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I don’t want to sink into the intellectual laziness that is “all Americans should be banned from playing Brits” but just this once I’ll make an exception. What is going on with the world when Anne Hathaway (of The Princess Diaries) is to play Jane Austen?
So Peter Weller, who was so big in the 80s as Buckaroo Banzai and eventually Robocop, has returned once again to the small screen as Jack Bauer’s CTU recruitment officer in 24. It’s a nice performance and you could well imagine him as a match for RoboJack, unlike most of 24‘s previous enemies.
So I checked out Weller’s IMDB page to find out what he’s been doing over the years. Turns out he really is Buckaroo Banzai. Not only does he play in a band with Jeff Goldblum, he actually teaches a literature and fine arts class at Syracuse University and can be seen on The History Channel’s new documentary on Roman engineering. As if that weren’t enough, he holds a master’s degree in Roman and Renaissance art and is working toward a Ph.D.
No doubt, if we ever make it to the eighth dimension, we’ll be able to thank Weller.
For anyone interested, there’s a free Wallace and Gromit video available for viewing on Salon. It appears on the Curse of the Were-Rabbit DVD and was part of BBC1’s 2002 series Cracking Contraptions. Enjoy!
Vaguely amusing piece on Salon on how the Oscars have come to celebrate worthy films, rather than film excellence.
There’s a trailer for the animé Earthsea movie Gedo Senki online at catsuka.com. I have to say, it looks pretty awful. Don’t go looking for something that’s authentic to the book, whatever you do, because you’re definitely not going to get it.
But yet another Aryan Ged? Surely not. Okay, that’s the animé way, but would it have hurt them much to change it, just this once? How many times does Ursula K have to point out that Ged’s native American-looking, Vetch is black, etc, before people get it?
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