Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Always complaining that you’ve given half of your lifetime earnings to George Lucas?
Well, now he has done some good with our hard-earned funds and donated towards the building of a memorial to Martin Luther King in Washington DC.
Maxi big his charitable giving!
Considering there will probably not be anything beyond the possibility of a technical Oscar for Revenge of the Sith, we are pleased to report that Revenge of the Sith was named Hollywood Movie of the Year for 2005. (It knocked out Batman Begins and War of the Worlds for the honor.)
And while one might argue that the Star Wars internet presence swayed the voting just a bit (it’s voted on by the public), there still had to be some non-geek support to get this through. So we’ll go with being pleased by the award.
Those living in the Southern California area might wish to note that Uncle George, himself, will be accepting the award on Monday, the 24th.
Time to dust off that flannel!
That’s the official word. But the people over at Ewan News are launching a campaign to get TPTB to change their minds.
It has been confirmed to Ewan News that there will be no cast recording from Guys and Dolls; the recording label has pulled its financial backing. One Ewan fan who attended the play on Monday spoke with the Guys and Dolls orchestra conductor who told her about it.
Numerous Ewan fans travelled from all over the world to see this play — some more than once! It would be so wonderful to have a lasting memory of the brilliant cast and the songs they sang. Many more were unable to make the journey and a cast recording would be their only way to share the remarkable Guys and Dolls experience.
We are going to try to sway the powers that be in our favor. We would like every Ewan fan — and that includes you! — to write to the theater between October 23 and 29 to let them know how much you want to be able to buy a cast recording. And while we’re at it, let’s really grab their attention: include a pair of dice with your letter. The play revolves around the love lives of craps players, and the game of craps is played with a pair of dice.
Here is the address to the Piccadilly Theater:
Piccadilly Theatre
16 Denman Street
London
W1D 7DYThank you! :-)
If you can’t send dice, send postcards! Me? I’m sending Luci!
Spike TV paid $65 to $70 million for a six-year exclusive deal to run all six Star Wars movies, as well as enforcing the sterotype that girls don’t like Star Wars.
Not that I won’t watch the movies on Spike. It’s just… annoying.
The Air Force is testing transparent aluminum… As Karen Traviss points out, we’re getting damn close to transparisteel!
Also, the testing is at the Wright-Patterson Air Force base… I’ve been there. It’s where the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is. Totally a must-see for anyone into that sort of thing – it’s huge. (And if you’re lucky, sometimes they give tours of the warehouses of all the stuff they’re not putting up in the main museum. Or at least they did a few years back.)
Hooray!
The BBC confirms there will be a Dr Who spin-off aimed at an adult audience. “Torchwood (an anagram of Doctor Who) will feature Captain Jack.
IMDB says:
An adult spin-off of Doctor Who which contains sex and bad language is set to shock fans of the classic family TV show… Torchwood is to be written by Doctor Who scriptwriter Russell T. Davies and will star that program’s John Barrowman.
It follows a team investigating crime and alien activities in contemporary Britain. Davies says, “Torchwood will be a dark, clever, wild, sexy, British crime/sci-fi paranoid thriller cop show with a sense of humor.”
BBC3 boss Stuart Murphy adds, “The people have affairs with one another. There will be sex and swearing, I assume. I’m quite relaxed about that.”
So no doubt you’ve learned now that Daniel Craig is going to play James Bond, right? You can’t go anywhere without seeing the horrible headlines. (Seriously, folks: Bond, James Bond? NO SHIT.)
Anyway, the rumor mill has gotten hold of a leaked “in-house memo” that gives reasons for not casting actors most people have actually heard of. Witness:
Hugh Jackman, it read, was “too fey”, Colin Farrell “too sleazy”, Eric Bana “not handsome enough” – and Ewan McGregor “too short” at 5ft10.
That’s just cold. Okay, we’ll give them Colin Farrell, ’cause the man personifies sleaze, and yeah, the Ewan excuse is lame, but is there any woman here who thinks of Hugh Jackman as “fey?” If Jackman is what Hollywood considers a sissy, we’re all doomed.
There seems to be some confusion at the company making the “Serenity” action figures, because last time I checked Mal wasn’t a B cup.
You can see a better picture here.
Rivendell, Minas Tirith, even Lothlórien. But Indonesia? Merry and Pippin got around.
Two days in a row… Apparently, there’s a DVD coming out or something?
Stormtroopers in Times Square to promote Battlefront II. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared it officially Star Wars Day.
TFN tells us Brtish network Sky Movies has the rights to run all six films. Except TFN forgets to mention the whole British thing.
More pirated versions of ROTS will be turning up any day now. Entire internet says “duh.”