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Proposition 8: Check Your Local Listings?
29 December 2009 9:49 PM, PST
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Variety reports that there is an effort by a media coalition consisting of the major broadcast networks, Dow Jones & Co. and the Hearst Corporation to have the federal court trial over California’s Proposition 8, which restricts same-sex marriage in the state. The plaintiffs do not object to the broadcasting of the trial nor do their attorneys. However, cameras have never been allowed in federal courtrooms beyond covering oral arguments.
That may change with this case, officially called Perry v Schwarzenegger (who knew that he could do courtroom drama as well as action movies?), as there is an experimental basis with allowing coverage of some cases in order to better educate the public about the judicial process. The decision to broadcast and webcast the trial rests with U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker. According to Variety, Walker has already set up an overflow courtroom with a closed-circuit feed, which will
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Arnold Stang, voice of Top Cat, dead at 91
23 December 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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When I was a kid, I loved the cartoon Top Cat. I'm not sure why. Maybe it was the cool music or the fact it was set in New York City. I also really loved Top Cat's voice.
Arnold Stang, the voice of the clever feline, died earlier this week at the age of 91. Stang was in 75 gazillion TV shows and movies over the years (you'd know the face and/or the voice even if you couldn't place the name), including The Jonathan Winters Show, Broadside, Batman, Bonanza, The Red Skelton Show, December Bride, The Steve Allen Show, The Milton Berle Show, Emergency, and Mathnet.
He was also in several movies, including Hercules in New York, Dennis The Menace, and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. He was also the original voice of Buzz Bee in Honey-Nut Cheerios commercials.
After the jump, an episode of Top Cat.
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Actor Stang Dies
22 December 2009 8:11 AM, PST
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American film and TV actor Arnold Stang has died at the age of 91.
Stang passed away on Sunday in Newton, Massachusetts, after a battle with pneumonia.
He enjoyed a long career in radio, film and television, starring as Frank Sinatra's sidekick in 1955 drama The Man With the Golden Arm, co-starring with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action man's first feature film, 1970's Hercules in New York, and 1963 comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Stang also became known for voicing numerous cartoon characters, including Nurtle the Turtle in the 1965 film Pinocchio in Outer Space and 1960s animated U.S. TV series Top Cat, as the series' main character, T.C.
He made the transition to Broadway too, appearing on the New York stage three times, most recently in the 1969 revival of The Front Page.
Other guest appearances include TV spots in Bonanza, Batman and The Cosby show, and as a regular on The Goldbergs, a long-running 1950s family series.
Stang is survived by his wife, JoAnne, son David, daughter Deborah, and two granddaughters.
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The Best Worst Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies
18 November 2009 10:32 PM, PST
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A true action hero, Arnold Schwarzenegger is also the ultimate source of classically terrible and amazing films. Forget G.I. Joe, Schwarzenegger is the real American hero proving that in America it’s as easy to have a lucrative film career without talent or experience as it is to be a senator of a major state without a political background.
Hercules in New York. (1970) Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman. In the film that launched his career, an inexperienced and barely English-Speaking Arnold takes the stage as Hercules (To be honest, the title of the movie really wraps up the plot). Notoriously funny and wonderfully bad, his voice is dubbed the entire film, and only much later when it was re-released on DVD was Arnold’s real voice re-dubbed. It also marked the beginning of his classic one-liners, “Ha ha ha, you have strucked Hercules!”.
Conan the Barbarian. (1982) Directed by John Milius.
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