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The forthcoming Disney-Pixar movie UP has had it’s release date bumped up from June 12, 2009 to May 29, 2009. Hey — two weeks is two weeks!
They also have a proper site for the movie now UP : The Official Website. This site is, at this point, little more than a teaser for [...]

This is right out of the headlines.  Senator John McCain attacked Senator Barack Obama’s readiness for office today… what a surprise… he continues to try to scare American’s about his opponent, backsliding from his brief moment of decency week before last.
Reminds me of the movie An American President, from which I have taken today’s quote:
He [...]

I’m a big Kevin Costner fan — have been since 1985’s Fandango. And I’m also a fan of Ron Shelton, especially his early works.  However… it is being rumored that Costner and Shelton met recently to discuss a Bull Durham sequel, and I’m not so sure that a Bull Durham sequel is a great [...]

The Tennessean:
Jerry Reed, country music’s howling virtuoso and a star of stage, studio and screen, has died. Born Jerry Reed Hubbard, Mr. Reed suffered from emphysema and was in hospice care. He was 71, and he leaves an unparalleled legacy of laughter and song.

Don LaFaontaine, the undisputed “King of Voiceovers” died yesterday at the age of 68.  LaFontaine has voiced over 5,000 movie trailers and 350,000 commercials.  He is credited (or responsible, depending upon your views) for the ubiquitous introductory line, “In a world…”.

FoxNews.com has the story of an electric car club, the Fox Valley Electric Auto Association, that meets monthly in Naperville, Illinois. Interesting to me is how much the electric car enthusiasts sound like the computer enthusiasts of the 1970s:
“We came to the conclusion a long time ago the car companies weren’t going to make [...]

The unspecified problems are affecting all 55 of the company’s shipping centers.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve found Netflix’s service to be very reliable over the last five or so years. I was pleased that they sent me an email right up-front when they couldn’t ship my next movies.

Screenrant: Shepherd Book Gets a Book, Serenity Fans Rejoice.
Whedon said that if there were ever by some fortuitous miracle, a Serenity sequel, there would never be enough room to explain Book’s back history. So Whedon derived the only way possible to expound on his own universe. The place where he has the control he needs [...]

Bernie Mac, comedian and actor, died Saturday in Chicago of complications from pneumonia.
Bernie Mac was one of the funniest men who’s ever lived.  He had a unique voice and his presence will be sorely missed.

Kevin Smith has won an appeal with the MPAA over the rating of the forthcoming movie “Zach and Miri Make a Porno”. The film, which was initially rated NC-17 by the Gestapo Motion Picture Association of America, reversed its rating decision after the appeals board viewed the movie with Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier.
“They [...]