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Pop Culture Roundup June 8, 2007

Don't look for Sean Connery in the next Indiana Jones film.

"I get asked the question so often, I thought it best to make an announcement," the 76-year-old actor said. "I thought long and hard about it, and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film. I love working with [director] Steven [Spielberg] and [producer] George [Lucas], and it goes without saying that it is an honor to have Harrison [Ford] as my son. But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun."

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Comics historian and Steve Ditko expert Blake Bell has details on the upcoming "Amazing Fantasy Omnibus" from Marvel, which collect a whole mess of monster comics from the publisher's pre-superhero days. You can pre-order the book now from Amazon: Regular edition or variant cover.

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A 40th anniversary eidtion of Pink Floyd's debut album Piper at the Gates of Dawn is due out Aug. 28.

The packaging, designed by Storm Thorgerson, resembles a cloth-covered book, and holds 3 CD discs, along with a 12-page reproduction Syd Barrett notebook.
CD Contents

Discs 1 and 2 will contain the full 'Piper' album, represented in both stereo and mono versions. Both have been newly remastered by James Guthrie.

Disc 3 includes bonus tracks, including the following: all the Pink Floyd singles from 1967, ('Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play', and 'Apples And Oranges'), plus the B sides 'Candy And A Current Bun' and 'Paintbox'.

Other tracks are a version of 'Interstellar Overdrive' - Take 2 of the original recording sessions, previously only available on an EP in France - and the 1967 stereo version of 'Apples And Oranges'.

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