Pop Culture Roundup Jan. 2, 2007

Ian McKellen will serve as the off-screen narrator for "Stardust," a fantasy film based on the Neil Gaiman comic series. The cast includes Claire Danes, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.

The film centers on a young man who promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the Faerie realm, where he encounters witches, goblins, gnomes, talking animals and evil trees.

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Work on the fourth Indiana Jones film starts soon, says George Lucas.

The fourth chapter of the Indiana Jones saga, which will hit theaters in May 2008, has been in development for over a decade with several screenwriters taking a crack at the script, but it only recently gained momentum.

Lucas kept mum about the plot, but said that the latest action flick will be a "character piece" that will include "very interesting mysteries."

"I think it's going to be really cool," Lucas said.


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"Heroes" star Masi Oka will bring along a special sneak preview of the show's back-from-hiatus Jan. 22 when he appears on the Jay Leno show tomorrow night.

The actor will show a preview of the episode titled "Godsend," guest-starring former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston as a mysterious man whose special power is hinted at in his name—Claude.

Best "Heroes" Sites.

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We've heard him wail on "The Star Spangled Banner," but did Jimi Hendrix record the Welsh national anthem?

The version of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, Land of My Fathers, was discovered on the end of a dusty eight-track tape which had languished for years in a forgotten tea chest in a north London recording studio.

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