Free Tron: Legacy Screenings Tonight! Run!

· Free screenings of Tron: Legacy are happenin’ all over this great nation tonight. See if you and your meager metropolis qualify for shiny Jeff Bridges’ presence after the jump. [Moviefone]

ATLANTA
AMC Parkway Pointe 15 - 7pm
BOSTON
AMC Boston Commons 19 - 7:30pm
CHICAGO
Kerastoes ShowPlace ICON - Chicago - 7pm
DENVER
Regal UA Denver Pavilions 15 - 7pm
HOUSTON
Regal Edwards Greenway Palace 24 - 7pm
LAS VEGAS
Regal Red Rock Stadium 16 & IMAX - 7pm
LOS ANGELES
AMC Burbank 16 - 7pm
AMC Downtown Disney 12 - 7pm
NEW YORK
AMC Empire 25 - 7pm
ORLANDO
Regal Waterford Lakes Stadium 20 - 7pm
PHILADELPHIA
The Pearl at Avenue North - 7pm
PHOENIX
AMC Deer Valley 30 - 7pm
PORTLAND
Regal Division Street 13 - 7pm
SALT LAKE CITY
Century 16 Salt Lake - 7pm
SAN FRANCISCO
AMC Loews Metreon 16 - 7pm
SEATTLE
Regal Meridian 16 - 7pm
TORONTO
Cineplex SilverCity Yonge-Eglinton Centre - 7pm

· NBC’s The Voice of America will attempt to compete with American Idol next year. Doesn’t seem like much of a battle. [Zap2It]

· Yep, you can look forward to another two years of Jimmy Kimmel Live. [Deadline]

· In Between Men is a new web series that’s being posited as a gay Sex and the City. It’s about four gay men “who live ‘in between’ a gay world, whose clichés they don’t relate to, and a straight world they don’t belong to. They are successful, professional men not defined by their sexuality.” I love that a show would think it’s smart for essentially calling all out gay men “cliché.” Yep, that’ll get terrified kids to come out, all right. [Jezebel]

· Roger Ebert claims there are only two movie ratings that matter: “R” and “not R.” Too true. [WSJ]

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21 Questions Ahead of the Midnight Screenings of Burlesque

I’ll be there. You’ll be there. The glitter-caked hopes of a generation will be there. A drag queen with a “Half-Breed” outfit will be there. But most of all, utter skepticism will be there. I’m talking about tonight’s midnight Burlesque premiere, which will raise the stakes on burlesque-themed cinema for weeks to come. To prepare ourselves for the gala at hand, let’s line up the 21 biggest questions that need to be answered by tomorrow morning — when the magic, rouge, and absinthe have faded.

1.) Will Christina be going for Dreamgirls Oscar angst? If so, will her Razzie nomination ruin her?

2.) Is this movie “drag” fabulous, “camp” fabulous, or “ghetto” fabulous? Or regular “ghetto”?

3.) Is there a song in the movie that does not feature the word “burlesque”?

4.) How much of director Steve Antin’s sister Robin, the Pussycat Doll organizer/wrangler, will sneak into my good time?

5.) Does Burlesque star Cher, Christina Aguilera, and Stanley Tucci? Or does it star Meryl Streep as Cher, Christina Aguilera, and Stanley Tucci?

6.) How many times will Cam Gigandet refer to Christina Aguilera’s Iowa-born character as “Iowa”?

7.) Does Burlesque understand that any semblance of a real plot will be insulting to me?

8.) Will Stanley Tucci “out-Cher” Cher?

9.) Is Kristen Bell cleared for working it?

10.) Is it only right if I arrive in a hazmat suit (a la Silkwood) and cry “Karen got cooked!” every time Cher acts a little radioactive?

11.) Does director Steve Antin know that it is often time for Christina to stop talking?

12.) Will Alan Cumming, who plays “the gender-bending host,” ever actually say the word “cabaret”? If he does, can I crawl under my seat, through a hatch, and out of the theater?

13.) Are Cher’s magician jacket and leotard proportionate?

14.) Is this movie going to pretend to understand Los Angeles, in that whimsy-tinged (500) Days of Summer way? Come now.

15.) Will Burlesque patronize us with heterosexuality?

16.) How often are audience members allowed to stand up and politely state, “I am having a great time.”

17.) Which actors will succumb to Cher’s influence and adopt her glamorous Yogi Bear patois when speaking to her?

18.) How will this movie affect the white community?

19.) I will be 40% drunk for this showing. Common sense indicates I should aim for 300%. Am I forgetting to live my best life now?

20.) Can this movie end any other way than with Cher breaking a fountain over Christina’s face — before they both trip and fall into another, larger fountain? On a stage? Inside another fountain?

21.) Can we just call it Masque?

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