Saturday, April 16, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern coming to the big screen
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern book series has garnered generations of fans. Now it's about to be translated for the screen by the screenwriter for Watchmen and X2, David Hayter.
According to Deadline,
producer Steve Hoban has been itching to make a Pern film forever. And
now David Hayter has been hired to write the script based on Dragonflight, the first book in McCaffrey's 22-book series.
I wasn't too impressed with The Watchmen movie. But I can't see how they can make Dragonflight dull. Here's hoping they do a good job on this.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Eye magazine changing its name and direction
Eye've got a bad feeling about this...
The new publisher and editor-in-chief, who reports directly to Star Media Group president and Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank, used to be the editor of the Globe & Mail's Report on Business magazine (see link here).
Excerpt from the main link above:
The new handle is not some sort of Tron reference, he said.
“It’s actually more descriptive than anything. If you look at a map of
the city and take out the background and just emphasize all the
roadways—North, South, East and West—it looks like a piece of graph
paper. So that notion of looking at the city from a street level and a
neighbourhood level is very much the direction we’re going editorially,”
said Turnbull, who stepped into his role at the Torstar-owned Eye seven months ago.
The name change is part of a move in a radically different direction for the publication, he continued.
Rather than remain an alternative newsweekly heavy in arts, entertainment and listings, The Grid will essentially be a city magazine for people in their 20s and 30s. “So a younger, hipper, more provocative version of Toronto Life in a weekly guise,” he said.
“We’re pretty excited about it because there’s never been a weekly
city magazine for young people in Toronto and we think there’s a real
appetite for it,” said Turnbull. He added that Torstar has put a lot of
resources into the launch.
“There really hasn’t been a big print and online media brand launch in this town for a long, long time. Dose was probably the last thing that would even approach this scale.”
Dose magazine info
And, more on this here:
People In Print: Changes at Eye Weekly and Chatelaine
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Pope charged with crimes against humantiy in World Court
Excerpt:
hey claim the Pope “is responsible for the preservation and
leadership of a worldwide totalitarian regime of coercion which
subjugates its members with terrifying and health-endangering threats”.
fatal forbiddance of the use of condoms, even when the danger of
HIV-Aids infection exists” and for “the establishment and maintenance of
a worldwide system of cover-up of the sexual crimes committed by
Catholic priests and their preferential treatment, which aids and abets
ever new crimes”.
that do not yet have a will of their own”. This act was “irrevocable”
and is buttressed by threats of excommunication and the fires of hell.
development and of a person’s emotional and mental integrity”. The Pope
was “responsible for its preservation and enforcement and, as Prefect of
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of his Church, he was
jointly responsible” with Pope John Paul II.
terrible alternative: If they protect themselves with condoms during
sexual intercourse, they become grave sinners; if they do not protect
themselves out of fear of the punishment of sin threatened by the
church, they become candidates for death.”
prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of his church
and as Pope, has up to the present day systematically covered up the
sexual abuse of children and youths and protected the perpetrators,
thereby aiding and abetting further sexual violence toward young people”.
Geoffrey Robinson, a United Nations jurist from the UK, called for an
international criminal investigation of Benedict by the UN World
Criminal Court over the cover-up of crimes by pedophile priests, but
nothing came of it. That may not be the case this time because once
charges are filed, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
must investigate them.
Silver Snail comic shop may move to the Annex in 2012
The owner of the Silver Snail will be sold to to the manager and it will continue. But, it may be moving in in 2012 to the Annex.
Read the link for the details.
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