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Sung by the late Gene Wilder (1933~2016) Now on the Sampo TV. Model #9519.
A fun new thing I did for @danagould: a live reading of I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE with Maria Bamford, Bobcat a Goldthwait, Laraine Newman, Jonah Ray, Janet Varney and Gary Anthony Williams at Largo in Los Angeles. Go see it!
In 1963, two teachers in England got concerned about one of their students and followed her home to what appeared to be a junkyard. They followed her into what appeared to be a police box, but in actuality turned out to be a time/space machine called the TARDIS. They learned that the girl, named Susan, and her grandfather, known as the Doctor, were not human at all but aliens. The Doctor (Doctor 1), upset by their intrusion took them back to 100,000 BC. ("An Unearthly Child", Doctor Who, vlm 1 TV)
Meet Joe Black is a 1998 film directed by Martin Brest, a remake of the 1933 film Death Takes a Holiday, previously revived in 1971 with the same name as the original. The film is inspired by the theatrical comedy of the same name by Alberto Casella, which tells of the legends about his summer villa - Villa Josephine, nicknamed the "cursed villa" - in Rocchetta Cairo.
Death came to Earth because he was intrigued by the emotions regarding love praised by Bill, which he will take with him at the end of the journey.
Meanwhile, Bill is ousted from the board of directors of his company by Drew, Susan's ex-boyfriend, who wants to merge with another company.
Filming of the film took place mainly in New York, USA.
The film's soundtrack, whose main theme is Whisper of a Thrill, was composed by Thomas Newman.
The film was released in US cinemas on November 13, 1998 and in Italy on January 29, 1999.
In addition to the full version of the film lasting approximately three hours, a short version was made for television and airline. Because of this modification of the film, which did not involve the majority of Bill Parrish's business, the director, Martin Brest, became very furious, so much so that he signed this version of the feature film with the nickname often used by disgruntled directors, Alan Smithee.
Roger Ebert gave the film three stars, but disliked the marginal plot and overly forced ending. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film four stars, but criticized the lack of depth of most of the characters.
On the site Rotten Tomatoes the film obtained a 46% approval rating from critics based on 50 professional reviews, calling it "glacially slow and not at all eventful" (the site's critical consensus reads: "Meet Joe Black is beautiful to watch and benefits from a likable cast, but that's not enough to make up for the punishing three-hour running time of this sluggish drama."
On IMDb the film was received with 7.2/10.
With an estimated budget of $90,000,000, the film grossed $142,940,096 worldwide. In Italy the film grossed €6,000,000.
What a pleasure to come across "The Lost Tapes" - a collection of demos that chronicle the only output of the band Mad Anthony. Read the entire write-up on Bandcamp to get all the details - but essentially Mad Anthony member John Schwab's son, Ben, (himself a member of Drugdealer and Sylvie) convinced his Dad and other members to let these recordings be heard publicly 40 years after they were made.
The songs sound like the bands they covered when they started out in Ohio: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills and Nash and Jackson Browne. I can't help but also think of Randy Newman. This recording was made in the San Fernando Valley (Southern California).
And finally, this made me think of an album I was listening to and enjoying but couldn't post because there is no physical release: Anna McClellan's "off my chest: 2012-2021".
Mad Anthony is being released by Earth Libraries - an incredibly diverse label based in Birmingham, Alabama.
The category of the "worker," defined in the strict Marxian economic sense, and politically constituted through the revolutionary vanguard whose goal was the dictatorship of the proletariat, no longer seems viable.
Despite being voted the longest-running science fiction television series of all time, very little has been written about the early years of Dr WHO. But, at last, we have uncovered the secret history of TV’s venerable Timelord traveller in time/space. Let’s time-skip back more than 47 years to the nineteen hundred and sixties…
It begins with a feisty Canadian firebrand called Syd Numan who…