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Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymystic

He was at LFCC and gave a talk - and free chats afterwards - on his life as everyone’s go-to villain. He’s got no idea why people first cast or saw him as that, and might like to try the odd romantic lead , but it pays the bills, he’s good at it and it’s fun. (And he’s now fast friends with screen son Tom Felton.)

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live In London / Celebration Day 2007)

Waking this thread from its slumber, as various Marvel social accounts are teasing a DOOM-related anno. Particularly Marvel Brasil, and Comic-Con BR is next weekend… SPOILERS FOR F4 and THUNDERBOLTS AHOY! So what do you think/hope the reveal is going to be?

[laughs throatily] Jee Killee Do Kankee pre inter-net Bolla... ...gods that hurt. Yes, I think Reva was badly scripted, but the Grand Inquisitor moreso... And look, if you're going to have an evil sneering potatohead villain previously incarnated by Jason Isaacs, you get Jason Isaacs, dammit. Accept no substitutes. (He is also, btw, one of the flat-out nicest and funniest actors I've ever run into in person.) Concur that Viv took what could have been a deeply irritating role and made it into something special, whole, and with chutzpah that Space Mom would have heartily approved of. Also concur that 61% is close to being a fair shake at the number. And it could have been a lot worse.

So True, but that depends on which crew you hire in and how much creative freedom you give them. Per the press release: Gero is joined by executive producers Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell of Safehouse Pictures (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters), Dean Devlin (Stargate, Independence Day), and Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Moonfall). Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi, longtime creative leaders within the Stargate universe, will serve as consulting producers. ...given that Monarch took the Godzilla legacy and ran with it fairly well, and Obi-Wan did the same (though it's no Andor...) I think it'll be pretty decent. If over-wordy. (And that's me saying that. Sheesh.)

🎵you gotta roll with it…🎶

Brendan & Bear McCreary, Chuck Cirino, Slash, Gene Hogan, Pete Griffin & Omer Ben-Zvi: Deathstalker

Farewell, then, to one of the most wonderfully strange actors in Whollyodd… Starting with Flesh For Frankenstein, Udo turned up - and usually shone - in a litany of weird, wonderful and usually low-budget movies, working with the likes of Fassbinder, Dario Argento, Gus Van Sant and friend Lars von Trier. He also became a touchstone for everyone making a vamp movie (everything from Blade to Bloodrayne) and a reliable voice actor for animation (Beware The Batman, Scooby-Doo, Justice League) and games… …so if any Soviet mind-controlled dinosaurs show up in your dreams tonight, Udo is still with us in spirit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo_Kier

Cape News from Italy: It’s often thought that you can inspire people to do good deeds of their own. But can you test for that - and who should do the inspiring? A technical term for this is prosocial behaviour: the small (or sometimes large) things people do, whatever the reason, that benefit other people or society as a whole. Francesco Pagnini at Sacred Heart University observed how often people on the Milan Metro gave up their seats to a heavily pregnant woman - in control state, 38%. Then, this guy shows up. So when a guy in a full Batman rig was observing, 68% of the time someone gave up their seats - but almost half of those who did didn’t remember seeing him at all. There are two fairly sensible things Prof. Pagnini concluded from this fun little experiment: Unexpected events can jerk people out of their small, self-absorbed world (in this case, doomscroll or tube-zombie states) to become more active participants in the world, and attuned to the social cues and needs of others. The appearance of someone known for good deeds, even if they take no action themselves, can "prime" people towards prosocial behaviour. https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/batman-effect-only-superhero-view-makes-us-more-altruistic-AH1WzerD

Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

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Fire Inc - Nowhere Fast

New Khan was a fun twist, but the mighty scenery chewing Ricardo Montalban is a hard act to follow. More to the point, the final act of that movie didn’t stick the landing as well as the original (metaphorically and literally, I guess…) As to m’learned coll’ SW’s point; it is a fine balancing act to introduce a new cast of characters and have you care about then in 120 minutes, while still making it sci-fi. And it’s do-able, if you focus on character. The advantage you’ve got as a writer in this scenario is the worldbuilding is already done, and there’s no reason you can’t namecheck or cameo existing characters. I’m thinking about Tim Zahn’s Brainy Smurf… sorry, Thrawn trilogy, which followed on from ROTJ, picked up on the lore and ran with it. Smurfy Boi, Mara and friends were so compelling that they became part of the fabric of the galaxy. And then other people picked up and ran with them.

Small update: Per Deadline, Season 2 is greenlit - plus a creator deal extension with FX for Noah Hawley. Production is moving to London, so I guess we call this AvC*. https://deadline.com/2025/11/alien-earth-renewed-season-2-noah-hawley-reups-fx-deal-1236614596/ *Alien Versus Cockneys. Cor blimey guv'nor, lookin' a bit peaky there with that 'angin out yer Dickie Dirt now ain'tcha...