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calliopes_pen ([personal profile] calliopes_pen) wrote2012-03-09 11:00 am

Fannish Items of Interest

From The Comics Journal: Remembering Sheldon Moldoff.

The MPAA is going after Hotfile now.

Michigan State University is offering a course called Surviving The Coming Zombie Apocalypse: Catastrophes And Human Behavior.

New images of the design for the new Ninja Turtles tv show.

Re-Animator The Musical returns.

First picture from The Lone Ranger…with Johnny Depp as Tonto.

An Excalibur ad with promo art, from 1988.

Hammer studios has issued a public appeal to track down lost scenes that were cut from its films by censors. The movies include: Rasputin: The Mad Monk, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Reptile, Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell, and The Viking Queen.

The 50 most memorable action movie moments. So now I need to track down Encounters of the Spooky Kind. Loved the hopping vampires in Mr. Vampire, so I would probably like that one, too.

Geek Talk interviews Lewis Lovhaug, aka Linkara. They discuss SOPA, his time working at Barnes and Noble, Star Trek, Doctor Who, MST3K, and various other topics.

Promo image of Christian Bale in the new, slightly modified Batsuit.

From Cracked: 5 People From History Who Were Absurdly Hard To Kill.

First clip from DC Nation: Baby Superman.

Kiefer Sutherland was almost Robin.

Tor takes a close look at the trailers for Mirror Mirror and Snow White And The Huntsman, and how they differ.

RedemptionCast interviews Tim Minear about his time writing for Angel. [livejournal.com profile] whedonesque discusses it here.

Colin Morgan: The Year of the Thoughtful, Intelligent Geek.

Lionsgate plans to make a film focusing on the theft of Nicholas Cage’s copy of Action Comics #1.

And a meme:

1. Leave a comment to this post.
2. If requested, I will give you a letter (feel free to comment if you've already had a letter from elsewhere or don't want one).
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.
lafemmedarla: (batb. beast/belle. score!)

[personal profile] lafemmedarla 2012-03-09 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I have a letter please? :)
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[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2012-03-09 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll take a letter Miss Jones!

(Sorry, slight misquote there!)
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[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2012-03-09 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] loveflyfree.livejournal.com 2012-03-10 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
oooh I'd like a letter please. :)