Actually, it flings the bacon straight off the table and leaves Chappelle at home in order to get to dancier places more apropos for an earnest homage to a.m. fornication. It’s a perfect jumping-off point for people who are pro-Prince but haven’t figured out exactly what’s going on with the tweets — nothing but a smooth Prince jam, some choreography, and abundant lyrical allusions to sex here.
- Another sexy, highly watchable video: Janelle Monáe’s “PrimeTime,” featuring Miguel. Sooooo good.
- Kumar Pallana, 94-year-old mainstay of Wes Anderson’s films, died yesterday. Here’s a great interview to remember him by.
- Meg Ryan is producing and starring in an NBC sitcom from the writer of Miss Congeniality. Justin Long’s doing an NBC show, too.
- Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP2 track list is here. He’s got Rihanna again, he’s got Kendrick, he’s got the singer from fun., he’s got numerous “Not Afraid”–ish motivational speaker–y sounding song titles.
- Brewery Ommegang’s new Game of Thrones beer is a red ale and it’s all about dragons.
- They’re giving Walter White a funeral, sort of.
- Harrison Ford has “not quite made the choice” to play Han Solo again. That seems to indicate he’s definitely wanted for Episode VII, though, no?
- This Seth Rogen stoner movie will be “a Christmas party movie, or a Christmas movie for stoners,” says Jonathan Levine (50/50, Warm Bodies).
- Rick Ross will drop Mastermind a week before Christmas; there’s a trailer.
- Emma Watson and The Perks of Being a Wallflower author/director Stephen Chbosky may make another movie together.
- These five new teasers for HBO’s True Detective are very short and teasery, but we’ve got a long while until we get to see this beast. Give us whatever. Give us buttons to wear.
- And three rare Nirvana interviews from the very early ’90s emerged from the earth. There’s audio.