This is a Muppet News Flash: Puppeteer Jerry Nelson, the man behind Sesame Street muppet Count von Count, died yesterday at age 78. Nelson, a cast member of the show for over 40 years, also brought to life the characters Herry Monster, Fat Blue, Sherlock Hemlock and the Amazing Mumford. Nelson’s first job with the…
We’re exactly a year away from its release, but Disney is wisely beginning to tease next June’s Monsters University with the opening of Brave on Friday. The sequel to the successful Monsters Inc. will once more feature vocal work from Billy Crystal and John Goodman, joined by Steve Buscemi, Dave Foley, Julia Sweeney, Joel Murray,…
Russell T. Davies, the man responsible for the highly successful resurrection of Doctor Who and its spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, last left his Hollywood career to return to Manchester, England to take care of his ailing partner. This summer, Andrew Smith was diagnosed with brain cancer. As matters progressed, Smith and Davies…
Last week, I told you about the first Christmas for my late wife Kim Yale, and myself. Now I’ll tell you about our last. That night Kim really wanted to go to Christmas Eve service at our church. Redeemer held it at 8 PM to enable those who were very young and very old to…
…or at least your voice. Taking a cue from the recording of an audience at San Diego Comic-Con for crowd noise in Tron: Legacy, composer Hans Zimmer wants you to add your voice and try for a chance to be included in The Dark Knight Rises. Says Zimmer: I’m shining the bat-signal up into the…
Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman and former chief executive of Apple Inc., former owner and CEO of Pixar, and the single largest shareholder of The Walt Disney Company (now owner of Marvel), passed away Wednesday at the age of 56. It would be almost impossible to overstate Steve Jobs’ impact on the world at large,…
From Seven Realms Publishing- In the Golden Age of Adventure… Dodge Dalton and his team of heroes are back and this time, the stakes are even higher. When a faceless madman seeks out the secrets of the Outpost, created thousands of years ago by a mysterious civilization, he has one thing on his mind: the…
When a show deviates too far from the source material, its fate is in the hands of the writing staff who can take the raw elements and run with them or spin their wheels and grind the freshness out of the subject matter. Much as [[[Smallville]]] ran out of steam six seasons back, its spiritual…
See that patch on the head? Somebody opened it and scooped out a lot of information, including information about you. There was an extremely large disclosure of usernames, e-mail addresses, and lightly-encrypted passwords from Gawker over the weekend, part of an ongoing war between Gawker and 4chan. If you ever created an account at Gawker,…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews by Tommy Hancock “The Hungry Swamp” a tale from the anthology THE PHANTOM CHRONICLES, VOLUME ONE, Moonstone BooksWritten by Martin Powell There are lots of great things to say about Lee Falk’s The Phantom. If you know of him at all, you know most of the tropes: the jungle setting, the tribesmen…
Bleeding Cool reports that Jonny Rench, comics colorist best known for his recent work for DC and Wildstorm, from Batman, Human Target, Midnighter, The Programme and Red Menace, has passed away from a heart attack at the age of 28. His last work appears to be in the now disturbingly titled Welcome To Tranquility: One…
Thundercats is one of those shows I like to sit back and think fondly of… but then I watch it as an adult (well, as much of adult as I can be…) and folks? It makes me wonder what the #$% I was on as a child. Case in point? The clip posted below should…
