Archive for May, 2007
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Conversion to Schrutebucks: 1 stanley nickel = (1 schrutebuck * 1 leprechaun)/ 1 unicorn
Cash Value: ? ? ? 1 stanley nickel = $ (1 leprechaun/1000)/ 1 unicorn
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A Harry Potter theme park just became a lot closer to being built. J.K. Rowling approved of the plans to build the park in Orlando. A month or so ago it was discovered that she had final say on the rights to a Potter Park and was being very picky about its design and layout.
“The plans I have seen look incredibly exciting and I don’t think fans of the books or films will be disappointed,” Rowling said.
The park would be scheduled to open in 2009 and is being built by Warner Brothers and Universal. There is also talks of launching the park with an 8th Harry Potter book, though Rowling said on her website it wouldn’t be a novel.
“I have got enough story for seven books and I never planned to carry the story beyond the end of book seven. I might do an eighth book for charity, a kind of encyclopedia of the world, so that I could use all the extra material that’s not in the books – we’ll see!”
Sarah, when we lived together, would get MAD free food from her work. She would get stuff that was about to expire or items that were mistake shipments. In the last week before we moved she brought home a thee pound block of Roquefort cheese, which has an estimated retail price of $70.
At first we didn’t know what the cheese was. She knew it was cheese and it was free so she brought it home to me. We opened it up and were shocked to discover it was putrid. It was by far the worse smelling cheese I have ever smelled in my life. So of course I HAD to taste it! It was basically like a blue cheese only more blue-cheese-ish than normal blue cheese.
After some research I discovered that Roquefort is known as the “King of Cheeses” and is considered to be one of the most pungent cheeses in the world. It’s actually a type of blue cheese but is made with ewes milk and only comes from one specific place in France (which is why its so expensive).
So far I’ve put the cheese in a salad, on apples, on crackers, in pastas, in stir fry, on apple pie, and on broccoli. I still have about a pound left and I’m just trying to figure out what other cool things I can do with it.
I was disappointed with the “Heroes” season finale. Like everyone else in the blogsphere, I was expecting a badass Sylar vs Peter fight and didn’t get to see one, but what bugged me the most about the finale was that Nathan sacrificed himself to get Peter out of the city. It doesn’t make sense.
Peter absorbs other people’s powers. We’ve even seen him use Nathan’s flight power. So why the heck didn’t Peter just fly himself into the air? Yes its less dramatic but it makes more sense. Well series Tim Kring has the answers:
“Somewhere in there is the explanation for having Nathan grab his bro and do the flying man thing. But the real explanation is that we wanted Nathan to show up and save the day! Yes, I will admit that there’s a very tiny window of logic there,” Kring continues with a laugh. “But what can I say? It’s requires the proverbial suspension of disbelief.”
I like to think that the radioactive power overrode all of Peter’s other powers and that’s why he couldn’t just fly away on his own.
An Internet parody of “The Simpsons” has drawn the ire of 20th Century Fox. The studio is pressuring online video hub Broadcaster.com to remove “The O.J. Simpsons,” three animated clips that reimagine the Fox series starring the former football star. You can watch the animated clips here.
“We respect the rights of content owners,” Broadcaster CEO Martin Wade III said. “We are examining all the issues raised by the Fox request. Our goal is to be a respecter of content rights and at the same time find legal ways to bring our community members the content they enjoy.”
From what I know of media law, “The O.J. Simpsons” would be considered a satire and since it is an internet clip and not something made specifically for profit the makers of the video and Broadcaster are within their legal rights of airing it.
HBO has been known to let the better part of two years pass between seasons of its original series. That will emphatically not be the case with “Entourage” this summer.
The show’s current season is scheduled to come to an end Sunday, June 3. It will then be off the air for all of 14 days before a new season kicks off on June 17, where it will anchor a Sunday lineup that also features two new shows, David Milch’s drama “John From Cincinnati” and another comedy, “Flight of the Conchords.”
HBO has also set a premiere date for the second season of “Big Love,” which will migrate to Monday nights starting June 11.
The short turnaround for “Entourage” owes to the fact that the current episodes are part of the show’s third season, which was broken up into two parts, the first 12 airing last summer and the remaining eight saved for this run. The episodes starting June 17 are part of the series’ fourth season.
“John from Cincinnati,” which centers on a Southern California surfing family and stars Bruce Greenwood, Rebecca De Mornay and Austin Nichols, is set to debut Sunday, June 10, following the series finale of “The Sopranos.” It will then move to 9 p.m. the following week.
Season two of “Big Love” will follow the polygamous Henrickson family, whose lifestyle had been exposed at the end of the previous season. “Flight of the Conchords,” which debuts after “Entourage” on June 17, centers on a pair of musicians from New Zealand trying to make it in New York.
While doing promotional work for “Shrek the Third” Mike Myers has mentioned his interest on making a new Austin Powers movie that would focus on Doctor Evil.
“I have figured out that the story will be taken from the point of Doctor Evil,” Myers said in an interview while promoting Shrek the Third. “It will be powered from Doctor Evil’s point of view.” Myers added: “That will be the first of a trilogy. … I’m just joking! … I haven’t figured it all out. Who knows?”
Myers says it takes him three to four years to do a movie and after he finishes his next flick, “The Love Guru,” he plans to start working on the next Powers film.
On the eve of the bowing of “Shrek the Third,” Mike Mitchell (“Sky High, “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo”) is in negotiations to direct “Shrek 4″ for DreamWorks Animation says The Hollywood Reporter.
Penned by Tim Sullivan, the fourth installment will chronicle the continuing adventures of Shrek and his buddies. Josh Klausner recently penned a rewrite.
The “Shrek” series is a massive moneymaker for Dreamworks, the first taking in $484.4 million worldwide, the second one a whopping $920.7 million.
This is why personal hygiene is important. A nine year old kept hearing “Rice Krispies” in his ear and when his mother finally took him to the doctors they discovered two spiders chilling on his ear drum.
When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser. Jesse was given the spiders — now both dead — as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.
A new study proves that female cheetahs sleep around and it is common for them to have cubs from multiple mates. Not only does this suck for Cheetah husbands, but it apparently endangers the species.
“Mating with more than one male poses a serious threat to females, increasing the risk of exposure to parasites and diseases,” said Dada Gottelli, ZSL’s lead scientist for the research. “Females also have to travel over large distances to find new males, making them more vulnerable to predation, so infidelity is a heavy burden.”
This is my first born. His name is Edit and Sarah helped me pick him out. She also named him. I really wanted to name him “Re-Write” but she said that if I did everyone would call him “re-re” for short, so she suggested Edit. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the weekend, Kristin at E! posted a video clip where she interviewed John Glover (Lionel Luthor) about “Smallville.” In it she was asking about the season finale and several things came up. The first of which was that Chloe isn’t really dead. The second of which is that Annette O’Toole is leaving “Smallville.” The video clip has since been removed.
In the clip Kristin asked how they were going to handle Martha Kent being in Washington, D.C. and if they were going to film in D.C. John Glover looked really confused and said he didn’t know. Kristin asked again and he said “I’m under the impression that Annette won’t be back next year except for one or two guest appearances.”
The fact that E! and Kristin removed the video clip suggests that John Glover leaked way too much information ich leads me to believe that Annette O’Toole really has left “Smallville.”
Updated@7:31pm: I just got an email from a source at TV Guide saying Annette O’Toole has left “Smallville” for good. Thanks for confirming my scoop!
All of you regular readers are aware that I’m still very bitter about what happened with “Everwood.” Last year The CW renewed it but then at the 11th hour they uncanceled “7th Heaven,” which had already aired their series finale and canceled “Everwood” in it’s place. So all us “Everwood” fans had to say goodbye so that the The CW could have Reverend Camdem have an affair!
I was almost at my breaking point after the “Everwood” scanadal but I decided to have some faith in The CW. After all, it’s the child of The WB and The WB is what first hooked me to television. Specifically it was “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” “Dawson’s Creek” and “Felicity” that made me a TV slut. So I just wasn’t ready to say “F* U” to The CW yet. But man, what a difference a year makes, huh? ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ausiello has a really good interview with Scott Paterson (Luke) about the end of “Gilmore Girls.” If you were a fan of the show you HAVE to read it!
What was your reaction to hearing that the show was ending?
Patterson: I kind of expected it, actually. And I think I was probably a little relieved, and disappointed at the same time. So many things went through me when I heard the news. I wasn’t terribly shocked. I know a lot of people were very optimistic, but I wasn’t one of them.
Kevin Smith posted on View Askew that he finished his next screenplay.
Finished a script a few minutes ago. The comedy. 146 pages. I’ll spend tomorrow taming it down to 120 pages or so. It’s really funny, really dirty, and really touching stuff. Granted, I’m biased.
Rosario Dawson is set to star in the $6-20 million comedy to be shot in Minnesota. Shooting will happen back-to-back with his low budget horror film “Red State” starting sometime this winter.
Now. onto Red State… well. not now. First I’m gonna sleep. Then I’ll take some down-time to work on this current bad boy before launching into the Red State script.
