Pop Culture Roundup Jan. 23, 2007

The Fantagraphics Book Store and Gallery in Seattle will launch an art exhibit celebrating 25 years of Los Bros Hernandez' "Love and Rockets" comics on Feb. 10.

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Jart in My Head shares an awesome poster from Marx Toys depicting the manufacturer's range of Johnny West toys from the 1970s.

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Universal Pictures wants Clive Owen to star in a series of films based on Raymond Chandler's hardboiled Philip Marlowe detective novels.

The project is in a nascent stage -- they are courting writers and filmmakers -- and they haven't decided which title to adapt.

But they sparked to having Owen narrate the dramas in Chandler's testosterone-laced prose, something Owen did well in "Sin City." The plan is to keep the noir spirit of the Chandler books, and keep the mysteries set in the 1940s in Los Angeles, with Marlowe continuing to be the hard-drinking, wisecracking gumshoe.

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