Booksteve pays tribute to late Beatles' recording engineer, and a recording star in his own right, Norman "Hurricane" Smith.
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The BBC is working to restore color (or "colour," as they like to spell it) to several Jon Pertwee-era "Doctor Who" stories that exist only in black-and-white copies, The Guardian reports.
The original master tapes of many shows were erased during archive purges. However, before wiping, many were copied on to black and white 16mm film for broadcast in countries where colour television was not yet available. Today, it is these black and white films that survive as the only visual records of some of these programmes.
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Variety reviews the new "Spectacular Spider-Man" cartoon, which debuts this Saturday on the CW.
There is action aplenty in this premiere -- enough to satisfy grownup comics aficionados, with Spider-Man fighting traditional enemy the Vulture as well as the Enforcers, a group of assassins unleashed upon him by an unidentified crime lord. The result is an aerial battle brought to life with reasonably impressive and fluid animation. The main drawback is a relentless score seemingly predicated on the notion that modern kids are either 80% deaf -- or should be after watching TV. (Some older folks may find themselves sorely missing the old animated "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does whatever a spider can" theme.)
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