Pop tweets of the week
It's really hard to sleep with an Oscar.
— Steve Martin (@SteveMartinToGo) November 21, 2013
How amazing is France that they needed to invent the term Ménage à trois?
— Stephen Merchant (@StephenMerchant) November 21, 2013
#ThrowbackThursday - Can't be unseen. pic.twitter.com/dg8mpD8JfJ
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 21, 2013
“@E_Rooney96: @NathanFillion best thing Joss Whedon has ever said?”
You’re hired.
— Nathan Fillion (@NathanFillion) November 21, 2013
@elizadushku did you say something?
— Pop Culture Safari (@PopCultSafari) November 19, 2013
Python meeting in progress. Just considering the Redditch bid..... pic.twitter.com/oEDAqYkobo
— Eric Idle (@EricIdle) November 20, 2013
Pop culture roundup: Comic organizer! Orson Welles! Beatles! Pythons! Batman!
Via Blog into Mystery: Old school tech for keeping track of your comics collection.
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Read Orson Welles' FBI file.
NBC has turned up the audio -- no video -- of the first U.S. TV coverage of the Beatles, dating Nov. 18, 1963, and reported by broadcaster Edwin Newman.
Here's another entertaining early news story about the group.
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Monty Python reunites! Most of them, anyway!
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Via the Golden Age: Check out this cool, vintage promo book for the 1940s Batman newspaper strip.
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Read Orson Welles' FBI file.
In 1945 you can see the hysteria of the Red Scare cranking into gear. Welles’ support of the UN is held against him, and several times it is mentioned as a point of some interest that Welles undertook some travel for, or otherwise was working at the behest of Franklin Roosevelt, who, let’s remember, was the president of the United States at the time. Similarly, wartime activities in support of the USSR—at the time an ally of the United States in the global conflict known as “World War II” against Nazi Germany—that’s also used as evidence that Welles is probably a subversive.-----
NBC has turned up the audio -- no video -- of the first U.S. TV coverage of the Beatles, dating Nov. 18, 1963, and reported by broadcaster Edwin Newman.
Here's another entertaining early news story about the group.
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Monty Python reunites! Most of them, anyway!
In a nod to Graham Chapman, a Python member who died in 1989, a sign over the stage read: “Monty Python Live (mostly). One down, five to go.”
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Via the Golden Age: Check out this cool, vintage promo book for the 1940s Batman newspaper strip.
Video clip: Birth of the Dalek from "Me, You and Doctor Who"
A clip from yet another BBC program celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Doctor Who."
Video teaser for new Beatles - Brian Epstein graphic novel
"The Fifth Beatle," a new graphic novel based on the life of Beatles' manager Brian Epstein has been garnering some good reviews. Here's a video peek:
See the companion mini-film to "Gravity"
This worth a look.
Some background:
Some background:
The idea for Aningaaq, which follows an Inuit fisherman stationed on a remote fjord in Greenland, occurred to the Cuarons as they were working out the beats for the Gravity screenplay. "It's this moment where the audience and the character get this hope that Ryan is finally going to be OK," Jonas, 31, tells THR. "Then you realize that everything gets lost in translation." Both Cuarons spent time in the glacial region (Alfonso once toyed with setting a movie there) and fell in love with the barren vastness of its frozen wilderness. During one of those visits, Alfonso met a drunken native who would become the basis for the title character, played by Greenland's Orto Ignatiussen. But it wasn't until Jonas, on a two-week trek gathering elements for his film, was inspired by the local inhabitants' profound attachment to their sled dogs that he decided to incorporate that element into the plot.
Hear Monty Python on the BBC's Desert Island Disks
In celebration of the recent news that members of Monty Python are reuniting for a stage show, the BBC has posted the Pythons' appearances on its classic "Desert Island Discs" program, in which guests talk about their favorite music, literature and more.
Listen here:
John Cleese
Eric Idle
Terry Gilliam
Michael Palin
Terry Jones
Listen here:
John Cleese
Eric Idle
Terry Gilliam
Michael Palin
Terry Jones
New comics shipping Nov. 20, 2013: Fifth Beatle; Spy Vs. Spy; Spider-Man Cosmic Adventures!
Click the links to order discounted items from Amazon.
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
Spy vs. Spy: Fight to the Finish! (Mad)
Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Cosmic Adventures
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
Spy vs. Spy: Fight to the Finish! (Mad)
Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Cosmic Adventures
Pics: Doctor Who "An Adventure in Space and Time"
New images from the BBC's upcoming docu-drama "Doctor Who: A Journey Through Space and Time," which looks at the behind-the-scenes story of bringing Doctor Who to television back in 1963.
The film is set to air Nov. 21 in Britain and Nov. 22 in the United States.
The film is set to air Nov. 21 in Britain and Nov. 22 in the United States.
Preview the new Mickey Mouse animated short: "Get A Horse"
Get A Horse! Clip on Disney Video
This clip will appear before screenings of Disney's new animated feature "Frozen."
Lots of Doctor Who anniversary programming on BBC Radio
BBC Radio 4 has several Doctor Who-themed programs available for streaming as part of the series' 50th anniversary celebration.
Here's a look:
Doctor Who and the Daleks - NEW to 4 Extra
Saturday 16th November
6.00 - 6.45pm - episodes 1 & 2 (repeated 12.00 - 4.30am - episodes 1 - 10)
A reading based on the original 1963 TV serial featuring the First Doctor and narrated by one of the first companions, Ian Chesterton (played by William Russell).
Nuclear threat looms large, no more so than on the radiation ravaged world of Skaro. It's there the TARDIS heads for the Doctor's first meeting with the bane of all his travels ... the Daleks.
Protect and Survive
Sunday 17th November
6.00 - 6.45pm - episodes 1 & 2 (repeated 12.00 - 1.30am - episodes 1 - 4)
In this drama the seventh Doctor (played by Sylvester McCoy) and his young companions Hex and Ace are plunged into the late 80s, where history has gone terrifyingly wrong with the world trembling on the brink of a final terrible war.
Fanfare for the Common Men - NEW to 4 Extra
Monday 18th November
6.00 - 6.45pm - episodes 1 & 2 (repeated 12.00 - 1.18am - episodes 1 - 4)
A four-part drama featuring the fifth Doctor (Peter Davison). The Doctor's young companion Nyssa is unfamiliar with the Earth's musical heritage but in a trip back to 60s the Beatles are nowhere to be seen and their role has been taken by the Common Men ...
A Thousand Tiny Wings
Tuesday 19th November
6.00 - 6.45pm (repeated 12.00 - 1.00am)
A full cast audio drama in which the seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) arrives in a remote homestead during the period of Kenyan independence in December 1963 and is reunited with an old acquaintance - an ex-Nazi called Klein.
Farewell Great Macedon - NEW to 4 Extra
Wednesday 20th November
6.00 - 6.45pm (repeated 12.00 - 1.00am)
Based on an unproduced television script and brought to life through a combination of performance and narration. The original team of the first Doctor and companions Ian, Barbara and Susan step out from the TARDIS into the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and meet Alexander the Great.
Human Resources
Thursday 21st November
6.00 - 6.45pm (repeated 12.00 - 12.52am)
A full cast drama featuring the eighth doctor (played by Paul McGann). The two-part story explains the on-going mystery of Lucie Miller (Sheridan Smith), paired off with the Doctor in a witness protection programme.
Blue Veils and Golden Sands
Friday 22nd November
11.15am (repeated 9.15pm and 4.15am)
The remarkable story of pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop music composer Delia Derbyshire. Starring Sophie Thompson.
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Friday 22nd November
6.00 - 6.45pm (repeated 12.00 - 1.00am)
A reading by William Russell (Ian Chesterton in the original TV serial on which the story is based). This is one of the classic Doctor Who stories featuring the first Doctor and set in an occupied Britain.
Doctor Who special - Who Made Who - NEW to 4 Extra
Saturday 23rd November
9.00am - 12.00pm (repeated 4.00 - 7.00pm)
Tracy-Ann Oberman is the guide on a journey back to a time before Time Lords. Interviewees include Doctor Who writers Charlie Higson and AL Kennedy and William Hartnell's grand-daughter. Featured programmes include 'The Reunion', which gathers the original 1963 cast and 'Whatever Happened to ... Susan Foreman?' which tries to solve the mystery of the The Doctor's original travelling companion, his grand-daughter.
Lucie Miller
Sunday 24th November
12.00am
An Eighth Doctor adventure starring Paul McGann, Sheridan Smith and Graeme Garden.
To the Death
Sunday 24th November
6.00pm (repeated 12.00am)
The Time Lord calls on friends, family and the Monk to help overthrow the Dalek occupation of Earth. Eighth Doctor adventure stars Paul McGann, Sheridan Smith and Graeme Garden.
Here's a look:
Doctor Who and the Daleks - NEW to 4 Extra
Saturday 16th November
6.00 - 6.45pm - episodes 1 & 2 (repeated 12.00 - 4.30am - episodes 1 - 10)
A reading based on the original 1963 TV serial featuring the First Doctor and narrated by one of the first companions, Ian Chesterton (played by William Russell).
Nuclear threat looms large, no more so than on the radiation ravaged world of Skaro. It's there the TARDIS heads for the Doctor's first meeting with the bane of all his travels ... the Daleks.
Protect and Survive
Sunday 17th November
6.00 - 6.45pm - episodes 1 & 2 (repeated 12.00 - 1.30am - episodes 1 - 4)
In this drama the seventh Doctor (played by Sylvester McCoy) and his young companions Hex and Ace are plunged into the late 80s, where history has gone terrifyingly wrong with the world trembling on the brink of a final terrible war.
Fanfare for the Common Men - NEW to 4 Extra
Monday 18th November
6.00 - 6.45pm - episodes 1 & 2 (repeated 12.00 - 1.18am - episodes 1 - 4)
A four-part drama featuring the fifth Doctor (Peter Davison). The Doctor's young companion Nyssa is unfamiliar with the Earth's musical heritage but in a trip back to 60s the Beatles are nowhere to be seen and their role has been taken by the Common Men ...
A Thousand Tiny Wings
Tuesday 19th November
6.00 - 6.45pm (repeated 12.00 - 1.00am)
A full cast audio drama in which the seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) arrives in a remote homestead during the period of Kenyan independence in December 1963 and is reunited with an old acquaintance - an ex-Nazi called Klein.
Farewell Great Macedon - NEW to 4 Extra
Wednesday 20th November
6.00 - 6.45pm (repeated 12.00 - 1.00am)
Based on an unproduced television script and brought to life through a combination of performance and narration. The original team of the first Doctor and companions Ian, Barbara and Susan step out from the TARDIS into the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and meet Alexander the Great.
Human Resources
Thursday 21st November
6.00 - 6.45pm (repeated 12.00 - 12.52am)
A full cast drama featuring the eighth doctor (played by Paul McGann). The two-part story explains the on-going mystery of Lucie Miller (Sheridan Smith), paired off with the Doctor in a witness protection programme.
Blue Veils and Golden Sands
Friday 22nd November
11.15am (repeated 9.15pm and 4.15am)
The remarkable story of pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop music composer Delia Derbyshire. Starring Sophie Thompson.
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Friday 22nd November
6.00 - 6.45pm (repeated 12.00 - 1.00am)
A reading by William Russell (Ian Chesterton in the original TV serial on which the story is based). This is one of the classic Doctor Who stories featuring the first Doctor and set in an occupied Britain.
Doctor Who special - Who Made Who - NEW to 4 Extra
Saturday 23rd November
9.00am - 12.00pm (repeated 4.00 - 7.00pm)
Tracy-Ann Oberman is the guide on a journey back to a time before Time Lords. Interviewees include Doctor Who writers Charlie Higson and AL Kennedy and William Hartnell's grand-daughter. Featured programmes include 'The Reunion', which gathers the original 1963 cast and 'Whatever Happened to ... Susan Foreman?' which tries to solve the mystery of the The Doctor's original travelling companion, his grand-daughter.
Lucie Miller
Sunday 24th November
12.00am
An Eighth Doctor adventure starring Paul McGann, Sheridan Smith and Graeme Garden.
To the Death
Sunday 24th November
6.00pm (repeated 12.00am)
The Time Lord calls on friends, family and the Monk to help overthrow the Dalek occupation of Earth. Eighth Doctor adventure stars Paul McGann, Sheridan Smith and Graeme Garden.
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