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Huge Head of Pharaoh Unearthed in Egypt–BBC NEWS headline, 3/01/2010

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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Here is the story.

Images: (Top) Yul Brynner as Ramses in Moses via images.bloguez.com via omurtlak.com; Pyramid via;
(Middle)  Wences’ man in the Box via povonline.com: Senor Wences’ arm and Johnnie 2.bp,blogspot.com via historiasdeiregatecha.blogspor.com: Senor Wences & Johnnie via magicposters.net: Head of Amenhotep III via bbc.co.uk;  (Bottom) Land Rover via vismod.com; Omar Sharif s3.hubimg.com via hubpages.com; […]

Reason 4,867. Why China Is Eating Our Lunch:

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

science + religion today
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Feb 19, 2010
What Texas Thinks of Evolution
According to a poll conducted by the University of Texas and The Texas Tribune, 30 percent of people in the state believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and more than half—51 percent—don’t believe that “human beings, as we know them today, developed […]

Vincenzo is the person who found irony in the “Twenty One” quiz show scandal. Everyone was worried about keeping the high ground for a program sponsored by GERITOL tonic for “tired blood.”

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

 I sent the following item from GADGET LAB
to Vincenzo Kolchak:

Blu-ray Maker Re-Boxes $500 Player, Charges $3,500
* By Charlie Sorrel Email Author
* January 22, 2010
* 7:14 am
* Categories: Media Players

“Above you see two Blu-ray players. On the bottom is the Oppo BDP-83, a $500 machine. On top is the Lexicon BD-30, which will set you […]

A Movie Tagline Test. Identify the Film from the corresponding Tagline.

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Four Points for Each Correct Answer
Each tagline is from IMDb.com.  Emphasis is studio’s.

1-An offer you can’t refuse.
2-A Tale of the Christ
3-His Triumph Changed The World Forever.
4-It’s a race for the secret … or TOTAL DESTRUCTION
5-The GREATEST ROMANCE and ADVENTURE in a THOUSAND YEARS!
6-Gable and Lancaster make the seas boil in the battle adventure that hits […]

How will they determine the difference?

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Movie made by chimpanzees to be broadcast on television
By Matt Walker, Editor, Earth News

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There were far worse movies than THE OSCAR, but those films did not require an all-star cast to be horrible. I suggest you rent this epic because it will keep you in stitches.  Certain bad movies transcend their mediocrity to rise to […]

Rest In Peace

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Silver screen legend Jean Simmons dies at 80
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, January 23rd 2010, 11:41 AM

Baron/Getty
Jean Simmons - shown in 1954 - starred in movies such as ‘Affair with a Stranger’ and ‘The Actress’ in her early career.
LOS ANGELES - Jean Simmons, the film star who played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, sang with Marlon Brando […]

I wonder what he’d look like viewed through beer goggles.

Friday, January 15th, 2010

New Osama Bin Laden PICTURES: FBI’s Digitally-Enhanced Images Of How He May Look
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TodayHuffington Post/AP First Posted: 01-15-10 11:32 AM   |   Updated: 01-15-10 12:23 PM
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Osama Bin Laden may look drastically different today than he did just a few years ago, and the FBI has released new pictures showing what he may look like today.The digitally-enhanced images […]

Celluloid Christmas Trivia…

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

 Max Shreck was first runner-up for the Kris Kringle role in…

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…but Edmund Gwenn must have known someone.
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Images: (1) (Nosferatu) via moviewallpapers.net; (Title Screen nof Miracle on 34th Street) shillpages.com; (2) (Nosferatu shadow) via scrapetv.com) See (3) for bag & hat; (3) (hat) via plumparty.com; (bag) via buycostumes.com; (Nosferatu likeness)
(Nosferatu likeness) democraticunderground.com via i418.photobucket.com;

You figure it out.

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

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Image: (Nosferatu) via greencine.com; (Kellogg’s Sugar Pops) via the imaginaryworld.com

I’ll simply follow the Axis/Actor lead.

Monday, October 5th, 2009

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Controversial South African Ad Melds Hitler And James Dean
First Posted: 10- 1-09 05:30 PM   |   Updated: 10- 2-09 10:21 AM
South Africa’s CNA Stores decided having just one celebrity’s image on their latest ad was just not enough. Instead, as AdFreak reports, they decided to meld the faces of Adolph HItler and James Dean into a […]

They were thinking Dr. Seuss and Marvel…

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

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A few Mazda concept vehicles
graced the Detroit Auto Show earlier this month.
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Images: (Mazda) Road&Track.com; (Bale) img.trb,com via swamppolitics.com; (symbol) polaris.umuc.edu; (Grinch hat) imagecache2.allposters.com via deborahsteinber.com; (Grinch) via fishkite.com;
This entry was posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 1:51 pm and is filed under Business, Japan, Automobiles.
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It’s a shame very feature shared billing with TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Date night outside Cologne, Summer, 1939.
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Robert Mitchum’s–THUNDER ROAD–would become the U.S. drive-in staple twenty years later and the Third Reich would never know.
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Images: (Thunder Road) moviepostershoppe.com; (screen) smartinc.com;
(Atlantic Wall bunkers)Paul Virilio in metropolis.com; (autos) det.news.com;
(intermission shot and food pictures) drive-infilm.com (Speer structure) stanford.edu
This entry was posted on Monday, July 10th, 2006 at 11:00 […]