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Today in culture: Shirley MacLaine gives us the dirt on Downton Abbey, and Jeremy Renner may portray the silver fox of Wikileaks.

-Passion Pit’s Gossamer is autobiographical.

-Frank Rich mourns the death of America.

-The IRL Fetish.

-A clip from the lamentable new Anna Karenina film.

-Jeremy Renner might play Julian Assange in a film.

-David Bordwell on German Expressionism.

-Who are the 25 new faces of independent film?

-Writing for video games.

-Shirley MacLaine dishes on Downton.

-Amis at Vulture.

-Yes, there is another book about Marilyn Monroe coming out, and yes, it is called The Passion and the Paradox.