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The Greatest Screen Fairy Tales. The Company of Wolves is included, as is Buffy’s Hush there at the end. Snow White: A Tale of Terror is not.

Warner Bros. is already hiring a writer for Sherlock Holmes 3.

A (hopefully) complete guide to Yuletide stuff beyond your assignment.

Joss Whedon secretly filmed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing while working on The Avengers. Held off on mentioning it at first, believing it to be a joke. whedonesque discusses the press release here, and the press interviews of it here.

Found via Io9: Tim Curry sings Anything Can Happen On Halloween, in 1987’s The Worst Witch. So weird. Somehow, I managed to miss that one.

Watch the extended trailer for The History Channel’s Zombies: A Living History.

The Harry Potter films will be pulled from circulation by year’s end, save for digitally.

First look at the redesigned Berbils for the new Thundercats series.

The 20 Greatest Shows Canceled By Fox Before Their Time. whedonesque has a discussion of it here.

The Support Stacie Fanfic Auction starts again in September. I’m actually considering signing up for this round.

There’s a new David Tennant interview—you can watch it here.

The celebrities that will be on the newest season of Dancing With The Stars have been announced. You can read who they are here.

Sony has commissioned scripts for Spider-Man 5 and 6, despite not having one finished yet for Spider-Man 4.

The Syfy Channel is aware of its own ridiculousness, says Io9.

In other news, today is my birthday. I went with Mom and Dad to the restaurant that I occasionally like to go to—we’ve been going there for over 10 years, and it’s nice. We did that today, and I was in the middle of drinking some iced tea after a refill and I saw…something in my glass, near my straw. At first I thought it was a weird reflection on the ice, and eventually pulled it out.

I hope people can see where this is going.

Not ice--it was a bug. No, not a roach or a fly--it was long and brown, and it had wings. Cue me fleeing to the bathroom to scrub, while Mom got the waitress. The waitress (not the usual one we get, since she had the day off for once) got the manager.

She knows us, since we’ve been going there so long. A whole lot of apologies and double our money back (given to me after it was given to Dad, since it was in my drink) later, and the manager said a company had come in to spray for bugs yesterday. It’s what they always do once a month as a precaution, and they’ve never seen anything before now. Apparently, one thing was missed (or it got in the building at some point) and fell in my drink and died when nobody was looking--since my drink was the first poured that day. They’re going to bring that guy in to check the place top to bottom again, just in case.

Meanwhile, someone had (somehow) stolen the soap dispenser. They were having it replaced as I went to the bathroom to wash my hands.

Fright Night is going to be remade. I’ve only seen the first movie, and I loved that one—I don’t think it needs a remake. By the way, anyone know if the second movie is worth tracking down?

BBC News has a video interview with Matt Smith.

Anyone that hasn’t voted in the Rahne poll, please go here and do so. It closes Friday afternoon. Currently, I believe that Emma Taylor-Isherwood is in the lead with 5 votes, and a redheaded Georgia Moffett in second place with 3 votes. Oh, and keep in mind that if anyone feels like Erin Chambers would work, then vote for Other, as I mentioned yesterday. I don’t think I mentioned it in the poll post--I only linked to some icons of hers.

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My favorite movies as a kid? The only ones I can think of that could fit were probably The Little Mermaid, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Mr. Boogedy. I think we actually kept a tally of how many times I watched The Little Mermaid--we ran out of room after it hit 150 times. Then, the tape broke. And yet, I couldn't quote anything from it, because I preferred the version with the original ending. I also remember fast forwarding through all the songs--I did that with all Disney movies--because I didn't like musical numbers.

I've discussed Mr. Boogedy (and Bride of Boogedy) and Ghostbusters before. Ghostbusters is still my favorite. Reading through the other Writer's Block comments, I would have to add The Last Unicorn, Unico (both movies) and the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula to the list. Having finally watched The Last Unicorn again a few months back, it's still good--and the novel is on the to-be-read pile.

I could keep listing things, but it's easier to just point out the nostalgia tag.

Okay, thanks to that prompt brewsternorth gave me, I had three prompts (I'll still accept them in the previous post, though) and was able to sign up for the Finish-A-Thon. I’ll let everyone know when voting starts, so you can vote for what story I should write. According to the rules, that’s around the 21st, and the voting ends a week later. When the polls are posted on multific, I’ll let everyone know.

Merlin is coming to NBC, and should start airing in June. I read about it just as I finished downloading the entire series.

I'm also downloading all of Being Human, since someone recommended it.