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Trailer for "Be Kind, Rewind)

This is the trailer for the new Michael Gondry film starring Jack Black and Mos Def.

The Synopsis: "Jerry (Jack Black) is a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant he suspects of causing his headaches. But he inadvertently causes his brain to become magnetized, leading to the unintentional destruction of all the movies in his friend's (Mos Def) store. In order to keep the store's one loyal customer, an elderly lady with a tenuous grasp on reality, the pair re-create a long line of films including The Lion King, Rush Hour, Ghostbusters, When We Were Kings, Back to the Future, Driving Miss Daisy and Robocop, putting themselves and their townspeople into it. They become the biggest stars in their neighborhood."

Trailer for Dan in Real Life (Steve Carell)

Stop Motion film using polaroid pictures

Childe Roland to the South Park Came

Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" done South Park Style using this site: http://www.sp-studio.de/








Roland Deschain
















Walter - The Man in Black
















The Crimson King and the Golden Snitch






















Mordred Deschain













Father Callahan and the Scrimshaw Turtle at the Dixie Pig















Rhea of the Coos and the Pink Grapefruit of Maerlyn's Rainbow



















A Low Man at The Dixie Pig















A Vampire from The Dixie Pig




















Susannah Dean (Notice, no legs)





















Eddie Dean Pre-Roland
















Dinky Earnshaw


















Patrick Danville














Walter enters the clearing at the end of the path via Mordred Deschain. (Notice the psychic cap that doesn't work)

Salt Lake Tribune Review of Rush at Usana

Review: Rush gives fans their money's worth
By Dan Nailen
The Salt Lake Tribune

WEST VALLEY CITY - No one can ever accuse Rush of not giving fans their money's worth.

Monday at Usana, the Canadian trio delivered a monster-sized set every bit as grand in scope and musically adventurous as the band's 30-year back catalog, playing nearly 30 songs in two sets spread across three hours.

The show included everything a long-time Rush fan has come to expect. Geddy Lee provided entrancing bass lines and that love it-or-hate it howl. Neil Peart brought his propulsive rhythms, deadpan demeanor and unnecessary-but-entertaining drum solo. And guitarist Alex Lifeson spent the evening with a grin permanently attached to his face, clearly pleased to be playing for a near-full amphitheater and with one of rock's best rhythm sections.

Rush opened the show, the sun still bright enough to wash out the lights and video images on stage, with a somewhat plodding "Limelight." The trio was up to speed soon enough, though, with Lee's hyperkinetic bass and Lifeson's reggae-tinged guitar tone leading the way on "Digital Man."

A memorable "Freewill" led to the first new song of the night, "The Main Monkey Business" from Rush's latest album, "Snakes & Arrows." "The Main Monkey Business" and its follow-up, "The Larger Bowl," both met with cheers nearly as loud as the older cuts that followed like "Circumstances" and "Between the Wheels."

After a brief intermission, and the arrival of complete darkness, Rush's stage show was able to take full effect. Three video screens above the band relayed images of animated videos for nearly every song. They also projected close-ups of the musicians working their respective instruments, a much-appreciated feature for the folks high on the hill. The overhead shot looking down on Peart during his drum solo was particularly inventive.

Between the videos, smoke and lasers erupting from the stage, it would be easy for many bands to disappear into the background of their own shows. Not so Monday, thanks to a second set dominated by new music from "Snakes & Arrows." The album is a solid set of hard-rock with touches of prog-rock, blues and reggae, like most of Rush's music, and the fans were unusually receptive to their heroes' new work.

Rush opened the second set with five new songs in a row, including "Far Cry," "Workin' Them Angels" and "The Way the Wind Blows" before stepping back into the '80s for "Subdivisions." By the end of the show, nine of "Snakes & Arrow's" 13 songs had made their way into the set.

By the time Rush hit its final push at show's end, hardly anyone had left even as the show hit the three-hour mark. "Distant Early Warning," "The Spirit of Radio" and classic-rock staple "Tom Sawyer" closed the second set, and the band followed with a brief encore before sending thousands of fans on their merry, exhausted way.

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Who: Rush
When: Monday
Where: Usana Amphitheatre, West Valley City
The Bottom Line: The classic-rock trio overwhelmed a near-packed Usana with its musical dexterity and more than three hours of memorable hard-rock.

Pencil removed from woman's head 55 years after accident

A 59-year-old woman who has suffered blinding headaches since she was four years old has finally had an 8cm long pencil removed from her skull.

Margaret Wegner underwent the risky procedure in Berlin at the weekend to remove the pencil, which showed up on a computer brain scan.

When she saw the image of the white pencil, snapped in two places, she recalled an accident in the town of Dessau when she was four.

"I remember tripping over and the pencil I was holding disappeared," she said. "I had a pain in my head ­ the pencil, it seems, had penetrated the skin and bored straight into my skull."

The pencil missed an artery and nerve endings in the brain by a whisker. Doctors at the time deemed it too risky to operate. That remained the consensus among many doctors over the years but the large part of the pencil was finally removed.

The 2cm tip is still embedded. It has been overgrown by nerves and blood cells which are too dangerous to cut through.

Women in film

80 years of female portraits in cinema.

Including Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry

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