Pop links: Build your own Batcave, Batman LP covers, Eleanor Rigby revealed, DVD deal on Pixar films

Via the 1966 Batman Message Board: An Arizona company that specializes in installing secret passage ways in people's homes (doesn't everyone need one?) says one of its most popular items is a Shakespeare bust that triggers a bookcase to slide open--just like on the Batman TV show! Cool. I wonder what the current economic downturn is doing to that business now, though. Could be bad. On the other hand, maybe more people are installing secret rooms to hide their cash.

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More Batman: Via LP Cover Lover.

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And here's a link to more info about Batman-inspired music.

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Paul McCartney has given a charity documents he procured that provide information about Liverpool's real Eleanor Rigby.

McCartney donated a hospital accounts log from Liverpool's City Hospital to the Sunbeam Trust charity, which revealed that an E. Rigby was a scullery maid who worked at the hospital.

McCartney had previously suggested that he came up with the name Eleanor for use in the song because of The Beatles' association with actress Eleanor Bron, who appeared in their film 'Help!'.

However, the document, along with the discovery of a grave marked Eleanor Rigby in Peter's Parish in the Woolton area of Liverpool in the 1980s, has caused some to suggest that Rigby may have been a real person known to McCartney, who wrote the song.


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Those Fabulous Fifties shares a few of Al Jaffe's rare "Tall Tales" comic strip.

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A sculpture by Tony Dow, who played the Beav's big brother Wally on "Leave it to Beaver," will be displayed in the Louvre--you know, the place where they keep the Mona Lisa...

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Newsarama takes a look at the history of James Bond comic books.

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Today's deal alert:

1 comment:

  1. I don't know what some Beatles fans are smoking -- well, okay, I can make a good guess -- but the real Eleanor Rigby was born in 1895 and died in 1939, three years before Paul was born.

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