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Friday, November 06, 2009

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Sir Ben Kingsley.

Labels: Ben Kingsley, Jake Gyllenhaal

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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Tim Burton at the MOMA

Filmmaker Tim Burton will be the subject of a five-week exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, beginning November 22nd.

Burton got into the movie business in the early 1980s as an animator for Walt Disney, doing drawings that never made it into The Black Cauldron. The MOMA show will highlight his drawings and paintings -- all in a style that moviegoers will recognize.

The link to MOMA is here. An Indiewire story with more details about the show is here.

Labels: Tim Burton, Walt Disney

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Happy 404th Fail Day, Guy Fawkes!

You should have tried to look less guilty.

Labels: Guy Fawkes

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Sesame Street Opens, Then and Now

As Google notes today, the 40th anniversary season of Seasame Street is coming right up. The first show airs on November 10th.

Herewith, the colorful hi-tech show opener for season 40, followed by the decidedly low-tech opener for season 1 in 1969 -- where "special effects" means camera zooms at 0:19 and 0:42.

Labels: Sesame Street

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to Host the Oscars

Martin: "I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin."

More from the LA Times and the Academy.

Labels: Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, The Oscars

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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Creative Director

If you've ever wondered what the minds behind Hello Kitty might look like, this is your lucky day.

Meet creative director Yuko Yamaguchi, shown at a book signing for 'Hello Kitty: Guide to Life' in London last week. Artistic copper-dyed hair? Check. Adult pigtails? Check. Knee-high Doc Martens? Check. If it doesn't work out in the toy world, she can always add a pair of crazy eyeglasses and build skyscrapers.

But not to descend into snark. It's Hello Kitty's 35th anniversary, which is the point of the hoopla, and I do admire the Sanrio Corporation's ability to keep HK kitschy, lovable and hip all at the same time, for decades at a time. It's quite a balancing act. Congratulations to Ms. Yamaguchi, however she needs to style herself to get the job done.

Not everyone is sending anniversary bouquets, of course. One anti-fan is actually giving away this amazing toaster.

(Image of Yuko Yamaguchi supplied by WENN. And! See still more photos of Hello Kitty fashion and such.)

Labels: Hello Kitty, Yuko Yamaguchi

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Monday, November 02, 2009

Halloween With the Stars

Three costumes from Halloween 2009...

Heidi Klum as a raven...

Pop singer Debbie Gibson as a devil...

LaToya Jackson as...???

(All photos supplied by WENN.)

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Heath Ledger, Video Director

From rapper N'fa (a.k.a. No Fixed Abode), comes a music video for his song "Cause An Effect," directed by the late Heath Ledger, the actor who made 2008's The Dark Knight worth watching (parts of).

Cause An Effect (remastered) - Directed by Heath Ledger

No Fixed Abode | MySpace Video

A link to N'fa's MySpace page is here. The Ledger-directed video is up front.

Also interesting is a short piece with N'fa talking about the making of the video.

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