I’m sure some of you are very excited about the forthcoming Apple iPhone (personally I wish it had a 60 or 80 gig harddrive- then I’d get one), well the eagle-eyed and stay-up-late amongst you might have noticed that Apple had an ad for its new wonder gizmo running during the Oscars on Sunday night. ‘So what?’ I hear you cry, well it featured many, many clips from movies of people answering the phone with a simple, “hello.” Two of said clips were from two of the Coen brothers’ finest movies, Fargo and The Big Lebowski.

Apple iPhone Oscars ad

Check it out- link on right. Hello to JD for the skinny.

I meant to post this the other day but the below news was way more exciting. Anyhow, Empire magazine polled it’s readership during November and December of last year as to which were the 201 (it was issue 201 of the magazine) Greatest Movies Of All Time. Well I’m sure it’ll come as no surprise that the Coen brothers had a couple of entries there. Coming in at number 120 was Fargo and at the dizzying, nosebleed-inducing height of number 25 was, of course, The Big Lebowksi. The top five reads thus; #5- The Godfather, #4- Star Wars, #3- The Fellowship Of The Ring, #2- The Empire Strikes Back and #1- The Shawshank Redemption. Oh, and the original The Ladykillers came in at #183 which is nice.

It’s quite possibly the most ridiculous piece of movie related merchandise ever produced- the FARGO RUG!!! That’s right, a Fargo themed rug. It looks like a snow bank has been blown against your wall. It’s so unpractical. It’s the frist in a series of movie themed products. It’s rubbish! It definitely does NOT tie the room together! Check it out for yourself- link on the right. Dubious thanks to “finishdish” for pointing this bizarre item out to me.