99 and feature 128 GB of storage, pitchfork.com reports. TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS?!?!?! (Also, anyone remember the Zune?)THE DIGIT
27,000
That’s how many New York City students will be offered free admission to “Selma,” thr.com reports. The tickets comes via a partnership with Paramount Pictures and 27 African-American business leaders, and will be made available to seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders through Jan. 19, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Marco? Hello!
Apparently it didn’t take Netflix long to realize “Marco Polo” was a hit: The streaming series annouced Wednesday the show, which premiered in December, has been renewed for a second season, thr.com reports. Also revealed Wednesday were premiere dates for new series “Marvel’s Daredevil” (April 10), “Bloodline” (March 20), “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (March 6) and “Grace and Frankie” (May 8). Will this hold us over until “Game of Thrones” comes back to HBO in April? UNLIKELY.