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I haven’t read E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey, but I’ve heard that it has a somewhat salacious storyline. I’ve also heard that the quality of its prose does not match its huge commercial success. Both the book and the trilogy of which it is a part have been bestsellers, so they are inevitably being turned into movies.

Charlie Hunnam, a British actor most famous for his role on Sons of Anarchy, was slated for the lead role of Christian Grey in the first Fifty Shades movie. But after reading the book itself, Mr. Hunnam has decided to back out of the project due to scheduling conflicts. Taylor Bigler of The Daily Caller reports:

The “Sons of Anarchy” actor last month was cast as the BDSM freak Christian Grey in the movie version of the middle-aged mom porn book, which is widely considered to be an embarrassment to literature and has Thomas Hardy rolling over in his grave. But Entertainment Weekly reported Saturday that the actor dropped out of the film due to “scheduling conflicts.”

Riiiight.

The studio said in a statement Saturday, “The filmmakers of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and Charlie Hunnam have agreed to find another male lead given Hunnam’s immersive TV schedule which is not allowing him time to adequately prepare for the role of Christian Grey.”

Fans of the book were horrified by the casting decision because they actually thought that they could get someone like Ryan Gosling to act in what is sure to be the worst movie of whatever year it will come out.

-via Jim Treacher

This comic from twenty Pixels came out a couple of weeks ago, but I'm just now getting around to sharing it with you. But that's nothing compared to how long it took 20px to actually get around to drawing it! Which kind of procrastinator are you? And don't try to tell us you never put off 'til tomorrow what you should do today. I am at least half of these types. Link -via Laughing Squid

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Daffy Duck is my all-time favorite cartoon character -a slam dunk (Homer Simpson notwithstanding). Steven Spielberg also named Daffy Duck as his favorite cartoon character, so I'm in pretty august company!

Dafffy Duck made his cartoon debut in Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937. Little more than a minor supporting player, this genus of Daffy is not really that funny and is different from the Daffy Duck that was soon to make the entire world laugh.

Legendary animator Fred "Tex" Avery is credited with creating Daffy. Avery, a brilliant legend in the animation world, came up with Daffy's screwball character, which was soon to rival the "normal" everyman characters: Mickey Mouse and Popeye, in popularity in the 1940s on into the early '60s. 

Daffy Duck was to be animation's first completely uninhibited cartoon character. Film critic Steve Schneider once called Daffy "a kind of unleashed id."

According to Bob Clampett (Daffy's original animator): "At that time, audiences weren't accustomed to seeing a cartoon character do these things. And so, when it hit theaters, it was an explosion. People would leave the theaters talking about this Daffy Duck."