Some eagerly anticipated Blu-ray debuts are making noise by hosting limited screenings in theaters. First up is the Coen Brothers’ now classic The Big Lebowski. The DVD comes out on August 16 and that day there will be a screening at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. that will include a special Q & A with Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore and T Bone Burnett, as well as a screening of the film and other festivities. Not only will the Blu-ray be out that day but it also is the debut of Jeff Bridges’ self-titled album.
A few weeks later, on August 31, Universal Studios will release their Al Pacino hit, Scarface, for a one night run at more than 475 theaters across the country. The showing will be a t7:30 local time from coast to coast and is being presented by NCM Fathom and Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Fans who attend this special event will also get an exclusive look at a 20-minute special feature that showcases interviews with popular filmmakers and talent expressing how this epic feature redefined the gangster genre, leaving an enduring influence on cinema.
Tickets for the Scarface Special Eventare available at participating theater box offices and online. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, visit the NCM Fathom website (theaters and participants are subject to change). The Scarface Special Event will appear in more than 475 select movie theaters across the country via the new digital cinema projection systems.
The newly restored print will make its appearance on disc September 6. For a limited time only, the Scarface Special Limited Edition Blu-ray comes with collectible SteelBookTM packaging, 10 exclusive art cards, a digital copy of the film and a DVD of the original 1932 Scarface.
In the what won’t thiey think of next department, we just received this release about Kitchen ware. Yes, when you’re ready to get back to baking as the summer heat fades, you can decorate your fall cupcakes for school with Marvel heroes. Interestingly, as seen in the graphic, classic Marvel Age artwork is being used, clearly appealing to an older demographic.
New York, NY, August 3, 2011 – Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a global character-based entertainment licensing company, and Williams-Sonoma, a member of the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. portfolio of brands, today announced the launch of an exclusive collection of Super Hero kitchen and bakeware merchandise exclusively sold at Williams-Sonoma. Designed exclusively for the retailer, the products include renowned Super Heroes from the Marvel Universe including Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America and Iron Man. Featuring retro character art and graphics, the Williams-Sonoma collection captures the charm and artistry of the original Marvel Comics.
The program launches with an array of bakeware and kitchen essentials including Cookie Cutters, Pancake Molds, Adult and Child Aprons, Spatulas and Iced Cookies. Product will be available at all Williams-Sonoma stores in the U.S. and Canada, and also via catalog and online at www.williams-sonoma.com/.
“Building upon our incredibly successful relationship with Williams-Sonoma Inc., we are excited to launch a great new line of merchandise at Williams-Sonoma stores, bringing the Marvel brand to another audience and product segment,” said Paul Gitter, President of Consumer Products for North America, Marvel Entertainment. “We are working with Williams-Sonoma on helping kids and adults spend time together in the kitchen.
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced passage of the Marriage Equality Act by a margin of 33 to 29, granting same-sex couples the freedom to marry under the law. New York is the sixth and largest state to approve gay marriage, effectively doubling the number of Americans living in states with the freedom to marry.
But don’t worry, you can still look down on stinkin’ mutants…
Since creating their unique modern pulp hero, FBI Special Agent Pendergast, writers Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have miserly doled out small pieces of his background history.The highlight of which seemed to be the monumental trilogy that depicted the battle with his demented brother, Diogenes.Still there remains missing elements and with FEVER DREAM, the tenth book in the series, the pair once again sets about filling in those pieces.At the offset we are introduced to Helen Esterhazy, the beautiful and brilliant woman who would be Mrs. Pendergast for an all too brief time only to die in a horrible hunting accident while on safari in Africa.
Now, twelve years after that tragic event, Pendergast uncovers irrefutable evidence that Helen’s death was not an accident but murder, the result of a well orchestrated scheme but a merciless killer. A man of obsessive passions, once this information comes to light, Pendergast becomes a living dynamo set upon a singular quest; to discover the murderers and wreak his vengeance upon them.To accomplish this, he recruits his long time friend and ally, New York police detective, Vincent D’Agosta much to the frustration of the cop’s lover, Chief Laura Hayward.Hayward doesn’t trust Pendergast because of his unorthodox methods and is forever worried his recklessness will jeopardize D’Agosta career or worse, get him killed.
This time her fears are almost realized as the pair begin traveling the globe unaware their inquiries into this decades old mystery has made them the targets of a ruthless, professional killer. The non-stop action moves from the African bush to the bayou swamplands of the south making FEVER DREAM another solid entry into what has become this reviewer’s favorite modern pulp series.As I’ve always preferred paperback editions to the hardbacks, my apologies for these reviews being somewhat late.If you love great characters and truly bizarre story plots, the Special Agent Pendergast books should be on your must-read list.Believe me, you will not be disappointed.
Enchanted forests, haunted hillsides, secluded cabins and the creatures that reside in dark places – have had us biting our nails since the early German Expressionist film era. Witches, werewolves, monsters and maniacs can be lurking ‘round the corner just about any place you can imagine. With Nicholas Cage’s Season of The Witch out on DVD and Blu-ray next week,we’re going to take a look at some of the most iconic and eerie locales in thrillers and horror films that make for the best places to splatter, slice and slash.
Lakes
Crystal Lake is well-known from the beloved Friday The 13th and even though those films are set in New York, there so happens to be a real Crystal Lake in the San Gabriel’s near Los Angeles that many horror fans like to claim as their own. Lake Placid is home to a killer crocodile and movies like Eden Lake, Zombie Lake, Rogue, What Lies Beneath, Lake Dead and of course Sleepaway Camp will make you want to go out and purchase a life vest and/or take some self-defense classes. Deliverance and The Host are set on rivers and Ghost Ship is on the ocean, but we won’t hold it against them.
Cabins & Hotels
Cabin Fever, The Shining, Hostel, and Vacancy are just a few of the great films set in secluded vacation spots.Of more recent fame, Lars Von Teir’s Antichrist took the cabin in “Eden” to a whole new level of crazy. No one can of course touch the masterpiece Evil Dead, where incantations read in the basement of the cabin wake up some flesh eating demons that no one forgets.
The Woods
The Blair Witch Project, Wrong Turn, Sleepy Hallow, Dreamcatcher, Shrooms all take us on a journey along streams, mossy banks and haunting willows that creep the living daylights out of you. Taking it to the jungles, The Ruins and The Island of Dr Morteau receive honorable mentions. Season of The Witch, out on DVD and Blue-ray June 28th crosses over into the supernatural into perilous terrain that makes way for a terrifying and powerful force that determines the fate of the world.
This could be why the canny Joss Whedon wrote the forthcoming thriller The Cabin in the Woods. No fool he.
Your House
Scream, Paranormal Activity, The Amityville Horror, The Grudge, The Others, The Haunting in Connecticut and The Last House on the Left are just a few of the films that really take it to the next level and bring the horror and gore way past your comfort zone. Funny Games could easily fit into the Cabin category but it still hits way too close to home. And grandpa’s house most certainly counts for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Hills get a runner up location nod due to films like The Hills Have Eyes and the 1959 B Movie Classic, House on Haunted Hill. And sure Silent Hill even though we know it doesn’t really count.
[[[Page by Paige]]] By Laura Lee Gulledge 192 Pages, Amulet Books, $16.95
Thankfully there are a growing number of graphic novels for young adults about subjects way beyond fantasy, science fiction, and superheroics. A new generation of creators are sharing their visions or lives (or both) with us and everyone benefits. The latest such offering is Page by Paige, produced by scenic painter Laura Lee Gulledge. Paige is a stand-in for Laura, whose family has relocated from Virginia to New York and being the new teen in high school is a rough experience. There’s the awkwardness of coming in during the school year coupled with navigating the courses, the hallways and the cliques. Fortunately for Paige, she is accompanied by her sketchbook and in private, she pours out her fears, anxieties, and hopes. She finally meets someone who is drawn to Paige, noticing the newcomer is reading an issue of Locas. Jules befriends Paige and introduces her to brother Longo and their friend Gabe. Suddenly, Paige has a circle of friends.
As Paige gets to know them, she creeps towards revealing her true self, that of a budding artist. Watching her crawl from her cocoon to become a beautiful red-headed butterfly is a joy. Better yet, once her friends see how true talents, they become her accomplices in beautifying their surroundings through Paige’s art, which literally leaps off the page.
The book is a lovely mix of Paige’s escapades and her sketchbook, providing insight and commentary into the first months of her new life in the big city. There’s absolutely nothing larger than life, but the canvass is a large one. There’s friendship, some romance, studying in the city’s great art museums, relating to one’s parents, and expressing one’s self artistically. Page by page, ahem, we are treated to inventive layouts and designs as we get insightful glimpses into Paige’s conscious mind.
Gulledge is an honest artist, laying out her fears and dreams out for all of us to examine. She’s very naturalistic in her character designs and makes certain every character has a distinctive voice. Paige herself is loudest, of course, and readers will truly enjoy getting to know this character.
The book may have just been released but it has already been nominated for a deserving spot on the Young Adult Library Services Association’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens list. This comes highly recommend to people seeking something fresh and different.
BookExpo America, the largest industry convention for publishers, booksellers, librarians, and other folks in the industry, runs at the Javits Center in New York this week. It’s often used as a stalking ground for movie and TV studios to snap up properties for adaptations, so one wonders– what books should be adapted into comics form, and by who?
There have been a number of interesting translations over the years. The biggest success story of the past few years have included Darwyn Cooke’s adaptations of Richard Stark’s [[[The Hunter]]] and [[[The Outfit]]] and Marvel’s adaptations of Stephen King’s [[[The Dark Tower]]] by Peter David and Jae Lee, but there have been many others, from the recent adaptations of Ayn Rand’s [[[Anthem]]], Marvel’s [[[Wizard of Oz]]] and [[[Ender’s Game]]], Dynamite’s adaptations of Robert Jordan’s [[[The Wheel Of Time]]], BOOM!’s [[[Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep]]], longevity champion [[[Conan The Barbarian]]] which has been adapted and extended for over forty years, and reaching all the way back to [[[Classics Illustrated]]], which was your parents’ version of Cliffs Notes and Sesame Street.
More tantalizing are the versions that haven’t been made yet. Phil Foglio and Matt Howarth did their own version of the introduction to Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s [[[Good Omens]]], and Phil had already adapted the first book of [[[Myth Adventures]]] by Robert Asprin. Now we have Kevin Colden ([[[Fishtown]]]) showing his proof-of-concept for his version of Anthony Burgess’s [[[A Clockwork Orange]]]. Click through to see the first few pages.
What adaptations would you like to see? And by who? [[[American Psycho]]] by Bill Sienkiewicz, or maybe Howard Chaykin? [[[Catcher In The Rye]]] by Dean Haspiel or Evan Dorkin? [[[The Great Gatsby]]] by P. Craig Russell? John Ostrander writing [[[The Thin Man]]], or Mike W. Barr writing [[[Ellery Queen]]]? Personally, I’d love to see Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely take a crack at [[[Brave New World]]]…
The Nebula Awards® are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America to honor the best in science fiction and fantasy. The awards were announced at the Nebula Awards® Banquet held at the Washington Hilton Hotel last night.
Winning Novel: [[[Blackout/All Clear]]] by Connie Willis (Spectra)
Also Nominated: [[[The Native Star]]] by M.K. Hobson (Spectra) [[[The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms]]] by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US) [[[Shades of Milk and Honey]]] by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) [[[Echo]]] by Jack McDevitt (Ace) [[[Who Fears Death]]] by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Winning Novella: “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window” by Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’10)
Also Nominated: [[[The Alchemist]]] by Paolo Bacigalupi (Audible; Subterranean)
“Iron Shoes” by J. Kathleen Cheney (Alembical 2) [[[The Lifecycle of Software Objects]]] by Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
“The Sultan of the Clouds” by Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 9/10)
“Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance” by Paul Park (F&SF 1-2/10)
Winning Novelette: “That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made” by Eric James Stone (Analog 9/10)
Also Nominated:
“Map of Seventeen” by Christopher Barzak (The Beastly Bride)
“The Jaguar House by in Shadow” by Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 7/10)
“The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara” by Christopher Kastensmidt (Realms of Fantasy 4/10)
“Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 12/10)
“Pishaach” by Shweta Narayan (The Beastly Bride)
“Stone Wall Truth” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Asimov’s 2/10)
Winning Short Story (tie): “Ponies” by Kij Johnson (Tor.com 1/17/10) and “How Interesting: A Tiny Man” by Harlan Ellison (Realms of Fantasy 2/10)
Also Nominated:
“Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed 8/10)
“I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno” by Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed 6/10)
“The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar (Apex 11/1/10)
“Ghosts of New York” by Jennifer Pelland (Dark Faith)
“Conditional Love” by Felicity Shoulders (Asimov’s 1/10)
Also Nominated: [[[Despicable Me]]]
Doctor Who: “Vincent and the Doctor” [[[How to Train Your Dragon]]]
[[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]]
[[[Toy Story 3]]]
Andre Norton Award: [[[I Shall Wear Midnight]]] by Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; Harper)
Also Nominated: [[[Ship Breaker]]] by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown) [[[White Cat]]] by Holly Black (McElderry) [[[Mockingjay]]] by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press; Scholastic UK) [[[Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword]]] by Barry Deutsch (Amulet) [[[The Boy from Ilysies]]] by Pearl North (Tor Teen) [[[ A Conspiracy of Kings]]] by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow) [[[Behemoth]]] by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
While there were three scheduled acts of THE CASE OF THE BLOODY PULP throughout the weekend, there was also a rousing impromptu fight scene amongst the principals on Saturday. Following that, new characters joined old and the story continued….
THE CASE OF THE BLOODY PULP, ACT TWO
CAST- Merlin Montgomery-Tommy Hancock Benita Isadore Magready (Bim)-Shannon O’Cain Newt the Newsboy-Alex Hancock Simon Sanders, The Rogue-Brian Coltharp Nikola Deveraux-Tanya McClure August-Bo Elrod Captain Mordechai Maelstrom-David Jones Buster-Lucas Smith Penny Preston-Megan Smith Little Sister-Mackenzie Haugh
ACT TWO
(Scene opens with Capt’n Mordechai, Buster, Penny Preston, and Little Sister entering the area.)
LITTLE SISTER, NIKOLA DEVERAUX, PENNY PRESTON CAPT’N MORDECHAI, BUSTER BLOODY PULP, ACT TWO
PENNY-Now, really Captain.It’s not necessary to come all this way with us.You’ve done a fine job in helping me, but surely you have other things to do.
CAPT’N-Miss Preston, I told ya once, I told ya twenty.Ya hired me and my mate Buster here out of a bar in the South Pacific-
BUSTER-Nope, Capt’n Mordechai, you were in the bar, I was workin’ on the plane engine.I’m always workin’ on the plane engine.
CAPT’N-Easy, Buster…Ya hired us to help ya get that scrap of sack ya got there…
PENNY-Parchment, Captain.A piece of ancient parchment.The last piece I needed to wrap up this story for my newspaper.
LITTLE SISTER-Parch…parchme….I thought it was paper, Penny!
PENNY- Quiet, little sister.It is paper.Old paper.
LITTLE SISTER-That old people wrote on!
BUSTER-Not old people.Ancient people, people who lived a long time ago..
LITTLE SISTER-Don’t know about that…but its old people, old like you!
BUSTER-Why you- I’m not all old, I’m barely sixteen- I’m
CAPT’N-WINGFLAPS AND TAILWINDS, WILL YOU BE QUIET?!? (Calms down) As I was sayin’, Miss Preston, you hired us and Capt’n Mordechai Maelstrom sees out any job he takes to the very tip top end.From the time my Gone Gander leaves the ground till the last time it lands.
LITTLE SISTER, PENNY PRESTON, BUSTER, ROGUE CAPT’N MORDECHAI BLOODY PULP, ACT TWO
PENNY-Yes, I see.Well that would have been the return trip to New York so I could secure this parchment with the Museum, then finished my feature article.But when we got that phone call, mysterious as it was, telling us the JC Givens ‘Bloody Pulp’ was on display at this convention, we just had to come here.This could be the end of the greatest mystery of the 20th Century.
CAPT’N-Aye. Or the end of somethin’ else.
PENNY-Such as….
BUSTER-He gets like this every time something disrupts a flight plan.He means our lives.
CAPT’N- Goin’ off course never means good for nobody.‘Specially when yer dealin’ with….things that go bump in the night.
LITTLE SISTER-Monsters?We’re dealin’ with monsters??
PENNY-No, no Little Sister, Capt’n Mordechai’s just being melodramatic.It happens when people get ‘ancient’.
CAPT’N-Say what ya will, lady.It’s been said before and worse.But I’ve seen scrawl like that on that there scrap you have.And it’s never meant nothin’ but agony and despair.
PENNY-I don’t rightly know that it means anything more than some long dead person’s shopping list, Captain.We might find out more if we knew who’d called us to come here.
FIGHT SCENE BETWEEN CAPT’N AND ROGUE BLOODY PULP, ACT TWO
ROGUE-(He must walk up behind Mordechai) That, my dear intrepid lady reporter, would be me.
PENNY-You?And who might you be?
ROGUE- I am Si-
(Mordechai turns and sees the ROGUE and interrupts)
CAPT’N-Why I’ll tell ya who ya have here, Miss Preston.The triple crossingest, back stabbin, no good for nothing wastrel the world has ever produced….
ROGUE-Now Mordechai-
CAPT’N-Been a long time, Rogue.
ROGUE-Yes…indeed.What, three years?
CAPT’N-Four.See, I kept real good count because I spent a year of that lost in the Himalayas eatin’ what friends I made brung me.And you said it would be in and out, save the world you said.
ROGUE-Why yes, I probably did say that.You know me, though, Mordechai, I am my whole world. So save the world, line my pockets, you say tomato and I say-
CAPT’N-Your prayers.(fight between them that stops when-)
PENNY-STOP!We do not have time for this! I have a deadline to meet!
NIKOLA-(Appears suddenly) She is right.There is no time for this!And my deadline, that set by my dearly departed parents, is long past!
BUSTER-Well I’ll be gassed and gone!Who is THAT?
NIKOLA-I am the reason you are here, handsome boy.
NIKOLA THREATENS LITTLE SISTER BLOODY PULP, ACT TWO
PENNY- But I thought that this man here-
CAPT’N-Another lie from the lips of The Rogue.‘Magine that.
ROGUE-Again, Capt’n, what you call a lie, I saw as an opportunity.
NIKOLA-A missed one, Simon Sanders.One that, were I not so distracted with other things, would cost you your life.
ROGUE-Thank goodness for your short attention span then.
PENNY-All right, I really don’t understand any of this.All I know is I was told the Bloody Pulp would be here and I would get to look at it to add to my story.
NIKOLA-Oh, indeed you shall see it, Miss Preston.And if you’re foolish like others here, it may be the last thing you see…or you could live in the new world…one that will be born from ashes and fire when I am done!That will be a story to tell!
ROGUE-Too bad that little news hawk of a kid snatched it and ran off.You and your trained retriever have looked a whole day for him.And still no bloody pulp.
NIKOLA-Yes, a whole day we looked! And in the last few minutes, Mr. Sanders, we FOUND! August, come!
(August comes in, dragging Newt by the arm, the pulp in one hand along with Newt’s newspaper bag)
AUGUST-Yes, Madam! I am here and so is this worthless criminal!
NEWT-LEGGO A’ ME…..LEGGO!
AUGUST-(throws him to the floor) Gladly!He hid from me, Madam and even when I found him, he fought.He hit me with this bag, but it was not filled with papers, but with BRICKS! But it was not enough! I still caught him!
NIKOLA THREATENS PENNY PRESTON BLOODY PULP, ACT TWO
NIKOLA-Yes, August, you did.Of course hitting you with bricks in the head would not harm you.There is nothing there to harm!But now, (she takes the pulp) I have one half of the two piece puzzle.And you, Miss Preston…you have the other half.And you will give it to me.
CAPT’N-Heck and high water she will!You just hold onto that scrap, Miss!Keep it close!
ROGUE-As much as I hate to, I have to agree.I know a bit of what Nikola thinks that parchment you have will do when put with that pulp magazine! And none of it’s good.
NIKOLA-Silence!What do either of you fools know?Nothing!No one knows what is good for this world but me!My parents, the genius Dr. Nikolai and the beautiful adventuress Lady Devereaux, they knew that the world needs to be bathed in flame and death so it can live as it truly should be!And they taught me this, showed me, did things to me to make me the only person able to lead this new world!
BUSTER-Capt’n, I hear the airways callin’ us….
PENNY-I really don’t understand any of this, but it smells enough to tell me that there’s no way you’re getting this parchment!
NIKOLA-Oh, but there is one way….
(NIKOLA snatches LITTLE SISTER and holds one of her sharpened nails, knife, etc to her neck)
LITTLE SISTER-Help! Let me go! Penny, help!
NIKOLA-Yes, darling Penny.Help her, won’t you?If you don’t….I will.
CAPT’N-Miss Preston, don’t!
ROGUE-Back up, Mordechai (gun drawn)
NIKOLA GAINS UPPER HAND BLOODY PULP, ACT TWO
CAPT’N-You lily livered-
ROGUE-Again, perception….I’m just tying up with the winning side.
NIKOLA-Ilk of your sort always drifts to the top.
ROGUE-We’ll discuss how high later.
BUSTER-Whatta we do?
PENNY-I…I don’t have any choice.She’s…got my sister.Here.(hands her the parchment)
NIKOLA-Yes! (As she takes the parchment in one hand and the pulp in the other, Capt’n and Buster both get ready to charge, but Rogue and August step forward, guns ready. Nikola shoves LITTLE SISTER away and grabs Penny and holds her hostage).Now I have everything I need!
CAPTN-What in the flyin-Let go of ‘er, you got that bit of rag you wanted.
NIKOLA:Many believe that the parchment is a key, something to use to translate the words in the stanza…but it’s more than that! (She opens the pulp and lays the parchment on the page)It is a lens, a mystical window that when laid on the stanza, on the incantation makes it clear as day to read! Yes, even now the lines and symbols are twisting into words! I can read it!
(Merlin and Bim bust in)
BIM-We’re too late, Merlin!
MERLIN-Nikola, stop!You can’t know the whole story!If you did, you wouldn’t-
NIKOLA-Oh but I do know, Merlin!And I will!I will release the greatest evil known to the universe and lead it around like a whimpering hound on a leash!(Turns gun on Penny) Read it, girl!
PENNY-No!Please, no!
NIKOLA-Read it! You will enjoy it so much more than dying!
PENNY: “Death and hatred,take you life!
Murder and sin, become flesh and bone!
Walk this earth and spread your strife!
‘less you are laid low by man crafted stone!
(Lots of hubbub, smoke, whatever can be managed) Penny collapses and rises up again as SHEVARA
LIL SISTER-PENNY!!
PENNY PRESTON, POSSESSED BLOODY PULP, ACT TWO
SHEVARA-WHO TEARS AWAY THE MYSTICAL CHAINS THAT BOUND SHE WHOM ALL FEAR?WHO DARES RISK THE ENTIRE WORLD TO SUMMON SHEVARA?
NIKOLA-That will be I, Nikola Devereaux…new Mistress of this World and your Keeper!
SHEVARA- (laughs evilly)SHE WHOM ALL FEAR KNOWS NO KEEPER! AND THIS WORLD WILL BE NOTHING BUT A MORSEL AND YOU ALL CRUMBS!
NIKOLA-What?No, I command you to-
SHEVARA-YOU COMMAND NO ONE! (Waves her hand and the whole cast freezes)THIS IS MY STAGE NOW! (she wavers) BUT…YEARS DETAINED…HAVE WEAKENED ME….AND THERE IS NOT ENOUGH HATRED AND HORROR HERE…I MUST GO FEED….BUT SHALL RETURN TO CLAIM ALL THAT IS MINE..STARTING HERE! (Puff of smoke and she’s gone)
BUSTER-What just happened??
NIKOLA-(drops to her knees) I…Mother…Father… I have failed…
MERLIN-I think humanity just all ended up on the same side.
The ABC Family TV series The Nine Lives of Chloe King has a website up. We’ll be having an interview with the author o the original book series, as soon as we can figure out what to call her.
Happy birthday to Ty Templeton! Even at your advanced age, there are still pretty girls lusting after you… don’t worry, I won’t tell the wife. (Yours, I mean. Mine is one of the lusters.)
And finally: New Video and Photos of Filming of The Amazing Spider-Man in New York. I gotta tell you, the costume changes are still bugging me much more than usual and I don’t know why– unless it’s because we’ve already seen that the original costume worked fine on screen. And golden slippers? Really?
Some eagerly anticipated Blu-ray debuts are making noise by hosting limited screenings in theaters. First up is the Coen Brothers’ now classic The Big Lebowski. The DVD comes out on August 16 and that day there will be a screening at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. that will include a special Q & A with Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore and T Bone Burnett, as well as a screening of the film and other festivities. Not only will the Blu-ray be out that day but it also is the debut of Jeff Bridges’ self-titled album.
