The New York Times has posted a glorious interactive graphic of box office grosses from 1986 to 2008. See how blockbusters spike and then fizzle away and word-of-mouth favorites extend into plump worms. I love how the graphic turns the film industry into a thorny, twisting vine of earth-toned globs — clumped together artery-clogging fat sediments, writhing, with neat Helvetica labels.