Pop Culture Roundup: Sub-Mariner! Bernard Cornwell! Pinocchio! Beatles! Theremin! ROM: Space Knight!

Swim with Namor, via Longbox Graveyard:

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 The BBC is planning a TV series based on Bernard Cornwell's "Saxson Stories" novels - sort of a "Games of Thrones" with vikings.

Set in the year 872, when many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Vikings, the great kingdom of Wessex has been left standing alone and defiant under the command of King Alfred the Great. Against this turbulent backdrop lives “The Last Kingdom’s” hero, Uhtred. Born the son of a Saxon nobleman, he is orphaned by the Vikings and then kidnapped and raised as one of their own. Forced to choose between the country of his birth and the people of his upbringing, his loyalties are ever tested. What is he — Saxon or Viking? On a quest to claim his birthright, Uhtred must tread a dangerous path between both sides if he is to play his part in the birth of a new nation and, ultimately, seek to recapture his ancestral lands.
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Richard Percy Jones, who voiced Pinocchio in the Disney classic, passed away this week at age 87,
Jones turned 10 in 1937, the year Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White, came to theaters. Until then, he was billed onscreen as “Dickie” Jones. Afterward, he shortened it to the more grown-up “Dick,” but he will forever be remembered for the boy he voiced in Disney’s second animated feature, in 1940, Pinocchio.
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Mojo mag checks out the upcoming mono Beatles LPs and likes what it hears.
We’re sitting in Abbey Road Studio 3, listening to a Beatles song we’ve heard hundreds of times, a Beatles song we’re not even especially fond of, and we’re tuning into things we’re sure we’ve never heard before; the hum of the acoustic guitar’s steel strings, a frail clarity to McCartney’s voice and an odd sort of reverb that acts as a bridge between vocals and strings. Yesterday has never sounded this good.
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Via BoingBoing, hear the score to "The Day the Earth Stood Still."



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Via Calvin's Cave of Cool: ROM: Space Knight Mighty Mugg! It's exclusive to Comicon in San Diego.

1 comment:

  1. Don't know if you are watching the CNN Special on The 60's but it's been pretty good. It encompasses music, politics, racial reform, and starts out with early TV. Last night episode was on the Beatles/British Invasion and although I'd seen most of it previously, still enjoyable to watch again. It's produced by Tom Hanks.

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