Pop links: Popeye Halloween, Faux Zeppelin, more Web of Horror

How about a Halloween cartoon short with Popeye?

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Led Zeppelin will tour with a replacement for founding singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones has confirmed.

...The bassist added that he and his bandmates were not after a Plant soundalike.


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Golden Age Comic Book Stories
presents more tales from the 1970s Web of Horror series, featuring art by Frank Brunner, Berni Wrightson, Michael Kaluta and others.

Empire mag reveals Star Trek cover, pics

The UK's Empire movie mag has revealed its upcoming cover spotlighting the new Star Trek film. There are a couple of new pics inside as well. Click the link to see them.

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New DVDs, CDs, LPs Oct. 28, 2008

Here's what looks interesting pop culture-wise this week:

DVDs:

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Limited-Edition 2-D and 3-D with Glasses)

The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection

The Donna Reed Show: The Complete First Season
The Flintstones: The Complete Series


Quantum of Solace [SOUNDTRACK]
Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection

CDs

Hank Williams The Unreleased Recordings [BOX SET]

The Partridge Family Bulletin Board

The Gonzo Tapes:The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed


Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock and Roll

Vinyl:


The Clash Live at Shea Stadium


Dream Baby Dream by Bruce Springsteen and Suicide

Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme by Simon & Garfunkel


Axis: Bold as Love by Jimi Hendrix


Are You Experienced? by Jimi Hendrix

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols

Rock 'N' Roll by John Lennon

Halloween Pop! Corridors of Blood movie poster

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Upcoming guest heroes on Batman: Brave and the Bold

The Cartoon Network has released a list of some of the DC superheroes set to appear on the upcoming Batman: Brave and the Bold animated series. Voice actors are listed when available:

Batman/Bruce Wayne: Dietrich Bader
Aquaman: Jon DiMaggio
The Atom
Black Manta
Black Canary
Blue Beetle: Will Friedle
Booster Gold: Thomas Everett Scott
Bronze Tiger
Calendar Man: Jim Piddock
Cavalier: Greg Ellis
Clock King
Deadman
The Demon
Despero
Dr. Fate
Fire
Firestorm
The Flash
Gentleman Ghost
Gorilla Grodd
Green Arrow: James Arnold Taylor
Green Lantern Corp.
Guy Gardener: James Arnold Taylor
Jonah Hex
Huntress
Justice Society of America
Kamandi
Kanjar-Ro
Kite Man
Metamorpho
Ocean Master
Plastic Man: Tom Kenny
Red Tornado: Corey Burton
Skeets: Billy West
Sportsmaster
Adam Strange
Wildcat: R. Lee Ermey
Zebra Man

Halloween Pop! Village of the Damned movie poster

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Batman: Brave and the Bold clip online

The Cartoon Network has posted a clip from its upcoming "Batman: Brave and the Bold" series. Here are some caps from it:

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Pop links: Plastic Man DVD, Doctor Who on location, Joe Meek bio-pic, Disney Halloween special, more horror comics

Mark Evanier hints that the 1979 "Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show," on which he worked, is finally DVD-bound. I have dim recollections of the series, myself. But I know Plastic Man fans ("plastic fans'?) will want to know...

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The BBC reports on "Who Goes There," a new book at looks at all the places in Britain where Doctor Who episodes have been filmed.

[Author Nick] Griffiths got the idea for the book after watching old episodes of Doctor Who starring Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee and noticing the strange qualities of some of the locations.

"There was an old railway station in an episode I was watching and I suddenly thought 'I'd really like to go there, that looks really strange and unusual'," he said.

"I had a quite a lot of fun trying to find the place anyway and when I got there it was fantastic being able to stand in the spot where the Doctor had stood."


You can see some of the locations here.

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The Evening Standard reviews "Telstar" a new bio pic about eccentric British record producer Joe Meek.

Meek was a sonic pioneer who couldn’t play a note, with a loopy belief in spiritualism and the business sense of a plank.

He created the titular hit Telstar but passed on The Beatles, wasted his heart and savings on a dim-bulb singer called Heinz, and killed himself after shooting his landlady in 1967.


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Watch the "Disneyland Hour Halloween Special" from 1977.

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The Horrors of it All presents a Russ Heath-illustrated witch tale.

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents some tales Web of Horror #2, featuring art by Michael Kaluta, Berni Wrightson and others.

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Pop links: Vintage Wrightson, Adams comics

Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents some rare tales from 1969's Web of Horror #1, including artwork by Syd Shores, Berni Wrightson and others.

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Dial B for Blog looks at "Rock God," a story from Creepy #1 with a script by Harlan Ellison and great Neal Adams art.

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Halloween pop! H.P. Lovecraft paperback covers

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Opie and Obama

This is great:

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

Pop links: Dirk Gently on the radio, Hitchcock's ladies, Macca's head located!

Listen to the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently’s Holistic Agency – The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul."

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The New York Times reviews Donald Spoto's third book about Alfred Hitchcock, "Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies."

Other, better Hitchcock aficionados — most notably François Truffaut in his book-length conversation with his fellow auteur — have already paid considerable attention to the most flagrant kinkiness in the Hitchcock canon. No single performance in any of his films has been more heavily analyzed than Kim Novak’s in “Vertigo.” Still, Mr. Spoto has enjoyed extraordinary access to Hitchcock’s players over a long period of time, and he has assembled a cavalcade of chatty firsthand impressions.

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Geppi's Entertainment Museum, a Baltimore showcase for pop culture artifacts from comic books, movies and cartoons, etc., is in a spot of financial trouble.

The museum, founded by Stephen A. Geppi, CEO of Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. in Timonium and publisher of Baltimore Magazine, accrued approximately $622,500 in unpaid rent to the Maryland Stadium Authority as of Oct. 6. The museum also owed more than $77,000 in late fees and unpaid electricity bills that have accumulated since February 2007, according to accounting documents from the authority.

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We can all rest easy now, Paul McCartney's head has been relocated.

The waxwork head of Paul McCartney has been found at Reading train station by a tramp, who has since been rewarded for handing over the bizarre object.

The head belongs to a waxwork of The Beatles star, which was previously on display at the Louis Tussauds Museum in Great Yarmouth, and the owner Joby Carter left it on a train last week.


"Tramp"? Apparently political correctness hasn't quite caught on with the Brits...

Batman: Brave and the Bold postcards

Via Newsarama: here are series or postcard images from the Cartoon Network's press kit for its upcoming Batman cartoon series:

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And here are some wallpaper images from the show's official site:

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The show debuts Nov. 14. And it looks like it'll be fun. Nice to see a lighter take on the Caped Crusader.

Jack Kirby discussion by Mark Evanier

Here's comic book writer/historian Mark Evanier talking about his biography of the great artist Jack Kirby, co-creator of the Fantastic Four, Hulk and many more.

First "Lost" sesion 5 promo!

Hey, lookie here! "Lost" finally returns in January and here's our first peek at what we'll see:

Halloween pop! Village of the Damned paperback cover

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See Hulk vs. Thor animated trailer

Marvel has posted a trailer for it's upcoming, direct-to-DVD "Hulk Vs." movie, which features the green goliath squaring off against various folks, such as, in this clip, Thor.

The movie is out in January.

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Pop links: Who has the head of Paul McCartney?, More and more Paul, Doctor Strange movie, plus Carol Burnett and Boris Karloff

Paul McCartney's head has gone on a magical mystery tour, NPR reports.

A wax head of singer Paul McCartney is on the loose. The mop-topped likeness came from a wax museum at a seaside resort in England. A London auctioneer had taken it — in a cardboard box — to be appraised. And then left the box under a train seat somewhere between London and Reading.

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Speaking of Paul, this DVD, out Nov. 25, sounds like it might be half-decent:

Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1966 / 1970. The DVD is an independent documentary film that reviews the partnership, music and impact of Lennon and McCartney as composers during this hugely creative period.

From the first bars of Eleanor Rigby to the closing Abbey Road song-cycle, this film shows how they barely put a step wrong in making the most joyous music the world had ever witnessed. Drawing on rare footage, classic performances and penetrating revelations from friends of the pair, Beatles academics and musicologists, we here discover the true story of how those classic songs were written.

With contributions from; friends Barry Miles, Klaus Voorman and Maureen Cleaves; musicians Alan Moore and Chris Ingham; journalists Robert Christgau [Village Voice] and Anthony De Curtis [Rolling Stone]; authors Johnny Rogan, Pete Doggett, Steve Turner, and Nigel Williamson and broadcaster Paul Gambaccini.


Evidently, the disk is a companion to previous DVD that concentrates on Lennon and McCartney's earlier music.

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Still speaking of Paul: Here's a preview of his new "Fireman" album.

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A Doctor Strange movie is evidently in the works.

it looks like the moustachioed Master of the Mystic Arts might be getting his own movie after all. At least, that’s if Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige has his way.

“Dr. Strange? This is one of the best characters we have. [He represents] this amazing cosmic universe to Marvel that we haven’t played with in films yet and I think could be amazing to play with,” Feige told MTV. “I love the idea of tapping into the magical realm of the Marvel Universe, which is fairly significant and hasn’t yet seen life on screen.”


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Video: Carol Burnett meets in Boris Karloff on "The Entertainers" TV show from 1964.