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‘Bond’ Producers to Amy Winehouse: Stay Clean if You Want to Contribute a Hacky Soundtrack Song

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Winehouse Must Stay Clean for Bond: The producers of the stupidly titled new James Bond movie have told Amy Winehouse that she can perform the credits song for the film if and only if she stays clean through April. We think the only way to write a song called “Quantum of Solace” is to get really, really drunk. [The Sun]

Mose Schrute’s Baseball Blog: Turns out one of the pseudonymous bloggers of the exemplary baseball site Fire Joe Morgan is The Office writer Michael Schur, best known for his majestic appearances as Mose Schrute. [FJM via Deadspin]

VF Taunts Gamers: Too tired to read all 4,000 of Vanity Fair’s words about this summer’s video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed? Let us boil it down for you into four un-VF-ish words: This game sounds awesome. [VF]

The Sound of Silence: This post about the Oscar-nominated sound in No Country for Old Men is boring yet enthralling, just like the movie itself. [In Contention]

We Are Old: Hayden Panettierre’s next movie is a teen comedy co-starring Kieran Culkin titled, no joke, Daydream Nation. [Variety]

‘Bond’ Producers to Amy Winehouse: Stay Clean if You Want to Contribute a Hacky Soundtrack Song