Pop Culture Roundup March 3, 2006

Via the Brill Building: Monty Python interview footage not seen since 1975. Are we all watching the great Python "personal best" specials now airing on PBS?

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From Graphic Novelties: A conservative parents watchdog group has singled out "Teen Titans" as the most violent children's show on TV. I watch the progam, happily, with my son don't see much objectionable about it. The violence doesn't seem any worse than anything else in the genre and the plots nearly always have a "good message" about friendship, feeling good about yourself and doing what's right. Plus, the dialogue and plotlines are quite witty and imaginative. Which is probably why the conservatives really don't like it.

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Also from Graphic Novelties (Franklin Harris' newest blog, if you haven't checked it out): George Clooney says he played Batman as gay in "Batman in Robin." Well, I suppose he had to do something to make the lackluster script interesting for himself.

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Via a new sharity blog dedicated to the late Byrds' singer Gene Clark, some rare Byrds.

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Dial B for Blog's profanity laced review/evisceration of DC Comics' "Infinite Crisis" #5 just made me spew coffee out my nose.

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Via Mark Evanier: The Southern Poverty Law Center posts a review of Will Eisner's last graphic novel, "The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

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Another cool albeit obsessive sharity compilation from Xtabay: 19 versions of "Hey Joe" from the Byrds, Hendrix and Love to the Standalls, Shadows of Knight and Surfaris.

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James Bond is going to drive a Ford?!

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Personal File, due out in May, is a two-CD set of tunes, poems and stories Johnny Cash recorded in his home studio in the early 1970s, according to Rolling Stone. Sounds like great stuff:

He sang Tin Pan Alley hits, traditional folk and gospel tunes, new originals and favorite covers by the Louvin Brothers and Johnny Horton, among others. He recited poetry and reminisced about his teenage job as a water boy on a river-dredging crew and the hours he spent glued to the radio, loving and learning the very songs he sang in these sessions.

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Folk singer Pete Seeger is the inspiration behind Bruce Springsteen's upcoming covers album.

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Paul McCartney's campaign to save cute baby seals from being bludgeoned on Canada's east coast is meeting with some controversy, reports The Guardian. However, most people seem to support his efforts:

A poll in the Daily News, a local paper based in Halifax, near Prince Edward Island, suggests the animal rights campaign could be winning.

According to the online survey, 59% of people favour banning the hunt while 32% think it should continue; 9%, meanwhile, feel that "the Beatles suck".

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