I was wrong so many years ago.
I thought Heath Ledger’s accolades for his last performance as the Joker in the Dark Night Returns were unwarranted. Via BoingBoing.
Entertainment
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Apr 12
Topher Grace’s Star Wars III.5: The Editor Strikes Back
I’m not quite sure how I missed this being as it was everywhere circa early-March on plenty of sites I frequent like BoingBoing, AVClub, and WaPo.
It appears that Topher Grace [IMDB] took the three Star Wars prequels, a smattering of content from other sources like the Clone Wars animated series, an audio book, and the original trilogy, and ruthlessly excised superfluous content, distilling the 7-hour opus into a concise 85-minutes.
SlashFilm’s Peter Sciretta details the edits. The explanation leads one to believe that Grace trimmed the fat while leaving the meat on the bone, whereas Lucas continually packed both trilogies with increasing amounts of ‘pink slime’, to the extent that the original theater releases of the original trilogy cannot be purchased.
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Mar 12
Using Twitter Tools on this here blog?
I’ve been using the Twitter Tools (a WordPress plugin by Alex King) to push post to Twitter. I’ve tried out using it in reverse – taking Tweets and making a daily post displayed as a digest. Eh. No more.
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Feb 12
Playing with your heartstrings…
This WSJ piece on how Adele plays with your heart reminded me of the Rivers Cuomo’s Encyclopedia of Pop (gated at Rolling Stone, but can be found here).