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In what amounts to a summer comedy storm, a pair of brilliant catalogue titles make their high definition debut looking and sounding better than they ever have - Animal House & The Blues Brothers (Universal, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$26.98 Srp each). Animal House contains both of the retrospective documentaries featured on the last DVD edition, while The Blues Brothers sports both the theatrical and extended cuts, plus a trio of documentaries.
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In what amounts to a summer comedy storm, a pair of brilliant catalogue titles make their high definition debut looking and sounding better than they ever have - Animal House & The Blues Brothers (Universal, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$26.98 Srp each). Animal House contains both of the retrospective documentaries featured on the last DVD edition, while The Blues Brothers sports both the theatrical and extended cuts, plus a trio of documentaries.
- 8/5/2011
- by UncaScroogeMcD
Images have surfaced of the latest Doctor Who offerings from Character Options. Finally, a Roger Delgado Master! He comes with an Axon figure.
Here's the solicitation blurb from the manufacturer:
"An approaching alien spaceship is detected on monitoring equipment at Unit HQ, where the Brigadier is entertaining two visitors. The ship lands in England and the Unit team meet its occupants a beautiful golden-skinned race of humanoids called Axons. The Axons claim that their ship, Axos, is damaged and that they need time in which to repair it. In return, they offer Axonite, a substance that can cause produce to grow to enormous sizes and thus end global food shortages.
The Doctor is suspicious, and rightly so, Axos, Axonite and the Axons are all part of one hideous parasitic entity brought to Earth by the Master (played by Roger Delgado) to feed on the planet's energy and consume it. The...
Here's the solicitation blurb from the manufacturer:
"An approaching alien spaceship is detected on monitoring equipment at Unit HQ, where the Brigadier is entertaining two visitors. The ship lands in England and the Unit team meet its occupants a beautiful golden-skinned race of humanoids called Axons. The Axons claim that their ship, Axos, is damaged and that they need time in which to repair it. In return, they offer Axonite, a substance that can cause produce to grow to enormous sizes and thus end global food shortages.
The Doctor is suspicious, and rightly so, Axos, Axonite and the Axons are all part of one hideous parasitic entity brought to Earth by the Master (played by Roger Delgado) to feed on the planet's energy and consume it. The...
- 8/14/2010
- by Liam K
- GeekTyrant
Actor and singer Robert Goulet, who shot to fame as Lancelot in the original Broadway production of Camelot, died Tuesday morning at a hospital in Los Angeles while awaiting a lung transplant; he was 73. A singer with matinee-idol good looks and a deep, powerful baritone, Goulet was born in Massachusetts but moved to Canada at an early age, prompting TV host Ed Sullivan to dub him the "American baritone from Canada." Though he co-hosted the Canadian TV show C.G.E. Showtime, it was when he starred opposite Richard Burton and Julie Andrews in the 1960 stage musical Camelot that he became a star, known for singing the ballad "If Ever I Would Leave You." He continued to make many television appearances, mostly on The Ed Sullivan Show and won a Grammy award as Best New Artist in 1962. Mainly a stage actor who appeared in innumerable stage productions and won a Tony award in 1968 for The Happy Time, Goulet also performed in Las Vegas and appeared in the films Underground, Atlantic City, Beetlejuice, The Naked Gun 2 1/2. In 1999, he provided the singing voice for Wheezy the Penguin in Toy Story 2, belting out the Randy Newman song "You've Got a Friend in Me." He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Vera, and a daughter and two sons from his first two marriages.
- 10/31/2007
- WENN
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