Weekend Links: Building the Gatsby Estate

Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby features lavish period sets—42 in total. Gatsby’s mansion alone, with its grand ballroom, library, master bedroom, entrance hall, terrace, and extensive gardens, took the production team 14 weeks to build.

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Yes, videos of goats yelling like humans are hilarious. So is this one man’s impression of how animals—lizards, whales, kangaroos, and one very memorable flamingo—eat.

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First lines of great novels can go down in history, but what comes immediately after often isn’t nearly as memorable. For a real test of your literary knowledge, try guessing these famous novels by their second lines.

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Mad Men is back with its latest season, so in honor of its long-awaited return, here are 25 things you (probably) didn’t know about Don Draper and company.

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These 20 actors talking about their favorite actors remind us that everyone is inspired by someone else.

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Your favorite authors on their favorite musicians: García Márquez was a fan of the Beatles, as is J. K. Rowling; Stephen King prefers country and Bob Dylan.

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The Cook Your Cupboard project encourages confounded chefs to upload pictures of those last few items in their pantry that they can’t cook with, but can’t bring themselves to get rid of. Other users then suggest potential uses for their poppyseeds, coconut milk, almond paste, apple cider vinegar, chicken livers, kidney beans, cookie butter, Funyuns, etc.

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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died this week, leaving behind a legacy of some very, very angry songs.