Once again, Paramount simply doesn’t get it. How is a fan making a film that only *increases* the value of your story franchise HURT you? F you and your lawyers (again)!
To boldly go where no copyright suit has gone before
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go NASA! But then again, I was a believer from DAY ONE. 🙂
Posters: NASA really really wants you to believe in the future of space travel
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Very cool – It’s the same age as me, it needs that makeover….!
How the Smithsonian is restoring the original USS Enterprise to full 1967 glory
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Lost one of the great ones over the weekend. So sad. Sleep well, Major Tom.
great Sean Nelson article in The Stranger:
In Death as in Life, David Bowie Remains the Master of Self-Invention
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another great one has passed….RIP.
Ex-Harlem Globetrotters star Meadowlark Lemon dies
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Meadowlark Lemon, the “clown prince” of basketball’s barnstorming Harlem Globetrotters, whose blend of hook shots and humor brought joy to millions of fans around the world, has died. He was 83.
Lemon’s wife and daughter confirmed to the team that he died Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz., Globetrotters spokesman Brett Meister said Monday. Meister did not know the cause of death.
Though skilled enough to play professionally, Lemon instead wanted to entertain, his dream of playing for the Globetrotters hatched after watching a newsreel of the all-black team at a cinema house when he was 11.
Lemon ended up becoming arguably its most popular player, a showman known as much for his confetti-in-the-water-bucket routine and slapstick comedy as his half-court hook shots and no-look, behind-the-back passes.
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So for Prisoner fans, there is so much, yet so little. Here we have a great, completely enigmatic series that only lasted one season and was on tv the year I was born(!). So far ahead of its time, yet its prescient story is (literally) ever more real to us today, whether people choose to admit it or not.
But with all good stories, we are left wanting far more, and Patrick McGoohan – now sadly no longer with us – largely clammed up on the topic in his life and career after The Prisoner. And the recent 2009 attempt at an AMC remake of The Prisoner – despite a great Six (Jim Caviezel) and a potentially great Two (Ian McKellen) largely foundered in my view – too many attempts at distracting side plots without the deeper meaning(s) of the original, sadly.
But….in the late 80s, DC Comics published a mini-series that purported to ‘explain’ what happened to Number Six and The Village post-TV series. It was later put into a graphic novel – Shattered Visage – in 2000, which I only recently became aware of – I got a copy and have now read it twice (it’s a quick read). But it took the Wikipedia article to really begin to dig beneath the surface – like the series, I think the story is fairly deep, and actually even may shed some light on the VERY enigmatic (and often heavily criticized) ending episode of the series (Fall Out).
I won’t recap anything here, save to say i’ll need to re-read the story multiple times to dig through all the stuff noted in the Wikipedia article, to be sure. But for Prisoner fans, I think this definitely merits a read – or Six. 🙂
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but the first are still the best – the Daleks!
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One of the great ones passed away earlier this month. I first started listening to Yes back in high school and while it’s been somewhat sporadic of late, those early albums (and to some degree, even the 80s stuff that finally came closer to making them a household name for a bit) were very near and dear.
Rest in peace, master of bass……
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One of the baddest of the all-time bad guys passed away over the weekend – Christopher Lee, at 93. RIP, Lord Summerisle…..
Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93
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