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26 April 2009 12:12 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

Femputer: 'Have you any idea how it feels to be a fembot living in a manbot's manputer's world?'

Actress and comedienne Bea Arthur passed away yesterday, April 25th, at the age of 86. Though best known for her work in the TV comedies Maude and The Golden Girls, Arthur was the voice of the 'Femputer' (female computer) on the all-women Amazon planet in the 2001 Futurama episode Amazon Women in the Mood. She also had memorable roles in Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I (1981), as 'Ackmena' in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), and on several episodes of the 1950's Kraft Mystery Theatre genre series...

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- Superheidi

26 February 2009 2:51 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

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The Final Chapter (read Part 2 here)! We have Howard the Duck, Freejack and Shyamalan flicks on the list; these are never good signs. Nonetheless we are bringing it all to you in full-color and in 3-D. (Ed. Note: Due to the economy, 3-D has been dropped and will be replaced by Smell-o-vision — check for your scratch and sniff cards in about 4-6 weeks.) Best Sound went to rage-zombie veterans Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke, leaving Mark Weingarten who worked on Rejuvenatrix in the dust. The Sound Editing section contains one too many references to Ron Silver, and at least two references to a Roger Corman film.

The visual effects category pulled on our heartstrings this year due to the loss of Stan Winston, who was noted en memoriam along with other heroes, Vampira, Leonard Rosenman and Charles H. Schneer »

- Heather Buckley

2 articles from 2009