April 2008
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20 Minutes Too Long
Working at a movie theater in high school, I learned a few rules of thumb about movie lengths: kids movies are 90 minutes long. Most comedies are 90 minutes or a little longer. Most other movies are two hours, summer blockbusters and war epics tend to be 2½. A new rule would be that Judd Apatow comedies are all 20 minutes too long.1Entertainment Weekly published a short piece a few weeks ago...
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80th Aniversary of Action Comics
Today is the 80th anniversary of the publication of Action Comics 1, which introduced the character of Superman and started the genre of superhero comics as we know it. You can read the entire first issue online here. A federal ruling last month restored copyright to Jerry Siegel’s heirs. Siegel and co-creator Joe Shuster initially received very little compensation for the character who is...
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Overheard on the Metro today
Guy One: (remarks how crowded the train is)
Guy Two: It's because the Pope's here.
Guy One: What?
Guy Two: (points to today's _Express_, with Pope Benedict XVI on the cover. That guy.)
Guy One: Oh, **The** Pope.
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola →
Relates to All Star Superman 10.
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Sixes and Eights
Last week’s Battlestar Galactica left me confused about which Cylon is which. I think my memory of last season is correct:
The Six (Tricia Helfer) presently onboard the Cylon ship is “Caprica Six”. She’s the one who seduced Gaius Baltar at the beginning of the series. She has developed more sympathy and understanding of the humans than other Cylons.
The Six that Baltar...