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Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy’s dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires!
Yuki is attacked by another pureblood outside a graveyard for meddling in the ways of the vampire society. Injured, she returns home to Kaname, who shares with her his past memories and the truth behind the Kuran family.
Review:
Gah! Sometimes I get so confused when I read Vampire Knight. I think that the key to understanding it is right in front of me, but when I sit back and try to analyze the story in more depth, my head starts to spin. Seriously. If it wasn’t for the pretty, pretty pictures, I would be so frustrated with this series!
I don’t want to divulge any spoilers, so I’ll keep my discussion of this volume very general, and focus more on how it made me feel, instead getting into the nitty-gritty details of the plot. Yuki and Aido are attacked by another pureblood, and they are saved by Zero. Now, I know in the past I have bashed Zero, but in this outing, I actually liked him again. I think my affection for Zero rises and declines with my feelings for Kaname. When I am soft on Kaname, I am tough on Zero, Well, in this volume, I don’t feel as though I know Kaname anymore, and in this confusion, I have gravitated back to Zero. Zero’s motivations aren’t as difficult to understand, and I don’t feel that he’s selfishly working toward some unknown goals to benefit himself. I do feel that way about Kaname now, and I don’t like it! Kaname, I just don’t trust you anymore! You have become a stranger to me!
So, after having everything that I believed to be true about Kaname blown to itty-bitty bits, I wandered along with Yuki as she treads cautiously through Kaname’s memories. His past is a lot different from what I thought it would be, and if I were him, I would be running around, tearing out the throats of whatever humans I ran across. Kaname is made of sterner stuff, so it’s a good thing I don’t have the ability to turn anyone into a hapless vampire slave. I’d make them clean my bathrooms just for fun, and then make them clean all of the dirty dishes in the sink, too. Watching his memories with Yuki, it’s no wonder he rarely cracks a smile; those are some grim thoughts to carry around with you for all of that time.
Poor Aido, one of my favorite characters, has found himself a “guest” of the Hunters. Both Yuki and Kaname ditched him, leaving him at Zero’s not so tender mercies. At least their exchange made perfect sense, and shed some light on the creation of the Hunter Society.
Now, I think that if I sat down and reread Vampire Knight, back to back, it would make more sense. Part of the problem with reading a serial is that it’s easy to forget key elements of the story during the three or four months between volumes. I read volume 12 back in May, so I’m sure that I have forgotten important plot points. Despite the fact that I occasion
We haven’t been covering this story because, frankly, everyone else has, and also it’s just sad. The rampant speculation and tasteless grandstanding following the young actor’s death is typical and yet the accelerated pace in the internet era makes it even more instantaneous and unavoidable. Nonetheless, a few notes that are germane to the topics of this website:
• Warner’s Dark Knight movie site, which had been rolling out a viral marketing campaign using Ledger’s Joker character, has gone to a simple tribute to the actor,
• While Ledger’s entire , no one is saying how much ADR work had to be done, EW reports.
Dark Knight director Chris Nolan and execs at Warner Bros., the studio releasing the film, were not available for comment, and have not issued any public statements about the status of the movie. EW placed a call to Oscar-winning sound designer and sound editor Richard King, who’s handling the Dark Knight audio work, but he declined to comment. According to several other sound-mixing experts who also declined to speak on the record, there’s no way to tell what the situation is with Dark Knight from the outside, since the amount of ADR required, and the timetable for doing it, varies wildly between films. (In plenty of instances, looping is not completed until very close to the final release date, perhaps as little as a month or two out.)
“Warners are in a difficult position. Initially they wanted to capitalize on the early buzz that has surrounded Heath’s performance,” Bock told AFP. “Now they’re going to have to do a 180 from that.”
While the death of an actor before a film’s release is not unknown, with famous examples being 1994’s “The Crow”, starring the late Brandon Lee, and 1956’s “Giant”, released a year after James Dean’s death, the situation with “The Dark Knight” was unprecedented in the modern era, Bock said.
“This is something we’ve never seen before,” he said. “On the one hand they have to pay tribute to Heath and the performance that he gives, but on the other hand this is going to be one of the biggest films of the summer.
• Ledger’s final film was with director Terry Gilliam, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Major shooting had been completed but much SFX work remained to be shot in Vancouver. It’s not the first time a Gilliam film has been plagued by tragedies and accidents. The film’s future remains very much up in the air.
• And finally, in the most enigmatic note, when former Joker Jack Nicholson was apprised of Ledger’s death (by papparazzi), he muttered, “I warned him.” Which doesn’t mean anything at all really, except where the Joker is concerned, you should always go out on a mystery. You can watch a video of the comment here.
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It seems that Kiwi Karl Urban, who will portray young Doctor McCoy in J.J. Abrams upcoming STAR TREK XI movie, didn’t have to be persuaded to take the role: he’s a lifelong STAR TREK fan and actively went after the role:
Well, I’ve been watching Star Trek since I was, oh gosh, seven years old so I was very familiar with the original series and with those characters. I didn’t actually even have to go out of my way to re-watch old episodes. I’ve just been watching them for over 20 years!
Urban also reveals that his time signing autographs at SF cons was well spent, as he avoids the use of the pejorative term “Trekkie:”
I just will say that the project as a whole is very faithful to the original series and I think that J.J. has a very fresh and exciting approach and I think that he’s an incredibly talented visionary. I believe that he is going to reinvigorate this franchise in a really healthy, positive and exciting way. I really think that the Trekkers and the long time fans will be really pleased with it, because it really does honor the very spirit of what we are all really quite crazy about, in a good way.
Looks like its time to rev up our Karl Urban programme here at SBM!
1 Comments on Karl Urban: trekker, last added: 1/15/2008
We don’t watch HEROES all that often, but it seems that Claire and Peter are dating…or Hayden Panetierre and Milo Ventimiglia are. They denied it for months, but this photo of the pair wandering through a mall holding hands was the smoking gun, so to speak. Not that just holding hands necessarily means that a couple is knocking boots, but we think you’ll agree they certainly look like they WANT to.
Anyway, like we said, we’re weak in Heroes-fu, so we have no idea how shocking this is.
We know one thing: they both have names that are hard to spell.
20 Comments on Superheroes dating, last added: 1/13/2008
Hmmm.
Milo is well in his 20’s. Hayden just turned 18. Months of rumors and now, they are photographed together, safe from Hollywood’s laws that Roman Polanski knows sooo well.
Looks like Milo avoided a trip to France, FOREVER, Naughty , naughty.
Tommy Raiko said, on 1/8/2008 6:12:00 AM
Need a celebrity romance to follow now that Evangeline Lily and Dominic Monaghan split up, do we?
Steve said, on 1/8/2008 6:24:00 AM
Anyway, like we said, we’re weak in Heroes-fu, so we have no idea how shocking this is.
Well, he does play her uncle on the show, if memory serves, so it’s kinda weird from that angle…
Nate said, on 1/8/2008 6:25:00 AM
Milo Ventimiglia is SO hot, it’s just not fair.
Kat Kan said, on 1/8/2008 7:00:00 AM
I wish people would lighten up. So many historical romance novels pair up 17-year-old heroines with 30-something heroes - just go read Georgette Heyer books if you don’t believe me. Sheesh. On top of which, I dated older men (like mid-20s to early-30s) when I was 18 and 19. They were SO much more interesting to talk with than boys my own age. No big deal.
V. Smith said, on 1/8/2008 7:08:00 AM
Incest! I just had to say it. Really, it’s not that big a deal. If no one on the Heroes set went for it, that would be shocking.
Chris said, on 1/8/2008 7:22:00 AM
It’s almost as bad when Greg and Marcia dated in real life.
When he was 12, she was a glimmer in her father’s eye.
Joe Lawler said, on 1/8/2008 8:00:00 AM
Ooops, I guess Steve beat me to it.
Joe Lawler said, on 1/8/2008 8:00:00 AM
It’s made far creepier by the fact that he plays her uncle on Heroes.
Franklin Harris said, on 1/8/2008 9:22:00 AM
We know one thing: they both have names that are hard to spell.
Oh, it’s not that hard to spell Hayden Planetarium.
William Gatevackes said, on 1/8/2008 10:20:00 AM
Well, despite the fact that he is 66% older than she is, she just recently turned 18. This creates the image of Milo, who has worked with Hayden for almost 3 years, marking a calendar with a black Sharpie each day Hayden got closer to legality.
Not that that actually happened, mind you, but it is an image. A creepy one at that.
Torsten Adair said, on 1/8/2008 10:52:00 AM
No more shocking than Barry Williams and Florence Henderson…
Or Prince Charles and Lady Diana. And maybe they just have a close, friendly working relationship… a really close, very friendly relationship. hmmm… ya think they do flash fiction behind closed doors? kinda like that batman urban legend? “This time I get to rescue you!”
Jennifer de Guzman said, on 1/8/2008 11:11:00 AM
Well, for one thing it is not the 19th century. Cultural norms about age differences have changed, as have expectations for romantic relationships. It was kind of OK for your husband/beau/whatever to take a paternalistic attitude about you back then; now that men and women are supposed to be equal partners, most women would not stand for her husband considering himself his guardian, as was the case then. (And holding up Prince Charles and Diana as a relationship? Yeesh. The poor girl was hand-picked because she was a virgin and young and naive — the royal family thought she would be easy to mold and control.)
Here’s the thing I think about when I see a 30-year-old man dating an 18-year-old girl: Sure, 30-year-old men are more interesting than 18-year-old boys, but doesn’t it work the other way around, too? What does a 30-year-old man see in a girl twelve years his junior? Is he emotionally stunted? Using her? Girls who have older guys who are into them often play that “He’s so much more interesting” card, but they don’t understand that often the older guy is, consciously or unconsciously, using them because they are young and easier to manipulate.
I can’t believe I’ve written this much about this. It’s the influence of Jezebel, that insidious Gawker blog.
Jennifer de Guzman said, on 1/8/2008 11:13:00 AM
“considering himself HER guardian,” that is.
Jason A. Quest said, on 1/8/2008 6:58:00 PM
If only I were an 18-year-old girl again…
Rob said, on 1/8/2008 10:53:00 PM
Those of us who are Gilmore Girls fan decided awhile ago that the 26-year-old Alexis Bledel must have been too old for the 30-year-old Milo.
— Rob, 37yo SWM considers 40yo Lauren Graham the right age for him (And he still thinks of Hayden as Ally McBeal’s daughter.)
ObComics: I wish Ty Templeton wrote and drew a Gilmore Girls series for . . . well, Gg parent studio Warner’s corporate sibling DC if DC had any clue how to market to women
Tom Spurgeon said, on 1/8/2008 11:07:00 PM
I don’t know if comics culture samples weird on this question or what, but dating in all sorts of different age groups is pretty common for my single friends, especially as they date over time. I’m not sure why anyone would have to go across the ocean or two centuries back for examples.
I wish this handsome TV actor couple all the happiness in the world that doesn’t involve me having to watch their dumbass show.
Garret Groenveld said, on 1/10/2008 5:10:00 PM
Just imagine if little Hayden marries Big old Milo and hyphenates, they’ll never be able to fit all the letters on her credit card…
Zoe said, on 1/11/2008 2:17:00 AM
So there’s an age difference? Check out a similar article at dailycents.com about Cougars, a direct link to the article is http://blogs.dailycents.com/?p=791
wordpress tutorial said, on 1/13/2008 12:44:00 AM
I love celeb romances. And, Hayden is cute! I never understand why the celebs like to deny fact. In the end we all find out anyway. And with all the paparazzi in LA it just makes them hungrier to “get the picture.” If the celebs just came out I think they would have less problems with their private lives and the paparazzi. Just my two cents.
Speaking of Endor, that sort of weird foresty place where the Ewoks frolic and enjoy each other’s company, right-to-work laws, and a ban on gay marriage, who’d have ever thought Wicket, a Republican true believer in The Force, could ever have risen to lead such a traditionally Democratic tribe? I mean, it’s inspirational that he lost 105 pounds (he only weighs about 45 now!) and plays the bass, but can you really imagine introducing him to the UN General Assembly? “Ladies and Gentlemen, President Wicket!” How ridiculous. I don’t think so.
NEXT, Marc Bernadin at EW points out some similarities between Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and Edward Norton as Bruce Banner:
Apparently, Marvel superheroes are prone to wearing wifebeaters when making quasi-scientific advances.
Actually, we are told that Marvel employs the same trainer for all their superhero movies, which is one reason for the wifebeater look. Either that or Marvel Studios head Michael Helfant just has some kind of fetish.
5 Comments on Separated at birth Two-fer, last added: 1/8/2008
I always thought ‘wifebeaters’ meant mesh t-shirts, not undershirts without sleeves.
Matthew Craig said, on 1/8/2008 5:24:00 AM
“undershirts without sleeves”
You mean “vest?”
//\Oo/\
neeb said, on 1/8/2008 5:26:00 AM
All I wanna know is, which candidate is closest to Ice Cream Maker Guy?
Chris said, on 1/8/2008 7:23:00 AM
They should have Hank Pym cameo in both movies wearing a wifebeater.
michael said, on 1/8/2008 4:07:00 PM
Poorly deluded AL…
Any man who wears a mesh teeshirt will not even have a wife in the first place. They will be too busy being the bisexual hanging out in the clubs doing the x.
One sour note from the past month (aside from my car getting hit yet again) is that Mr. Stephen Colbert has decided not to reprise his role as Professor Impossible this season, for reasons which probably have something to do with him being all super-famous, super-busy, and no longer in need of a few hundred bucks here and there. We figured this would happen eventually, considering his monumental success in the years since our first season, but we held out hope that the WGA strike would leave him with enough bored free time on his hands that he’d have a go at it. But after getting shuffled around from his assistant to his assistant’s assistant to his agent to his manager, one of them finally shot us an email saying: “Stephen has neither the time nor the interest in participating in your project.”
Was the “nor the interest” really necessary? I would have bought the “time” part without question, but man…you gotta kick a guy when he’s down like that? Well maybe I’m not interested in your ice cream, mister! Or your book. Unless someone buys it for me for Christmas.
While everyone hopes this was the work of a WGA- Strike-saddened assistant, and not the man himself, it did lead Urbaniak to put Colbert on notice:
Developing.
PS: we recently saw Urbaniak in THE BENTFOOTES, a dance “mockumentary” co-directed by frequent Beat commenter Todd Alcott and choreographer Kriota Willberg, who is married to cartoonist R. Sikoryak, who drew “The Decider” comics for THE DAILY SHOW, which precedes THE COLBERT REPORT. You see how it is all connected? Anyway, THE BENTFOOTES was totally excellent, and we’ll remind everyone when the DVD comes out.
9 Comments on Colbert/Venture feud growing, last added: 1/8/2008
Er, and I guess I have to watch that Venture Bros. Season One DVD set I’ve not yet opened.
And what’s that about Criminal Intent? Was Colbert especially bad?
V. Smith said, on 1/8/2008 7:12:00 AM
What Feud? The guy’s very popular with his show! I’d be sad if they replace him in his role as Mr. Impossible on the Venture Bros, but it’s a role that’s only needed once a season, maybe two. Really, they don’t need it at all!
I’m sure Colbert could find a few hours to record some lines. I think he hasn’t recorded over a page of dialouge in the whole time he’s played that Venture Bros role.
V. Smith said, on 1/8/2008 7:15:00 AM
BTW, WATCH VENTURE BROS!
It’s good.
Chris said, on 1/8/2008 7:43:00 AM
I resigned my membership in the 1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T. Colbert facebook group as a sign of solidarity for The Venture Brothers.
Joe Lawler said, on 1/8/2008 8:05:00 AM
Maybe they could get Steve Carrell to replace him?
Elon Weintraub said, on 1/8/2008 8:52:00 AM
Perspective is off on the Photoshopped signs.
Fanboy Menace said, on 1/8/2008 1:43:00 PM
Venture Bros. is the one of the best shows around at the moment (when we actually get new shows). Colbert is a fool not to stay on board. A FOOL!
;)
michael said, on 1/8/2008 3:59:00 PM
I don’t know how you can bitch about someone not doing your show when there’s only been 2 seasons of show since about 2003.
Daniel Ferranti said, on 1/8/2008 9:04:00 PM
1,000 Strong To Make Stephen T. Colbert Return To Venture Bros.
Become one of the Noble Few (aka The Upside Down Beast Numbers) who join me in politely asking Mr. Colbert to refute the words of his assistant who recently told Venture Bros. creator Jackson Publick he had “neither the time NOR the interest” in returning to his role as Professor Impossible in the astonishingly hilarious Adult Swim cartoon (buy your DVDs NOW).
Kelvin knew about Brandon not being the new Superman for weeks and weeks now, but made a promise to the DC people that he wouldn’t break the story. Variety has now confirmed what we’ve secretly known for a while and Brandon Routh will be replaced in the stand alone sequel by whomever is cast as Superman in the upcoming Justice League of America movie.
While we can’t say we’re not surprised, we do think Routh looked the part and didn’t do a bad thing all things considered. Plus be made a fine butter statue. So…let his name be honored in the Superman Annals if this is true.
14 Comments on Routh goes South as Supes?, last added: 1/8/2008
Super Boot… « In One Ear… said, on 1/4/2008 6:28:00 AM
[…] see myself as a creative explosion ready to be unleashed” « So Very Fat!!! Super Boot… January 4, 2008 Wow. I guess this surprises me. For all my criticisms of the last Supermanfilm, overall, Routh was not a major one. He did a good enough job that I wanted to see him get more comfortable with the role. But apparently Superman will be played by whomever they get for the new JLA movie (does this mean it is going to be live action after all?). […]
That sucks –I really thought he was great in Superman Returns.
C.Allen said, on 1/4/2008 8:14:00 AM
This makes me sad. I considered becoming his stalker, but opted against the hassle of it all. Seriously, though, he was really promising. Damn bloated box office expectations and runaway budgets!
Kyle said, on 1/4/2008 10:06:00 AM
I thought he was good, especially as Clark. I guess someone had to take the fall for the middling box office returns. But the movie’s big problem was that it felt like a coma.
John Green said, on 1/4/2008 10:08:00 AM
Didn’t Routh, and the rest of the cast, have sequels included in their contract for “Returns”? If WB makes a new Supes film without them, won’t they have to buy out those actors? Won’t that sky rocket the budget of this new movie, once again resulting in a film that’s so costly it will be a bomb no matter how well it does in theaters?
Carl Pietrantonio said, on 1/4/2008 10:18:00 AM
I don’t care what anyone else says, but for me, I wish to Rao they would cast Tom Welling right from Smallville. I think he’d do a great job and already has recognition across the country as Kal-El
dave roman said, on 1/4/2008 10:53:00 AM
I actually wanted to see how the team from Superman Returns would have been able to push things farther for sequel. Recasting would feel like starting from scratch.
Jason A. Quest said, on 1/4/2008 11:01:00 AM
I will happily provide a home for that wax replica of Superouth. I’ll be careful with it, I promise!
K said, on 1/4/2008 8:35:00 PM
Ain’t It Cool is saying this rumor is rubbish, for what it’s worth.
E. Verstegen said, on 1/5/2008 3:33:00 PM
I’m surprised that so many on this site thought Routh was good. He seemed only to imitate Christopher Reeves, poorly, but didn’t have the same depth and charisma as Reeves. IMO his acting was terrible. Considering Tom Welling’s excellent performances and identity, he would have made the absolute best Superman if he had been willing and able.
Rebis said, on 1/6/2008 5:25:00 PM
It’s Christopher Reeve, not Reeves. You’d make a better self-styled Superman authority if you knew how to correctly spell the name of the most legendary actor to wear the big red “S.”
V. Smith said, on 1/7/2008 5:48:00 AM
I didn’t want Routh gone. What I did want gone was the plot! Get rid of the kid and the marriage to another guy. What the hell is that? I know that comic book movies tend to go in a different direction than the original work, but aren’t Lois and Clark meant to be together?
Tag said, on 1/8/2008 11:28:00 PM
Carl: I wish to Rao they would cast Tom Welling right from Smallville. I think he’d do a great job and already has recognition across the country as Kal-El
AMEN. If WB knew what they were doing they’d have spun Smallville into the new films (or where they seem to be going now, prepping for Welling’s departure and continuing with van der Voort [sp?] as Supergirl), but they got greedy and thought they could have two Supermans simultaneously. Instead we have two adequate but lackluster renditions. Yay. Thank you, Warners.
And though I don’t think he was atrocious, I was completely nonplussed by Routh as Supes. Whether that’s his doing or the fault of Singer or the script or whatever, I was not feeling it. Kevin Spacey was really the only part of that film that hit the nail on the head; I say keep him and jettison all else. Quit trying to recreate the glory of the Chris Reeve flicks; if you don’t have something new to say with the mythos, leave it alone.
I compared it to the back of some dragon books I carry at my store and I can tell it’s:
The Book of The Dragon by Ciruelo
isbn 1402728115
Matthew Craig said, on 12/17/2007 3:02:00 PM
Unfortunate book placement: middle shelf!
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Peter S said, on 12/17/2007 3:50:00 PM
If he goes near the Azumanga Daioh girls I’ll kill him.
Brian Spence said, on 12/17/2007 6:17:00 PM
yeah, ‘cuz if Michael Jackson read yaoi, that would make him some kind of weirdo
James A. Owen said, on 12/17/2007 6:36:00 PM
On the one hand, I’m happy Jamie was wrong.
And on the other hand, I’m happy Jamie was wrong.
Fanboy Menace said, on 12/17/2007 7:26:00 PM
I think it has been pretty evident since the “Scream” video that the man has been trying to transform himself into a living anime character.
rhinolink said, on 12/17/2007 8:58:00 PM
For anyone that shares his interest in Manga the COOLEST action figures and collectibles ever are @ CatalogCourt.net.
DickMcVengeance said, on 12/17/2007 9:24:00 PM
I hate to point this out, but this picture is photoshopped. We got the same tip over at Japanator, but there are a couple of things that popped out as this photo being a shop:
-MJ is both wearing glasses and carrying a pair in his hand.
-The hood is much darker than anything else that’s black in the shot.
-He’s got a bit of smudge tool on his face.
Uncle Bear » Blog Archive » Random Ne said, on 12/17/2007 10:18:00 PM
[…] Michael Jackson — manga fan? If you look closely the book he’s carrying is some kind of book about Dragons. Luckily, Wacko Jacko has not yet discovered yaoi. (tags: manga celebrity gossip) […]
I hope it *is* some kind of photoshopped hoax. Very creepy.
DickMcVengeance said, on 12/17/2007 11:09:00 PM
@Marcus: Well, I passed it by friend, my blog network’s art director, and he went with it being a shop right away.
Cindy A. said, on 12/17/2007 11:23:00 PM
He is clearly going for the shota section, guys.
The Beat said, on 12/18/2007 12:45:00 AM
DirkMcV, I’m a little touched by the fact that you think that Jacko carrying a pair of glasses wearing wearing another is behavior aberrant enough to brand the photos as fake.
The photos at TMZ don’t include this set, so they could be photoshopped. However, he was clearly in a bookshop, so there is a chance they are real. I mean I have no doubt whatsoever taht that’s what Jackson looks like, sadly. It’s just his standing in front of a sharp focused rack of manga that’s the question.
Jamie Coville said, on 12/18/2007 4:29:00 AM
Notice the two sets of glasses are different. One is probably for reading fine print, the other are big shades for hiding his identity. I don’t see the two glasses as “proof” of anything.
Fanboy Menace said, on 12/18/2007 7:05:00 AM
Why would someone photoshop Jacko in a bookstore? It is possible that it is shopped but I don’t really see any typical indicators that this is a fake. The black material on Jacko will reflect black different than the flat hard surfaces in the background. It’s VERY possible he’s wearing shades inside along with his reading glasses in hand (remember who we are talking about here). And hen DOESN’T his face look smudgy and weird? His face is the least realistic one I’ve ever seen!
groonk said, on 12/18/2007 7:06:00 AM
stop that. you’re scaring me.
and considering what the demographic for manga is the the USA it’s not so surprising.
*shudders*
Torsten Adair said, on 12/18/2007 8:26:00 AM
Today’s NY Post reports that he spent two hours shopping at a Barnes & Noble in Lap Vegas.
No idea about the bandages. He hides his face regularly.
(NB: this is a still from the movie FANBOYS, in which some Star Wars nerds travel to Skywalker Ranch to get a copy of PHANTOM MENACE for their dying friend.
Death by Jar Jar?)
10 Comments on Kristin Bell does Slave Leia, last added: 12/13/2007
If there were one dollar bills stuffed in her belt and she were lap-dancing a couple o’ pimple-faced Jedi — THEN it would be pandering.
Ian said, on 12/12/2007 10:13:00 AM
Wouldn’t “What is pandering?” be the question?
phil said, on 12/12/2007 10:21:00 AM
Wow I thought the point was to make someone’s last living moments painless.
Jonathan said, on 12/12/2007 10:26:00 AM
It worked on me. I didn’t know why people acted like she was a particularly attractive young lady. It turns out she has a pretty cute figure.
Frank S. Kim said, on 12/12/2007 11:43:00 AM
Wait, FANBOYS? They’re finally making that movie? I remember reading about that script on AICN a long time ago (even before the prequels came out) and then nothing came out of it, so I almost thought I had imagined the whole thing. Way to miss the window of hype, though.
Scott Bieser said, on 12/12/2007 8:13:00 PM
The outfit looked better on Carrie Fisher.
Uncle Bear » Blog Archive » Random Ne said, on 12/12/2007 10:21:00 PM
[…] Kristin Bell does Slave Leia this is a still from the movie FANBOYS, in which some Star Wars nerds travel to Skywalker Ranch to get a copy of PHANTOM MENACE for their dying friend. (tags: starwars fandom cosplay) […]
Tag said, on 12/12/2007 10:48:00 PM
Kristen herself has said she’s an enormous Star Wars nerd. If anyone is pandering here, it’s probably her.
rich said, on 12/13/2007 9:11:00 AM
I think Kristen looks good … the movie looks stupid.
I was at PHILCON (in Philadelphia) last month. Some cute girl with a small video-camera was asking stupid questions of people. “I’m making a documentary about sci-fi fandom.” Oh, brother.
I liked it better when the public at large wasn’t pandering to fans. I kinda wish that someone would shut off the lights and lock the door on the “geek culture,” then roll up the sidewalk.
William Gatevackes said, on 12/13/2007 9:11:00 AM
I don’t know, maybe I’m a freak, but Slave Leia does nothing for me. Never did. Not on Carrie Fisher, not on Jennifer Aniston, not on Kristen Bell. So the pandering does not affect me.
Bale will play Connor, now in his 30s, in the fourth installment of the “Terminator” franchise, to be set in the future. McG is directing the project, skedded for an April start in Budapest.
Bale has been rumored to be involved in the project for weeks, but there had been conflicting reports about his role.
What other such two time heroes are there? The original Schwazenator was both the Terminator and Conan, of course. Harrison Ford was Han AND Indy. Wallace Shawn was Wallace Shawn AND Vizzini. We’re spacing here…there must be lots more. Knock yourself out.
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Eastwood was Dirty Harry and the Man With No Name. Stallone was Rambo and Rocky. Connery was Bond and Zardoz.
Wait, scratch that last one.
Patrick said, on 12/3/2007 5:25:00 AM
Ian McKellen was Gandalf AND Magneto!
Charles Skaggs said, on 12/3/2007 6:02:00 AM
Peter Weller was Buckaroo Banzai and Robocop. Oh, and Alec Baldwin was Jack Ryan and The Shadow.
Nathaniel said, on 12/3/2007 6:18:00 AM
Ben Affleck has played both a comic book creator and a comic book character!
rolando said, on 12/3/2007 6:57:00 AM
Let’s not forget the women:
Jessica Alba (Sin City and FF)
Halle Berry (X-Men and Catwoman)
Rebecca Romijn Stamos (X-Men and Punisher)
Rosario Dawson (Sin City and MIB II)
Kirsten Dunst (The Crow and Spider-Man)
Jennifer Connaly (The Rocketeer and Hulk)
Torsten Adair said, on 12/3/2007 7:16:00 AM
Threefer: Kim Catrall… Miss Honeywell in Porky’s, a Vulcan that fans hate in Star Trek II, and Samantha in Sex In The City.
Then you’ve got great character actors who headline, like John Cleese, Peter Sellers, and John Lithgow.
And Sir Sean was in Time Bandits, and two different Robin Hood movies! George Clooney in Batman and Oceans 11+. Chris Marsden in Xmen and Superman? Tim Allen in Toy Story and Santa Clause.Marlon Brando in the Godfather and Superman. Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek and Planet Of The Apes? Roddy McDowell in Apes and Batman TV?
My cell browser only has one window, so this is from memory… but doesn’t Jason Bourne moonlight as Jack Ryan? And isn’t Buckaroo Banzai also Robocop? Austin Powers is Shreck, and Donkey is a Beverly Hills Cop. (do I get points for a degree of separation?)
Tom Spurgeon said, on 12/3/2007 7:22:00 AM
Orson Welles was Harry Lime and Unicron.
Paul said, on 12/3/2007 7:52:00 AM
Too many to count. I’ll go for oldies:
Gary Cooper: Lou Gehrig and Sgt.York
George Arliss: Disraeli, Voltaire
Marlon Brando: Jor-El, Godfather
Lon Chaney: Hunchback of Notre Dame, Phantom of the Opera
Gregory Peck: Atticus Finch, Douglas MacArthur
Douglas Fairbanks: Zorro, Robin Hood
George Hamilton: Zorro, Evil Knievel(!)
Enuffa dat.
david said, on 12/3/2007 8:09:00 AM
Did we get Patrick Stewart? Both Jean Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier.
Scott said, on 12/3/2007 8:21:00 AM
What’s more important than who else has played multiple fan favorites is that now everybody viewing the new Terminator movies will be waiting, consciously or not, for John Connor to announce, “I’m Batman” in a gravelly voice and pull some whupass out of his utility belt. Much as we waited for Hugo Weaving’s Elrond to turn to Frodo and say something like, “That is the sound of inevitability, Mr. Baggins.”
Anun said, on 12/3/2007 8:58:00 AM
To be nitpicky, it’s Kirstie Alley in Star Trek II and Kim Catrell in Star Trek VI.
Oh, I’ve wasted my life.
badMike said, on 12/3/2007 10:21:00 AM
Nobody much cares for Robin Curtis as Saavik in Parts III and IV, either. And speaking of Star Trek: You have William Shatner as Kirk and T.J. Hooker; and Ricardo Montalban as Khan and Mr. Roarke.
Also, going further back, Humphrey Bogart was both Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
The Beat said, on 12/3/2007 10:34:00 AM
Bogie wins!
I think McKellen’s Gandalf/Magneto double wins for most famed literary (*ahem) characters. That’s the one I was trying to think of.
Bryan Munn said, on 12/3/2007 11:16:00 AM
Buster Crabbe was Tarzan AND Flash Gordon AND Buck Rogers AND Billy the Kid!
Kirk Alyn was Superman and Blackhawk.
eric shanower said, on 12/3/2007 11:18:00 AM
Charlton Heston was Moses and Taylor
sleavell said, on 12/3/2007 11:51:00 AM
Tom Tyler was Captain Marvel and the Phantom, as well as lots of cowboys.
Jamie Coville said, on 12/3/2007 12:23:00 PM
Linda Carter was Wonder Woman and had a teacher role in Sky High.
Keanu Reeves was in Matrix and Constantine
Urma Thurman in Kill Bill and My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Stallone was also in Judge Dredd and Spy Kids 3D
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywaker and Guyver (live action Manga Superhero) - not to mention all his voice acting for Superhero Cartoons.
Natalie Portman in Star Wars Prequels and V for Vendetta
Will Smith for Men in Black and I, Robot.
Tommy Lee Jones for Men in Black and Batman.. Forever was it? He played Two Face.
Arnold was Mr. Freeze and Conan.
Johnny Depp in From Hell and Pirates of the Caribbean (rumored for Sin City II & III)
Darren J. Gendron said, on 12/3/2007 12:39:00 PM
James Earl Jones:
Vader.
Mufasa.
CNN.
Admiral Greer in the Jack Ryan series.
He’s even in Dr. Strangelove.
But the real winner? Lon Chaney Jr.
The Wolfman
The Frankenstein Monster
The Mummy
Count Dracula
Sinbad
Lennie from Of Mice and Men
The Beat said, on 12/3/2007 12:59:00 PM
Kids, you are losing sight of the game a bit. It is not just playing two characters in genre films….any schnook can do that. It’s characters of roughly equal value! Thus Lynda Carter playing WW AND a character in SKY HIGH doesn’t count because the Sky High character was clearly an homage to her role as Wonder Woman.
Jessica Alba as Nancy and Sue Storm does count, though.
I think Lon Chaney is the winner. For extra credit: imagine internet reaction to Lon Chaney’s career.
Torsten Adair said, on 12/3/2007 1:15:00 PM
Asked my fanboy coworkers… Mel Gibson in Mad Max and Lethal Weapon. Frank Langella in Superman, Dracula, and Skeletor. John Rhys Davies in Raiders/last Crusade and Lord Of The Rings (you can link him with Connery and Ford). Orlando Bloom.
She says, “My mom and I stopped at a church during a road trip we were making from our home in Mexico. “When we went inside, I prayed for the miracle I wanted to happen. I put my hands in holy water and said: ‘Please God, give me some breasts’. “And he gave me them! Within a few months, I developed a growing spurt, as teenagers do, and I was very pleased with the way I grew outwards.”
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Ha! I’m pleased that she got what she wanted as well!
michael said, on 11/16/2007 7:17:00 PM
Amazing! If only she could remember the location of the Church of the Enlarged Breasts as southern cal teen girls would be flocking there like there’s no tomorrow.
The Scream Awards were taped this weekend and Shock Til You Drop has a mega photo gallery . We like the above one the most. The gang was all there: Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Robert Rodriguez, BRUCE, Krisanna Loken, etc etc. Neil Gaiman received a special Comic-Con Icon Award from Spike-TV and the San Diego Comic-Con.
The show airs Tuesday on Spike.
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I swear, it seems like Neil Gaiman has been wearing that exact same outfit for like 15 years.
Christopher Moonlight said, on 10/22/2007 7:18:00 AM
Gaiman swears that if he takes that jacket off, no one recognizes him. Good for him, though. I’m glad he took part in it. It’s a really good thing that Spike is helping bring comics into the main stream. They should give one to Alan Moore next, but only if he’s willing to stop being so negative for two seconds, and show up to receive it.
Ralph Mathieu said, on 10/22/2007 9:05:00 AM
Alan Moore has his reasons for being “negative” especially when it comes to Hollywood - it’s odd that if someone doesn’t want to compromise their ideals or creations they’re labelled as being “negative”.
Moore also doesn’t write or create for the “rock star” attention or awards (and I’m not saying that’s what Neil Gaiman is about, just that Moore is a more private person).
Christopher Moonlight said, on 10/22/2007 9:21:00 AM
“Alan Moore has his reasons for being “negative” especially when it comes to Hollywood”
…but I’m not talking about Hollywood, or being a “rock star.” Don’t get me wrong. I love Alan Moore, but he does spend a lot of his time denouncing things. Sure he’s got his reasons to be pissed off. We all do, but after a while, we have to chose if we’re going to continue to be that way, or move on and embrace what it was that we loved all the time.
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Ralph Mathieu said, on 10/22/2007 11:42:00 AM
I don’t think Alan Moore spends a lot of time denouncing things, rather it’s the comics newsmagazines, sites, and fans spending so much time discussing this when he does his “denouncing” that makes it appear as such. And while I’m sure Alan Moore doesn’t need me speculating on what his stands are, I’m going to guess that he has moved on, still loves the medium, but is not going to play the games you have to play to be published by the big two.
Fanboy Menace said, on 10/22/2007 6:38:00 PM
I think someone should spend less time listening to Rob Liefeld’s radically misinformed opinions of Moore (and any of the haters and gossip chasers) and more time thinking for himself.
How did this turn into another debate about Alan Moore???
Christopher Moonlight said, on 10/22/2007 6:57:00 PM
Who’s Rob Liefeld?
Neil Gaiman said, on 10/22/2007 10:52:00 PM
Twenty years now.
That particular jacket’s only eleven years old, though.
And I bought the boots in Camden Town only a couple of months ago.
I keep wanting to pronounce nerdlebrity as nerdle-brity, rather than nerd-lebrity, which might be what Ace was going for.
We almost forget that actress Salma Hayek had a baby girl last week. Congratulations! Valentina Paloma Pinault is the first child for Hayek, 41, and fiancee Francois Henri Pinault, but great training for when Hayek plays mother of god-knows-how-many Luba in The Beat’s imaginary but much dreamed for adaptation of LOVE AND ROCKETS. And maybe even Salma is thinking the same thing: Paloma…Palomar….hm…..
BTW, the previous pictures of Salma Hayak we’ve posted are now the most Googled upon elements of this blog. Sad but true. We’re thinking this is one traffic-raising ploy that most of our readers will enjoy, however.
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It’s a shame Hollywood dominates the post-Comic-Con headlines, because there are so many more things going on than blockbusters and new TV shows. For one thing, this annual event is a gathering of some of the world’s greatest storytellers, and, if you know where to go, some of them will be willing to entertain you late into the evening.
Hollywood folks there included Robert Downey Jr., J.J. Abrams, Jon Favreau, Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Zach Quinto, Colin Ferguson, Sarah Silverman and Brian Posehn. Cool comics folks there included Stan Lee, Ed Brubaker, Gabriel Ba, Douglas Wolk and Heidi McDonald. After that party I headed to the Hyatt, where several of these folks (including Galifianakis, Duke and Seth Green) continued to enjoy the evening in the hotel’s two bars. During the night, several people asked me if I was Zooey Deschanel. Weird.
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§ Dave Astor has several reports from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’s 50th Anniversary convention: Can editorial cartoons survive?
Before audience members came up with the suggestions, the problem was described by editorial cartoonist Paul Fell — one of the session leaders. “Part of the reason the AAEC was founded was a concern about the dimimishing number of editorial cartoon positions in the U.S.,” said Fell, a Nebraska-based creator syndicated by Artizans. “Here we are 50 years later and we’re facing the same problem — only now there’s roughly 25% of the staff positions [about 80]compared to 1957.”
Troubled by the fact that so many Americans were functionally illiterate, he organized a group called Cartoonists Across America to encourage kids to dive into books. Beginning with a cross country tour to 34 states and two Canadian provinces, Yeh (pronounced, “Yay”) and his cohorts appeared at schools, shopping malls, and other public spots to paint murals, enlist literacy tutors, and give away original comic books with a reading-is-fun theme.
“I’ve been a big fan of cartoons, and I actually got in there and did some animating when I was in high school,” he says. “I won a prize. I won a Rocky & Bullwinkle for my don’t-drink-and-drive cartoon.”
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It’s true — they both appear in a documentary by Kristin Maccary called The Altered States of America. The title of the film was inspired by a line from Mack’s Kabuki. Now you can’t see David in the clip, but you do see Noam Chomsky and although he doesn’t play lobby soccer, he’s almost as good.
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I’m writing to tell you that I regretfully and painfully had to pull out of P2. I can’t tell you how completely broken up I am about it. After busting my ass at the gym four days a week for almost two years, watching every character driven action pic that any fan would ask me to watch while I was standing in line buying egg whites and Tuna fish (Leon the Professional, Oldboy, The Seven-Ups (GREAT flick), Point Blank, Escape from NY, The Driver, Magnum Force, The Mechanic, The Great Silence, Sexy Beast, Nighthawks, Cry Vengeance (check it out), Road Warrior, Man on Fire, Outlaw Josey Wales, Rocky (think about it), Serpico, etc etc etc.) after countless Saturday nights making notes and drinking soda water and munching on seaweed sticks while my daughter slept on my lap to the sound of automatic gunfire, (now she can’t sleep without it. I had to make a tape of automatic gunfire to play in her room at night) after hauling myself to any ‘Guns! Knifes! Ammo!’ show in any small town that I found myself in shooting Killshot or The Mist or Mutant Chronicles, after torn ligaments, screwed up rotator cuffs, thousands of $$$ on ridiculously huge vitamins, overly long conversations with frighteningly tall men about The Fastest Way To Kill Someone With Your Bare Hands, and after a dude refused to sell me a Fatburger at 2am on Santa Monica Blvd, I am, sadly – no, make that heartbrokenly – fuck it - just rip out the heart and stomp it into the pavement a couple of times – pulling out. Punisher fans are already fighting an uphill battle as it is. And I’ve always felt a responsibility to fight that fight for them and with them so that Frank Castle gets the treatment he deserves.
I’m sharing this with you because I know you’re a fan, like me, and you’ve got your ear to the ground, and because we seem to share the same sort of taste and passion when it comes to movies and stories that get us off. What I won’t do is spend months of my life sweating over a movie that I just don’t believe in. I’ve always loved the Marvel guys, and wish them well. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to search for a film that one day might stand with all those films that the fans have asked me to watch.
We know one thing, after reading this rather colorful email, we are more interesting in reading ALIEN PIG FARM 3000, Jane’s new image comic!
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TOM is a smart and wonderful guy that gets what makes the character so cool. He used his brain and decided that its not for him the way presented. THREE CHEERS for tom jane!!!
What does he have coming up next? Anyone know?
R. Maheras said, on 5/17/2007 2:26:00 PM
And the art for Alien Pig Farm 3000 is done by the talented Don Marquez (aka Donnie Jupiter) — an artist whose work I’ve been a fan of for many years. Go Donnie, go!
Matt said, on 5/17/2007 4:07:00 PM
Horrible Punisher movie? The first one was pretty good and had a low budget. Why would the second be horrible?
michael said, on 5/17/2007 4:37:00 PM
Jane needs to pay more attention to the script of his comic book. It was pretty awful. Great idea, but awful…
Ian Boothby said, on 5/17/2007 5:44:00 PM
Is Dolph available?
Beau Smith said, on 5/18/2007 7:04:00 AM
Rumor has it Tom Jane would make the perfect actor to play COBB from the IDW Publishing series COBB : Off The Leash. Why let all those vitamins and action movies go to waste.
Cate Blanchett has been spotted out and about of late looking her usual impeccably fashionable self, but tongues have been wagging that she looks gaunt. But word is, she has lost a lot of weight for her role in the movie version of Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s CANCER VIXEN. She is GOING THE DISTANCE.
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oh…for a minute there i thought she was losing weight to fit into some supercostume, but to play a cancer patient is different. still not great for her health, probably, but at least has more artistic merit. i guess?? “all shall love me and despair…for a cheeseburger!”
You’re hot Jessica. That’s an easy cross to bear. Lots of people aren’t hot and wish they were (and one day you won’t be hot, either). Take some different roles in indie movies and TV to expand your repertoir. Invest that bikini money well. You’ll be alright.
Anonymous said, on 5/16/2007 7:43:00 AM
time to start eating you skeleton.
Anun said, on 5/16/2007 8:17:00 AM
Don’t worry, Alba! No one finds drooling sexy.
William Gatevackes said, on 5/16/2007 10:45:00 AM
Brilliant! The contrast between the quote and picture was genius! You’re so fun when you use your powers for evil, Heidi!
Alex said, on 5/16/2007 12:47:00 PM
But its really our choice to see her words next to such photos. She’s in a David Wain movie this year too, but because in her last three projects [which defined her fame] was playing a stripper in a Frank Miller film, a surfer and a superhero in a rubber jumpsuit, there we go with this kind of… QUESTIONING.
Also, anonymous people say the cruelest things. Get a name yah question mark!
michael said, on 5/16/2007 3:56:00 PM
Kneon, LOL!! Hysterical!!
Alan Coil said, on 5/16/2007 6:37:00 PM
If that is really her body, she looks mighty thin.
Hector Lima said, on 5/17/2007 6:07:00 AM
we’re seeing her skeleton because that’s a promo shot for RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER, hence the bikini.
Hagrid and Flitwick enjoyed the ancient custom of cheese rolling in a grand photo op in Stilton, UK yesterday. Warwick Davis, star of STAR WARS, HARRY POTTER, WILLOW and several other films, is a local, and was there to bless the festival with Ewok homilies. He was soon joined by Robbie Coltrane, who plays the giant Hagrid in the Potter pictures. The duo was united to participate in Stilton’s annual cheese trundling fest. You’d not be advised to slice up the prize cheese for a bit of Welsh rarebit, however : it’s actually a piece of wood.
Made out of a telegraph pole, the “cheese” is trundled along the High Street by teams of bizarrely-dressed competitors who brave tussles and tumbles to cross the finish line first.
This year, participants donning traffic cones, scarecrow outfits and electric pink bubble perms made up one of the most eccentric line-ups the race had ever seen.
Local celebrity Mr Davis, who has starred in films such as Harry Potter and Star Wars, kickstarted the action with a rousing speech.
Speaking beforehand, he said the magic of the festival lay in its novelty value.
“This is the fourth year I’ve opened the festival. You don’t see this every day and can’t see it anywhere else,” he said.
While we’re sad that in this day and age you can’t use actual cheese to roll down the streets, we’re glad there is an Internet.
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Christopher Moonlight said, on 5/9/2007 7:14:00 AM
Being half British and half American (and I am an American citizen) I must wonder if there’s any part of me that isn’t all crazy. CRAZY FUN!!! I’m sure that there are those who would peg this as a foolish waist of time, endorsed only by baboons and airheads, but “Life is much too important to be taken seriously.” - Oscar Wilde God bless them, and I hope they all have a really good time at it.
Rockin' Rich said, on 5/9/2007 2:41:00 PM
Run, Warwick! Robbie is going to eat you!!
Mike Robinson said, on 5/10/2007 4:25:00 AM
I was there! (Although I had no idea that Robbie was there - I must have been in the pub at the time). My time made the quarter finals and would have made the semis if not for a minor rule that we’d overlooked!
And just to please you Heidi, in the final you *do* get to roll a real stilton down the highstreet!
We haven’t been covering this story because, frankly, everyone else has, and also it’s just sad. The rampant speculation and tasteless grandstanding following the young actor’s death is typical and yet the accelerated pace in the internet era makes it even more instantaneous and unavoidable. Nonetheless, a few notes that are germane to the topics of this website:
It seems that Kiwi Karl Urban, who will portray young Doctor McCoy in J.J. Abrams upcoming STAR TREK XI movie, didn’t have to be persuaded to take the role: he’s a lifelong STAR TREK fan and 
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I’m sharing this with you because I know you’re a fan, like me, and you’ve got your ear to the ground, and because we seem to share the same sort of taste and passion when it comes to movies and stories that get us off. What I won’t do is spend months of my life sweating over a movie that I just don’t believe in. I’ve always loved the Marvel guys, and wish them well. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to search for a film that one day might stand with all those films that the fans have asked me to watch.
Cate Blanchett has been spotted out and about of late looking her usual impeccably fashionable self, but tongues have been wagging that she looks gaunt. But 
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