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New Fantastic Four 2 pics





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Pop Culture Roundup April 3, 2007

From Bedazzled: "Star Trek" outtakes and bloopers.

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Datajunkie presents some sci-fi pulp art by Alex Schomburg.

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Here's the box art for Warner Home Video's upcoming collection of remastered Popeye shorts out July 31 on four DVDs. We'll have more details as they surface.

Lost preview: upcoming episodes

Highlight the hidden text for slightly spoilerish teasers for the April 11 and April 18 episodes:

JACK'S REUNION WITH HIS FELLOW SURVIVORS IS LESS THAN JOYOUS WHEN
HE IS ACCOMPANIED BY ONE OF "THE OTHERS," AND CLAIRE IS STRICKEN
BY A MYSTERIOUS, LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS, ON ABC'S "LOST"

"One of Us" - Jack's joyous reunion with his fellow survivors is cut short when they realize that accompanying him is one of "The Others," and Claire is stricken by a mysterious, life-threatening illness, on "Lost," WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, Dominic Monaghan as Charlie and Terry O'Quinn as Locke.

Guest starring are Robin Weigert as Rachel, William Mapother as Ethan Rom, Brett Cullen as Goodwin, Andrew Divoff as Mikhail, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Joah Buley as other dude and Tyrone Howard as airport guard.

"One of Us" was written by Carlton Cuse & Drew Goddard and directed by Jack Bender.

CHARLIE QUESTIONS WHETHER DESMOND HAS HAD ANOTHER "FLASH"
FORESHADOWING HIS DEATH WHEN COAXED INTO JOINING A TREK
ACROSS THE JUNGLE, AND JEALOUSY MOTIVATES KATE TO TURN TO
AN UNSUSPECTING SAWYER, ON ABC'S "LOST"

"Catch-22" - Desmond coaxes Charlie, Hurley and Jin on a trek across the jungle after experiencing one of his future-prophesizing "flashes" -- but is he purposely placing Charlie's life in harm's way? Meanwhile, Kate turns to an unwitting Sawyer after seeing Jack alone with Juliet, on "Lost," WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, Dominic Monaghan as Charlie and Terry O'Quinn as Locke.

Guest starring are Sonia Walger as Penny Widmore, Jack Maxwell as Derek, Joanna Bool as Ruth, Andrew Connolly as Brother Campbell, Andrew Trask as older monk and Marsha Thomason as Naomi.

"Catch-22" was written by Jeff Pinkner & Brian K. Vaughan and directed by Stephen Williams.




See the Best "Lost" Sites on the Web.

CD new releases April 3, 2007

New CD releases April 3, 2007

Traffic and Weather by Fountains of Wayne

Birthday by The Idle Race

Idle Race/Time Is by The Idle Race

Open Your Box (Remixes) by Yoko Ono

Vampires Cowboys Spacemen & Spooks: Very Best of Joe Meek's instrumentals by Joe Meek

Dylanesque by Bryan Ferry

Seventh Sojourn by Moody Blues

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by Moody Blues

The Honeydrippers by Robert Plant & The Honeydrippers

Principle of Moments by Robert Plant

Now & Zen by Robert Plant

Dreamland by Robert Plant

Complete Motown Singles V.1: 1959-1961 by Various Artists

My Tennessee Mountain Home by Dolly Parton

Jolene by Dolly Parton

Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton

Future Is Unwritten by Joe Strummer

Back Porch Bluegrass/Pickin' and Fiddlin' by The Dillards

Time & Time Again by Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, and Joe Lovano

Momento by Bebel Gilberto

Mastercuts by James Brown

Vol. 1-Champion Records Story by Champion Records Story

More upcoming CDs

DVD new releases April 3, 2007

The Good Shepherd (Widescreen Edition)

Twin Peaks - The Second Season

Charlotte's Web (Widescreen Edition)

Entourage - Season Three, Part 1

Volver

Law & Order - The Fifth Season (1994-95 Season)

Roseanne - Season 7

Bedazzled

Lost Room (Mini-series Full Frame)

She-Ra - Princess of Power - Season One, Vol. 2

Godzilla Raids Again

Mothra Vs Godzilla

The Brady Bunch - The Complete Series (Seasons 1-5 + Shag Carpet Cover)

The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, Volume 5 - Ant Aardvark

Gene Autry Collection: Home in Wyomin

Betty Boop Collector's Edition with Free Betty Boop Key Chain

More upcoming DVDs

Pop Artifact! Popeye wind-up guitar

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Pop Culture Roundup April 2, 2007

TIP! was off last week and missed the news about the unfortunate passing of Marshall Rogers, one of the all-time best Batman artists. Fred Hembeck has a nice tribute and there's an obituary here. Rogers also did wonderful work on Doctor Strange and the Silver Surfer. He'll be greatly missed.



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Here's cover art for the extended version of the first Fantastic Four film. The 2-DVD set also includes a bio film about FF co-creator Jack Kirby. You can pre-order it now for $20.19 at Amazon.



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The Onion A.V. Club interviews EC Comics great Al Feldstein.

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The third season of "Doctor Who" has started in Britain and is a ratings hit.

It saw off competition from ITV 1's Harry Potter film, which attracted an average of 4.7 million viewers.

The new season will see the Doctor meeting Shakespeare and the Daleks.


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Lost clues: "Exposé" Ep. 14, Season 3

Synopsis:

In the present, both Nikki and Paulo keel over. Doing some detective work, Hurley, Sawyer and Charlie determine the couple has evidently killed one another over a diamond heist gone wrong.

In flashbacks, we see how Nikki, an actress, and Paulo, a chef, poison an elderly TV producer and steal his diamonds. They're on their way from Australia to Los Angeles with the loot when their plane crashes.

On the island, Paolo finds the luggage containing the diamonds, but doesn't tell Nikki. He fears she's just after the money and will dump him if she has it. Without the diamonds, he has a chance at a future with her.

Nikki, however, learns the truth, and flings a poison spider at Paulo. The critter, Nikki learned from the later Dr. Artz, has a bite that paralyzes its victims. In humans, the bite paralyzes for up to eight hours and a victim's heartbeat become virtually undetectable. Something Nikki forgot thought is that, once released, the female spider attracts equally poisonous males from miles around. So, moments after Paulo gets bitten she does, too.

The couple meets an ironic end, buried alive but seemingly dead by their fellow crash survivors.



Clues, observations, speculation:

* We see that Nikki and Paulo discovered the Pearl station before anyone else did, but kept the information to themselves.

* Hiding the diamonds in the bathroom of the Pearl station, Paulo overhears Ben and Juliet spying on Jack. Ben reveals how he intends to convince Jack to operate on him. This sets into motion to whole process of luring Michael to go in search of Walt and the eventual captivity of Sawyer, Kate and Jack.

* Soon after the crash, we see Ethan Rom come up to Nikki and Paulo pretending to be a fellow passenger offering them help.

* Paulo stole a walkie talkie from the Pearl and Sawyer and the rest discovered it. Will this help them eavesdrop on the Others?

* In "The Man from Tallahassee" Locke is seen watching "Exposé," the show Nikki guested on.



* Sun learns it was Charlie, not one the Others, who attempted to abduct her. The whole thing was rigged as a diversion for Sawyer to steal the guns from the Hatch.