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Stanley Kubrick was a tireless genius, his mind a impenetrable maze of its own. You can attempt to analyze the auteur's work and pinpoint his intentions but there will always be the sneaking suspision that he knew something just beyond our realm of knowledge and we'll never quite find the answers we're searching for. So when it comes to The Shining, his meticulously-detailed and visually-staggering horror film, everyone tends to hold tightly to their own, very personal theories and opinions—from it being nothing more than a metaphor for WWII to the film as Kubrick's way to express the anxiety he was carrying about secretly helping to fake the moon landing of 1969 (as told in Room 237). And to our thrill, Vulture has pointed out that on The Overlook Hotel—a Shining site run by Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3—you can now read the deleted ending of The Shining in its original text. 

Benedict Cumberbatch from Sherlock always seemed to me to be a cuddly, if bony, little nerd. Well. Trust me. When he's mashed up with a teddy bear, he'll scare the shit out of you.

You have been on a Netflix binge before, but not like this: With the service's Starz partnership set to expire in less than two days, you'll need all the hours you can cramming in episodes of Party Down and crying at Toy Story 3 for the last time. If you remember, Netflix's price increase in 2011 coincided with a failure to lock up a new Starz deal, which is why more than 840 titles will disappear on Thursday. TV and Movies NOW has a handy list of everything you'll be missing, as well as if it's available on Amazon Prime (but come on, who has that). 

● Steve Carell is taking every press opportunity he can to announce his exit from The Office when his contract expires at the end of the show's seventh season. [Vulture] ● Megan Fox allegedly married Brian Austin Green at a Four Seasons in Hawaii, where guests saw Fox and drooled, saw Green and cocked their heads. "Him?" [TMZ] ● Who is the mysterious "horse-boy" from Google Street View? Viral marketing for the next David Lynch project? [BBC]

● Sarah Palin, always a fan of substantive ideas, has called on "divine intervention" to fix BP's oil spill in the gulf. [Twitter] ● Michael Jackson's death comes roaring back into the news one year later, beginning with this detailed timeline of his death day. [AP] ● Mickey Mouse used to be really into amphetamines. [Boing Boing]

● Mariah Carey's new fragrance, "Lollipop Bling," is inspired by her husband Nick Cannon. It smells like Nickelodeon Gak, underachievement, and emasculation. [People] ● There is only one bad review of Toy Story 3. It goes, in part, like this: "Transformers 2 already explored the same plot to greater thrill and opulence." Obviously. [Slashfilm] ● Actors are worried they won't get work if IMDb continues to list their ages. Betty White says "buzz off." [HuffPo]