Have you heard about Lincoln? It’s a movie about, uh, Lincoln, where Daniel Day-Lewis plays Abraham Lincoln and Academy Award winner Sally Field plays Mary Todd Lincoln. (I feel like the Boniva commercials might undermine her credibility as Mary Todd, but whatever.)

Anyway, the movie is currently shooting in Virginia, where Daniel Day-Lewis recently took his ridiculously accurate facial hair out on a lunch date. Also! According to Variety‘s Jeff Sneider, “Day-Lewis hasn’t broken his Lincoln accent since March.”

Lincoln also stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tommy Lee Jones, with Jackie Earle Haley, John Hawkes, James Spader, and Tim Blake Nelson all in supporting roles. Wow, right?

Here is a real, actual phone conversation I had last night with my best friend, who recently moved to Los Angeles:

Me: Auuuugh! Did you read that Marie Osmond is joining Bold and the Beautiful?

BFF: I… just don’t think that’s true. I think she was kidding.

Me: OK, whatever. Forget it. How about this? James Spader might join the cast of The Office. They’re in negotiations now.

BFF: Oooooh, James Spader. I love him.

Me: Sure you do. Because you’re a big creep-o.

BFF: I know! But his cameo on the show was so good. Did you see it?

Me: Mhm, but only just now. Man, this is such inspired casting. You should always bring in James Spader to salvage a television show in its death throes. Remember when Dylan McDermott left The Practice? And they brought James Spader in? I remember watching him and thinking, ‘Oh, boy, they should just kill this whole dumb charade and give James Spader his own spin-off.’ And they did. Boston Legal?

BFF: Oh, my God, I loved Boston Legal.

Me: Really? I didn’t. But I was proud of my prescience. Oh, speaking of David E. Kelley shows, listen to this. From Entertainment Weekly: “But producers have a different role in mind for Spader: CEO of Dunder Mifflin, replacing Kathy Bates, who sources say will exit the show to focus on season 2 of Harry’s Law.”

BFF: Oh, nooooooo.

Me: Right? Kathy Bates, don’t do it! I love her, but Harry’s Law is the worst.

BFF: I want to like it, but it’s so boring.

Me: Oh. There’s more from Entertainment Weekly. “‘In the finale, he kicked ass,’ says a source close to the show. ‘He was so funny and had this weird energy. We didn’t want to pass it up.’”

BFF: Of course he has weird energy. He’s James Spader!

Me: He is such a freak, I love him.

BFF: Me, too!

Me: You’re so creepy.

After seven beautiful seasons of magic and wonderment, Steve Carell‘s very last episode is next Thursday.  And I’m not ready. I could go on and on about all the special moments that The Office has brought to this world, but I already did that this week (in a conversation that started with me telling a friend that she was going to “cut off her nose to spiderface” and ended with the two dudes we were with getting too annoyed after we started punctuating every sentence we said with “BOOM! ROASTED!”) and it’s just too painful.

To ease our broken hearts, NBC is totally bringing it with the season finale on May 19.  It’s going to be an hour-long extravaganza featuring the talents of Ricky Gervais, Will Arnett, Jim Carrey, Ray Romano, James Spader, Catherine Tate and, of course, Will Ferrell.  It’s not going to make up for the hurt in my heart, but at least I’ll probably laugh through the tears. Especially with Will Arnett.  Arrested Development, right?

So where do you guys stand on this?  Do you still think that The Office is going to fail after Steve leaves, or are you willing to give it a chance for season eight?