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You may have noticed in the news recently that there was a fire at Universal Studios. One of the things that burned was a film vault. The initial reports made it sound like a minor issue, but what I've been reading now looks much worse from a classic film viewing POV. It is true that the fire...

So last night I was reading the introductory section of script book #9 (which arrived yesterday afternoon :cool:). One of JMS's parenthetic asides ended with "Maybe one day that script will be written ......" (possibly somewhat paraphrased, since I don't have the text right in front of me)...

HDTV question re: new Star Wars DVD\'s I haven't yet gotten around to investing in an HDTV. So I have a question that was raised by reading the back of the box of the new Star Wars DVD's last night. Can the TV's easily be switched in and out of a mode where they display 4:3 pictures over the...

Most albums are, of course, titled either after a song on the album or based upon the name of the artist / band. However, sometimes albums are named based on something else; some bit of back story about the album. Simple examples would be Abbey Road and the multitude of albums titled Live...

Under the heading of "What are the cast members doing now?" I saw an ad for a touring production of A Christmas Carol which includes Jeff Conaway in the cast. It will be in Detroit December 7 - 12. It is headlined by Barry Williams (the ex-Greg Brady). The cast also includes Malik Yobe...

The other night I watched the AFI 100 Years 100 songs special. (Well, sorta. I was working on something at home while having it on.) They picked the top 100 songs in American movie history. They were not working by Oscar elligibility rules for Best Song, the songs need not have been written...

Last night on Showtime (a "premium" cable channel for those outside the US) I saw an ad for a remake of The Lion in Winter starring Patrick Stewart and Glen Close in the Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn roles. My only question is: Why? I mean, Stewart and Close are very fine actors and all...

Last night I ran across a newspaper article about the Rolling Stones having signed to give Best Buy the exclusive rights to sell their new Four Flicks DVD set for four months, and the resulting backlash from other retailers. This link is to a different story with similar content (I couldn't...

So last night I ended up watching about the last half of Dangerous Female (which is the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon). I had never seen any part of that before. Don't ever let anyone claim that casting directors don't have a vitally important job. This is the same story, and for a lot...

For my recent birthday I received Farscape DVD 3.3, Farscape DVD 3.4, and another copy of Farscape DVD 3.3 (oh, and a card saying the The Two Towers extended edition had been pre-ordered for me). So last Saturday I took the extra copy of 3.3 and the gift receipt back to Best Buy to trade in...

Last weekend I had noticed in the local newspaper that Best Buy was opeing the B5 S3 box set on sale for only about $2.50 more than my usual online discounter. (Trust me, this will get around to what the subject line advertises.) So I figured that since it would save the mail order delay I...

Edward James Olmos was trotted out as celebrity window dressing by SciFi at a recent publicity gathering for critics. So what did he do? As you can read in this article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he told the writers to tell their readers that if they are big fans of the original then...

The US cable network A&E will soon debut the series that I understand is called Spooks in the UK (here is airing under the title MI-5). I was wondering if any the British posters here had any recommendations (pro or con) about the show. Also, BBC-America recently started showing Red Cap. So...

Like many newspapers etc., when our local paper runs a movie review it includes a sidebar with the rating (G, PG, or whatever) and also what content got it that rating. This might include things like "brief nudity" , "graphic violence", "language", etc. The other day they ran a review for...

So i was watching Crossing Jordan the other night. Dr. Macy (head of the morgue) has leave town for a few days and gives Jordan a couple of keys and tells her that she is in charge. Jordan's response is "So suddenly I have leadership ability?" And Macy responds: "I flipped a coin. Look, just...

I remember seeing something a few days ago about how to make the "Post" box bigger, so that you can see more of your own post at a time while typing it in. However, I am failng to find that post now (actually it was in a reply). Could someone please either point me at it or re-state the info...

This doesn't strictly fit the "Books, TV shows & films" label, but live theater seemed a better fit here than in "Off Topic". If the mods disagree, that's fine. Anyway, The RSC is in residency here at the U for a couple weeks. They are doing several performances of each of 3 plays and doing...

After reading something that mentioned the Online Film Critic's Society compiled list of the 100 Greatest Villains of all time (their choice for #1 was Darth Vader), I couldn't resist tracking the list down on the web to see what their full set of choices was. I grinned to see a couple of...

VH-1\'s \"I Love The 80\'s\" So did anyone else watch any noticable amount of this? I ended up watching more of it than I would probably want to admit. Yeah, they ignored almost all of the real news of the era while doing their overview of American pop culture, but .... A lot of it was...