The beloved rescue dog of acclaimed novelist Dennis Lehane (of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone, Baby, Gone fame) recently went missing in Brookline — the suburban Boston town Lehane calls home.

Here's a trailer for The Town, Ben Affleck's second directorial effort. Like Gone Baby Gone, it's a Boston-set crime drama based on a novel and is about gritty men doing gritty things, grittily. Only this one has more shooting.

Take a quick peek out of your window: If the surrounding area is not being ravaged by wildfires, proceed to the weekend's box office numbers and begin your week:

· Just for the proverbial shits n' giggles, here's another clip from Dr. Phil's Late Show appearance last night. Panties, or the lack thereof, are discussed.
· The LAT gets to know Hoboken Beach Diet Guy, with whom you're already probably pretty well acquainted by now.
· Leave Britney Alone Guy gets his Gallery of the Absurd moment. Also, his Howard Stern moment. And his ABC News moment.
· Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone might not become a huge hit in the UK.

According to a review in THR, Gone Baby Gone is "going to be remembered as one of the best crime movies of this decade." Yup, the Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck. [THR/Reuters]