- Bravo Jesse Eisenberg! Ever since I saw "Adventureland" (also starring Kristen Stewart. Gross.), I though he was poised to take up Michael Cera's mantle of awkward, ill-fitting T-shirts. Turns out the guy has some acting chops afterall. If this doesn't break him out of the Cera-on-a-budget roles, nothing will.
- I knew the Winklevoss twins, aka Armie Hammer, looked familiar! Hammer played scam artist/Serena love interest Gabriel on "Gossip Girl!"
- After the movie my boyfriend and I stormed Wikipedia to figure out who the hell Sean Parker is. In the movie, he was fairly instrumental in getting Zuckerberg to think bigger with Facebook. Drew insisted Shawn Fanning started Napster and that Justin Timberlake acted nothing like him. I said Sean Parker sounded familiar. Turns out, Sean Parker was Napster's business guy (which I guess says something about his business skills...) and Shawn Fanning was the programmer. Why was no one else confused by this?
- This is a movie of soon-to-be stars - like a concert when the opening band is booked before they score that big hit. I saw Andrew Garfield at a screening of "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" last year at TIFF. He was excellent as Facebook CFO Eduardo, and now that "Never Let Me Go" is finally showing in Buffalo, I'll be able to get my fill of the next Spiderman. Rooney Mara, here playing Zuckerberg's ex-girlfriend Erica, is set to take off, too, with the American version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" as, well, the girl with the dragon tattoo, Lisbeth. This year is quite the introduction to these two.
