The most talked-about miniseries of 2004 continues! How could anyone get past the Thanagarian, Martian, Apokoliptian and Kryptonian security systems installed since the murder of a loved one in IDENTITY CRISIS #1? And look out, because new suspects in the serial killings just may start involving the villains' loved ones too!
Hey, what happened to the old guy?!
"Stan and I go back a long ways, and he simply felt it was time for me to reveal my secret identity," Hefner said. "You all know me as the editor in chief and publisher of Playboy. But late at night when everyone assumes I'm in the grotto living the good life, I'm out there with the Superbunnies fighting evildoers."
WPEN-AM (950) will flip from adult standards to oldies, with a playlist covering the 1955-to-1964 pre-Beatles era. Oldies 950's lineup will include WOGL-FM (98.1) alums Charlie Bennett (doing mornings, 6 to 10) and Jim Nettleton (afternoon drive, 3 to 7). Jerry Blavat will host a noon-to-1 lunchtime special (starting Sept. 15) and will keep his 5 to 7 p.m. Friday show. New station manager Brett Beshore said 950's vibe would be similar to Philly's old Wibbage and WFIL. He called the move "a natural evolution."Sounds good to me.....
Adult Swim is finally getting a production budget, and the result will be several new shows in the next year. The first one recently premiered: "The Venture Bros.," an action cartoon spoof sure to be oversimplified as "Jonny Quest after puberty," with gratuitous sex, violence, nudity, drug use and Patrick Warburton defiling mummies. Coming soon are a family of hillbilly squids, a cop comedy with a talking car, untitled projects from actor Seth Green and OutKast's Andre 3000, and new episodes of "Family Guy" to air both on cable and on Fox. And a project to bring the controversial comic strip "Boondocks" to television, just rejected by Fox, has been revived by Cartoon Network.
According to Craig Kausen [Jones' grandson], the Jones family is all too aware of the emotions surrounding the theft of beloved works of art, having suffered through a string of burglaries from their own galleries in the early 1990s. "Chuck was very philosophical about the first theft," said Kausen. "In fact, he said he felt flattered that someone would go to the trouble to steal one of his paintings. However, when the second painting was stolen, it was much more aggravating. We certainly empathize with the curators and the staff of the Munch Museum."
"Beam Me Up Scotty...One Last Time" is the quite-serious title to a three-day event at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel billed as a farewell to the actor who, as fiery Montgomery Scott, ran the U.S.S. Enterprise's engineering deck on Trek's 1966-69 flagship series and six big-screen adventures.
The actor, who plays venerable, chrome-domed leaders in both the Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men franchises, underwent what was termed a "preemptive" angioplasty Monday in Los Angeles on the advice of doctors who discovered a potential blood-flow problem during an exam.Current buzz indicates that Bryan Singer, director of the 1st 2 X-Men movies, and now onboard as director of the long-troubled Superman movie franchise, wants Stewart to play Jor-El, Superman's Kryptonian father.
It's musical mayhem when Batman and Zatanna join forces to save a teammate from a fate worse than death.
"Since 1991, when we first started making Batman, we always joked about making Batman: The Musical because Kevin Conroy, who voices Batman, is a fine singer," explained Justice League voice director Andrea Romano. "In this episode, Batman is forced to do something humiliating in order for a spell to be reversed. And what he is forced to do is sing a song, and he sings it wonderfully."
