By far the silliest blog post I’ve read this season — and there have been many — is at stopbenlyons.com. Because the widely dissed TV reviewer chose “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” as his best film of 2008, this site offers up a “Pro-Button Critical Hall of Shame.” It’s a list of other critics the author thinks were foolish enough to list “Button” on their top 10 lists despite Lyons’ endorsement. The offenders include my junior colleague Kyle Smith, Pulitizer Prize-winner Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal, Richard Corliss of Time, three reviewers for the Hollywood Reporter and, oh yeah, yours truly. Our crime? Listing a movie that went on to receive 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The post, which I’m not going to dignify with a link, says the HR gang “have clearly spent too much of the last year smoking out Michael Phelps in their office,” while my review is blamed on “pent-up emotional issues.”



