- Is Youtube worth 1.6 Billion?!? Google is close to thinking so.

- Catch up with the New York Film Fest with Howard Feinstein's Notebook.

- I hope to see my name here one day. The ten scripts selected as finalists for the 21st annual Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are:

- Mahnola Dargis reviews The Departed in the NYT.

- Finally, this: New York Observer reporter Sara Vilkomerson reports that "more than a few guests dismissed Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette" at last week's opening-night party for the N.Y. Film Festival. "It's like sticking your hand in a giant meringue. Mark my words, no one will see it but gays and girls."