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This week's extremely unpleasant mental image comes via The New Yorker's resident comedian-cum-film critic, Anthony Lane and his review of Matt Drudge's favorite film, Sin City:

[Elijah] Wood is ominously good at the stillness of this maniac, which only doubles the shock. It s like discovering that Gandalf used to lure young hobbits into a shed and show them his special wand.

Now, go wash that out of your brain. Use Brill-O.

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