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Rent will hit the big screen again. This time around it won’t be a film adaptation, but rather a filmed performance.
Playbill reports that the musical’s final Broadway performance on September 7 (June 1 was the original closing date.) will be filmed as part of Sony Pictures’ venture “the Hot Ticket.” The performance will play in [...]

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MTV wants to remake the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
If it were anyone else besides MTV, I’d probably be marginally more interested. And really, it’s not as if there aren’t enough bad remakes of other classic flicks floating around.

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From TMZ’s gallery of Muppets and their celebrity lookalikes, Janice the Muppet and Donatella Versace.
Wow, that’s just uncanny… and quite possibly an insult to Jim Henson’s creations.
Speaking of which, the Smithsonian’s Ripley Center currently features the exhibit “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World” now through October 5. The Smithsonian is the fourth stop on the exhibit’s tour, [...]

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In case you missed the Twitter tweets, facebook statuses and my housemate’s journal entry on the subject, I headed out to Bengie’s Drive-In Theater on Friday night. I’d never been to a drive-in. And yes, it was an experience.
Friday’s show was a triple bill: Kung Fu Panda (better than I expected, but still kinda meh); [...]

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We’re prejudiced, now what?: Scientists now tell us bias toward others may be innate. But that doesn’t mean we have to behave like Bill O’Reilly. [more at Salon]
Alanis Morissette tunes in to “Radio”: Alanis Morissette has joined the cast of sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick’s semiautobiographical feature adaptation “Radio Free Albemuth.” [more at Reuters]
Rosie ambushed [...]

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On the heels of Dumbledore’s recent outing, the New York put together a list of 10 fictional characters who wouldn’t surprise us if they were as gay. Among them, Mr. Spock from “Star Trek,” Mr. Big from “Sex and the City,” and the Muppets’ resident cornball Fozzie Bear.
Not on the list, perhaps unsurprisingly, “the Jetsons’” [...]

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Ledo name of ‘nerve center’
Apple reportedly angered by ‘iGasm’ ads | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
The Evening Class: QUEER CINEMA Turner Classic Movies Broadcast of Screened Out: Gay Images In Film
DC Metro Rider - Recording of the Old Metro Voice?
Machines give kids lessons in food, finance

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Two bits from today’s Washington Post:

Macs and Grant Site Just Don’t Click: Grants.gov was to be Mac-compatible this year, but with a vendor contract expiring in November, grant applicants are unsure if the site will work for them by the February 1 application deadline.
Apple Unveils Online Movie Store: iTunes users can now buy movies in [...]

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