Pop Culture Roundup May 8, 2007
An expanded version of Paul McCartney's upcoming album, Memory Almost Full, features three extra tracks.
...the three tracks are called "Why So Blue," "222," and "In Private."
You can pre-order by the expanded and regular editions of the album now from Amazon.
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You can see a new, 15-minute Spinal Tap film here.
Featuring original cast members Christopher Guest, Michael
McKean and Harry Shearer, the short film looks at the fake band's preparations for the very much real Live Earth festival coming up in July.
Info:
Live Earth is designed to trigger a mass movement to combat our climate crisis.
On 7/7/07, Live Earth will be a defining musical event with more than 100 headliners performing live on all 7 continents and being broadcast globally through television, radio, web, wireless and other media platforms. These music artists will inspire an audience of more than 2 billion people worldwide to make meaningful and lasting changes in their lives to turn the tide on global warming.
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Via Bedazzled: A gallery of teen-exploitation paperback covers.
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Buffy and Angel magazine is shutting down. The final issue is cover-dated May and will be on newstands this month.
Best Buffy Sites.
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See a new trailer for "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer."
Best Fantastic Four Sites.
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Dial B for Burbank presents lobby cards from old Shadow movie serials.
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The Sci Fi Channel plans a programming block of anime TV series.
The...new anime block will get off to a rousing start on Monday June 11th at 11 p.m. (ET, PT) with the U.S. broadcast premier of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society movie (see "Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society"), which won't be available on DVD until July 3rd.
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Exerpted from an upcoming issue of his great Alter Ego mag, Roy Thomas talks about adapting the first Star Wars movie to comics.
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Doctor Who fans may dig "Dalek I Loved You," a memoir of growing up in Britain during the Tom Baker years.
Dalek I Loved You is an irresistible memoir of a childhood lived through the 1970s and 1980s. Writing with wit and humour, Griffiths takes us on a poignant and often hilarious journey through his childhood, where he first encountered Dr Who, into his teens where he is packed off to boarding school and discovers girls and David Bowie, onto his first formative years of employment at some hip but now defunct music magazines and into life as a father and husband who is now writing about his childhood passion for a living.
Best Doctor Who sites.
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Canada's Globe and Mail checks in with Beatles producer George Martin.
Once Martin had the Beatles under his wing, the group's manager, Brian Epstein, began to send a bevy of Liverpudlians to Martin. He duly produced many chart-breakers for the likes of Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, among others. In fact, in Britain in 1963, for 34 weeks the No. 1 hit was a song produced by Martin. "It had never been done before," he said with undiminished pride, "and it never will be done again."
Best Beatles sites.
...the three tracks are called "Why So Blue," "222," and "In Private."
You can pre-order by the expanded and regular editions of the album now from Amazon.
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You can see a new, 15-minute Spinal Tap film here.
Featuring original cast members Christopher Guest, Michael
McKean and Harry Shearer, the short film looks at the fake band's preparations for the very much real Live Earth festival coming up in July.
Info:
Live Earth is designed to trigger a mass movement to combat our climate crisis.
On 7/7/07, Live Earth will be a defining musical event with more than 100 headliners performing live on all 7 continents and being broadcast globally through television, radio, web, wireless and other media platforms. These music artists will inspire an audience of more than 2 billion people worldwide to make meaningful and lasting changes in their lives to turn the tide on global warming.
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Via Bedazzled: A gallery of teen-exploitation paperback covers.
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Buffy and Angel magazine is shutting down. The final issue is cover-dated May and will be on newstands this month.
Best Buffy Sites.
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See a new trailer for "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer."
Best Fantastic Four Sites.
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Dial B for Burbank presents lobby cards from old Shadow movie serials.
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The Sci Fi Channel plans a programming block of anime TV series.
The...new anime block will get off to a rousing start on Monday June 11th at 11 p.m. (ET, PT) with the U.S. broadcast premier of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society movie (see "Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society"), which won't be available on DVD until July 3rd.
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Exerpted from an upcoming issue of his great Alter Ego mag, Roy Thomas talks about adapting the first Star Wars movie to comics.
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Doctor Who fans may dig "Dalek I Loved You," a memoir of growing up in Britain during the Tom Baker years.
Dalek I Loved You is an irresistible memoir of a childhood lived through the 1970s and 1980s. Writing with wit and humour, Griffiths takes us on a poignant and often hilarious journey through his childhood, where he first encountered Dr Who, into his teens where he is packed off to boarding school and discovers girls and David Bowie, onto his first formative years of employment at some hip but now defunct music magazines and into life as a father and husband who is now writing about his childhood passion for a living.
Best Doctor Who sites.
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Canada's Globe and Mail checks in with Beatles producer George Martin.
Once Martin had the Beatles under his wing, the group's manager, Brian Epstein, began to send a bevy of Liverpudlians to Martin. He duly produced many chart-breakers for the likes of Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, among others. In fact, in Britain in 1963, for 34 weeks the No. 1 hit was a song produced by Martin. "It had never been done before," he said with undiminished pride, "and it never will be done again."
Best Beatles sites.
Lost season finale details
Highlight the hidden text for spoilers:
JACK AND HIS FELLOW SURVIVORS BEGIN THEIR EFFORTS TO MAKE CONTACT
WITH NAOMI'S RESCUE SHIP, ON THE SEASON FINALE OF ABC'S "LOST"
"Through the Looking Glass" - Jack and the castaways begin their efforts to make contact with Naomi's rescue ship, on the season finale of "Lost," WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 (9:00-11:00 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 M.C. Gainey as Mr. Friendly/Tom, Tania Raymonde as Alex, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Blake Bashoff as Karl, Andrew Divoff as Mikhail, Ariston Greene as Jason, Sonya Walger as Penny, Mira Furlan as Rousseau, Brian Goodman as Pryce, Marsha Thomason as Naomi,
L. Scott Caldwell as Rose, Sam Anderson as Bernard, Lana Parilla as Greta, Tracy Middendorf as Bonnie, James Lesure as Dr. Hamill, Nigel Gibbs as funeral director, Loreni Delgado as pharmacist, Larry Clarke as customer and Kate Connor as doctor.
"Through the Looking Glass" was written by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof and directed by Jack Bender.
See the Best "Lost" Sites on the Web.
JACK AND HIS FELLOW SURVIVORS BEGIN THEIR EFFORTS TO MAKE CONTACT
WITH NAOMI'S RESCUE SHIP, ON THE SEASON FINALE OF ABC'S "LOST"
"Through the Looking Glass" - Jack and the castaways begin their efforts to make contact with Naomi's rescue ship, on the season finale of "Lost," WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 (9:00-11:00 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 M.C. Gainey as Mr. Friendly/Tom, Tania Raymonde as Alex, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Blake Bashoff as Karl, Andrew Divoff as Mikhail, Ariston Greene as Jason, Sonya Walger as Penny, Mira Furlan as Rousseau, Brian Goodman as Pryce, Marsha Thomason as Naomi,
L. Scott Caldwell as Rose, Sam Anderson as Bernard, Lana Parilla as Greta, Tracy Middendorf as Bonnie, James Lesure as Dr. Hamill, Nigel Gibbs as funeral director, Loreni Delgado as pharmacist, Larry Clarke as customer and Kate Connor as doctor.
"Through the Looking Glass" was written by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof and directed by Jack Bender.
See the Best "Lost" Sites on the Web.
DVD new releases May 8, 2007
The 4400 - The Complete Third Season
The Waltons - The Complete Fifth Season
Everybody Loves Raymond - The Complete Eighth Season
To Catch a Thief (Special Collector's Edition)
That Thing You Do! - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
The Caine Mutiny (Collector's Edition)
CD new releases May 8, 2007
CD new release May 8, 2007
Keren Ann by Keren Ann
PROG by The Bad Plus
We All Love Ennio Morricone by Various Artists
Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola by Joe Lovano & Hank Jones
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions by James Blood Ulmer
Live 1969 by Simon & Garfunkel
Volta by Björk
New Moon by Elliott Smith
Com Lag (2Plus2IsFive) by Radiohead
Send Away the Tigers by Manic Street Preachers
Everybody by The Sea and Cake
Definitive Soul: The Coasters by The Coasters
The Pomus & Shuman Story: Double Trouble 1956-1967 by Various Artists
Code: Selfish by The Fall
Shift-Work by The Fall
Extricate by The Fall
British War Broadcasting 1938-1945 by British War Broadcasting 1938-1945
More Upcoming CD Releases
Keren Ann by Keren Ann
PROG by The Bad Plus
We All Love Ennio Morricone by Various Artists
Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola by Joe Lovano & Hank Jones
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions by James Blood Ulmer
Live 1969 by Simon & Garfunkel
Volta by Björk
New Moon by Elliott Smith
Com Lag (2Plus2IsFive) by Radiohead
Send Away the Tigers by Manic Street Preachers
Everybody by The Sea and Cake
Definitive Soul: The Coasters by The Coasters
The Pomus & Shuman Story: Double Trouble 1956-1967 by Various Artists
Code: Selfish by The Fall
Shift-Work by The Fall
Extricate by The Fall
British War Broadcasting 1938-1945 by British War Broadcasting 1938-1945
More Upcoming CD Releases
Pop Culture Roundup May 7, 2007
ABC has announced its plans from wrapping up "Lost."
The Emmy-winning adventure series will run for 48 more episodes over three seasons. Each season will consist of 16 episodes, which will air uninterrupted.
"Lost" executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who have been vocal about setting up an endgame for the show, have signed on to stay for the remainder of the series' run.
A typical season is 24 episodes, so this news really means ABC has elected to buy only two more seasons. They're just making it look like three.
Originally, five full seasons of the show were planned.
This may not be entirely bad news for viewers, though. Lately, the show has been great. But the first part of this season seemed a bit listless--lots of episode where not much happened. Maybe giving the creators a tight deadline to finish up will help keep the quality on track.
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Dial B for Burbank continues his detailed look at the Shadow art of Jim Steranko. We have our own gallery of Steranko Shadow paperback art here.
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Datajunkie shares a nice batch of painted Gold Key Comics covers from "Lost in Space," "M.A.R.S. Patrol," "Tarzan of the Apes" and more.
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Variety focuses on the 30th anniversary of "Star Wars" with a look at early action figures inspired by the movie.
The Emmy-winning adventure series will run for 48 more episodes over three seasons. Each season will consist of 16 episodes, which will air uninterrupted.
"Lost" executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who have been vocal about setting up an endgame for the show, have signed on to stay for the remainder of the series' run.
A typical season is 24 episodes, so this news really means ABC has elected to buy only two more seasons. They're just making it look like three.
Originally, five full seasons of the show were planned.
This may not be entirely bad news for viewers, though. Lately, the show has been great. But the first part of this season seemed a bit listless--lots of episode where not much happened. Maybe giving the creators a tight deadline to finish up will help keep the quality on track.
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Dial B for Burbank continues his detailed look at the Shadow art of Jim Steranko. We have our own gallery of Steranko Shadow paperback art here.
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Datajunkie shares a nice batch of painted Gold Key Comics covers from "Lost in Space," "M.A.R.S. Patrol," "Tarzan of the Apes" and more.
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Variety focuses on the 30th anniversary of "Star Wars" with a look at early action figures inspired by the movie.
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