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05-15-2007, 06:49 PM
#721
Pièce de Résistance
Spielberg 'to make Tintin movie'
Steven Spielberg and The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson are to bring Tintin to the big screen, according to industry reports. Movie publication Variety reports that a three feature deal has been struck, with the pair directing one each and the third still to be decided.
Jackson's special effects team Weta Digital will use 3-D animation to bring the junior reporter to life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6656635.stm
Will be looking forward to this one; grew up reading Tintin comics.
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05-16-2007, 07:59 AM
#722
Ditsy Pixie
I loved TinTin growing up! But i see that as an odd collaberation!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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05-16-2007, 04:54 PM
#723
Lady of Smilies
Tintin? poor actor will have one sore head after getting bashed enough times
I loved captain Haddock and Johnson and Johnson they always made me think of baby products...
Umm is it animated then? Oh I dont really like digital animations I might skip it.
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05-16-2007, 07:03 PM
#724
Ol' Fartsy
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05-17-2007, 07:28 PM
#725
Pièce de Résistance
Mother offered in internet swap
A woman in China has offered to marry off her cancer-stricken mother to anyone who can pay her medical bills. Du Chunmei says she cannot afford the $6,000 of treatment and believes it is the only way to save her mother's life.
She has put an advert online saying: "I post this message in desperation. If anyone could pay for my mother's treatment, I'll marry her to you."
Her appeal, which she says has her mother's approval, has captured the public's attention in China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/6665457.stm
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05-18-2007, 05:25 AM
#726
Ditsy Pixie
Originally Posted by
Wizard272002
Thats a Joke! The kid cant even walk! Whats wrong with people these days! there really should be an age limit of a gun licence. No wonder some parts of America are the way the are!(Sorry if i offend by american friends)
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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05-21-2007, 09:12 AM
#727
Pièce de Résistance
Hundreds view 'sweating' statue
Hundreds of Hindus in Nepal are flocking to see a statue of a deity which is said to be "sweating". Devotees believe the apparant perspiration is a sign of impending turmoil or natural disaster.
The statue of the Hindu God of trade and commerce, Bhimeshwor, has reportedly been sweating since Saturday.
The statue is located in Dolakha district, 70km (43 miles) east of the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6676775.stm
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05-28-2007, 05:21 PM
#728
laudator temporis acti
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
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05-28-2007, 05:37 PM
#729
Watcher by Night
Incredible--I kept wondering about all the early stuff he might have had, Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, pulps(??), Sabatinis, Haggards, etc. Surely Terhune was in there. Used book stores have always been a tough sell but I rarely toss a book and try to find a home for it. My library isn't much but I'm sure my oldest son will appreciate most of them and Tim Bookery Fantasy would take them. Still looking casually for grace Livingston Hill hardcovers for the long suffering wife--she has about half of them (50 or so) on a bookshelf whose space I covet. Now if she would just read them. Sigh.
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05-28-2007, 07:15 PM
#730
Fights like a cow
Burning books...what an idiot!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/...s/book_burning
I'm sorry to have posted such thing in a forum that would be sensitive to it, but my anger and frustration have to be shared. Say what you will, that guy is insane!
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05-28-2007, 07:19 PM
#731
What would you have him do with them? He needs to make space & attempts to give them away, but no-one will take them. So he burns them in protest - they were to be disposed of in some way (would you have preferred he just threw them out?) at least he has made a statement.
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
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05-28-2007, 07:26 PM
#732
veni vidi vixi
Baka! He shuold have posted a notice in the internet, I'm sure a bunch of bibliophiles (including me) would've bought his books or taken then. Burning books is a horrendous crime! Almost as horrifiying as murder!
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05-28-2007, 07:28 PM
#733
Fights like a cow
Nah nah nah, kilted, this is no way to make a statement. I'm sure that if he tried harder to get rid of them he would've. I second what Bakiru said, and like him I would've taken his entire collection gladly! (understatement)
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05-28-2007, 07:41 PM
#734
Super
Originally Posted by
Fango
Nah nah nah, kilted, this is no way to make a statement. I'm sure that if he tried harder to get rid of them he would've. I second what Bakiru said, and like him I would've taken his entire collection gladly! (understatement)
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05-28-2007, 11:08 PM
#735
laudator temporis acti
All those books! I wouldn't have wanted all of them but the ones like the 1910 one would have been lovely! *groans loudly*
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
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