By Daniel D'Addario 1/19/12 9:00am

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Forget Extremely Loud! 7 Other Jeopardy! Contestants Who Should Be In Movies

This Friday, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close opens nationwide. The film made headlines not merely for its treatment of the events of September 11, 2001–one of the first mass-market releases to do so–but also for its unusual method of casting its young male lead: Messr. Thomas Horn was discovered on a youth edition of Jeopardy! (Check out his acting in the trailer, below.) Check out seven other Jeopardy! contestants (including one entendre-spewing recent favorite) we think were made for the movies.

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By Matt Haber 10/03/08 9:28pm

Bilingual Trebeking Replaces Rickrolling

You never know when you’re gonna bumble into the next, new internet thing—2.0. Today, Mediabistro’s FishbowlNY blogger Noah Davis offered a post about an article by Larry Platt in the current GQ that restored his faith in journalism and blogging about the same.

Writes Mr. Davis:

Sometimes you read an article that’s so Read More