Pop Culture Roundup Aug. 2, 2007

Remembering Bergman and Antonioni, Bedazzled presents vintage posters and lobby cards for some of their best-known films, including "Persona" and "Blow Up."

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Batman and Wonder Woman may be the subjects of DC Comics' next straight-to-DVD animated films.

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Brian Wilson is performing a new "song cycle" in concert.

Wilson says the piece "will consist of five 'rounds' with interspersed spoken word". It is based on the classic 1949 song 'That Lucky Old Sun', and though the new song suite will contain elements of the tune, there will also be newly composed songs too, one of which is called 'Midnight's Another Day'.

The work was put together with Wilson's old collaborator Van Dyke Parks, who wrote the lyrics for the seminal 'Smile' album.


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The Absorbacon digs IDW Publishing's new Star Trek "season 4" comic book.

...the first issue is quite traditional; it really does read almost like a "lost episode".

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Dean Cain, who played Superman on "Lois and Clark," is visiting "Smallville," reports Ain't It Cool.

He'll play "the murderous Dr. Curtis Knox (who may or may not be Vandal Savage).”

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Entertainment Weekly chats with "Buffy" creator Joss Whedon about some upcoming projects, including:

...a 90-minute TV movie for the BBC about Buffy's watcher, Giles; Goners, his original movie for Universal that's still in development and presently in rewrites; Cabin in the Woods, a horror movie coscripted with Drew Goddard (Cloverfield) that he's shopping around; and two comics, a Buffy ''season 9'' story arc and a Serenity miniseries.

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James Bond fans may be interested in this:

"The Battle For Bond" by Robert Sellers

Cinema history might have been very different had the first James Bond film not been Dr. No in 1962 starring Sean Connery, but Thunderball directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1959 and starring Richard Burton as agent 007. It sounds preposterous and unbelievable, but it almost happened. The Battle for Bond unravels the untold story behind the most controversial part of the James Bond legend using previously unpublished material including letters and private documents.

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