Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Few literary classics have gone as viral as Charles Dickens’ immortal novella A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. See also: Movies: Jim Carrey Revives Christmas Carol as 3-D Spectacle The latest iteration, opening Friday, is Disney’s 3-D movie starring Jim Carrey as a freaky-faced Scrooge. Directed by performance-capture wiz Robert Zemeckis, this [...]
Zamri Abdullah's Big Fat Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Christmas shopping is now officially ON! With the flicked of a switch, Oxford St and Regent St at London West End has turned the Big Smoke into the Big Light . Theme of this year - Christmas Carol. You know the story right? I love the 'human version' starred by the beloved Captain Jean Luc Picard himself, Patrick Stewart. But this Disney movie is actually the animated one, voiced by Jim Carrey who...
Time (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
There are scores of adaptations of Dickens' classic. But the new Robert Zemeckis version is peculiarly suited to our time
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"A Christmas Carol," starring Jim Carrey, has many precursors. Check them out on DVD.
Super Media Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(Patrick Stewart in a Christmas Carol video) The Audio Reading with Patrick Stewart of the Charles Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol”, has been getting rave reviews on Amazon. One reviewer stated “I have often said that books that have been recorded, and even worse abridged, are not worth the time of the listener, and not what [...] This post was written by the Super Media Blog...
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
If you need another version of the Dickens holiday classic, featuring a multitasking Jim Carrey and improved but typically stiff motion-capture animation, this is the movie for you.
The Sun (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
AS female Beefeater goes bald from stress Gail Porter says what it is like to be hairless
BBC NEWS | View from the South Bank (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I choked on my popcorn when i saw the trailer for the new Disney version of A Christmas Carol. "You've never seen anything like this before!" it proudly declared. Errr, unless you've read one of the greatest works of English literature or seen one of the myriad of stage and screen versions which have been churned out at regular intervals over the years. Everyone from Alastair Sim to Patrick...
Charlotte Observer: Sports (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
(By Cliff Mehrtens, cmehrtens@charlotteobserver.com) Independence's Ryan Thompson isn't the largest offensive lineman around. But he could be the most versatile, and effective. Since landing on the varsity team as a freshman, Thompson, 6 feet and 225 pounds, has played center, guard, tackle, tight end and defensive line.
Domesticity (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Above: Freddie "Batman" Roach and Manny Pacquiao, putting the fear of God into Miguel Cotto.(Posted in several boxing forums and on Photobucket.) Last week was the kind of week where every single day turned out to be Halloween: dog drama, Aunt Flo, too much sleep, not enough good TV*... and then, the typhoon that damn-near ruined everything, from hanging out with Bakeks to visiting our dearly...
madmonq's joint (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Dragon Con, or any con I guess is like a dive into your grandmother’s attic. Full of weird stuff that your inner kid finds irresistible. Only without woman wearing bustiers and guys dressed as Captain Hammer. Or maybe it is. I don’t know. I don’t know what your grandma is into. She might be freak. Honest to [...]
The Bronze Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Just picked a topic I haven't gone on about for a while. Free energy is one of those things that sticks around. I guess being able to get something for nothing is just one of those things people wish wasn't too good to be true. Of course, since I grew up listening to Patrick Stewart speeches, I tend to have an underlying thought that if we're just clever enough, we could find just the perfect things...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 25 - 31 in PDF format This week's TV Movies INOPERABLE: When a hospital lab tech learns he has an inoperable tumor on his spine, he asks Dr. Shepherd...
This is Money Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Here's a question. What do Fern Britton, Ant 'n' Dec, Ronan Keating, Patrick Stewart, Zoe Ball and Girls Aloud have in common? Any guesses? No? Well let me tell you. Apart from being super-famous celebrity faces, they have all played...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
ANNA FRIEL is constantly on the look-out for ghosts while she's on-stage in London following rumours of a supernatural presence at the theatre where she is working.
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