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Pretty Pretty Princess

A Real-Life (Party) Princess Spills the Magic Beans on Princess Culture [VIDEO]

by Rebecca Pahle | 6:00 pm, December 8th, 2012

Princess Marty, The Party Princess from NPR on Vimeo.

What does it take to be a real-life princess? “A lot of muscle,” according to M. Alice LeGrow, a.k.a. Princess Marty. “You can’t be a wilting flower. Have you ever walked around in a corset and a ballgown? It’s hard! …Not to mention every child wants to be picked up at least 40 times.” LeGrow, who was profiled by NPR in this short video on party princesses, was a comic book artist before her publisher went out of business and she started her new career. The fact that she’s someone personally involved in “princess culture” makes her take on it all the more refreshing.

(via: Mental Floss)

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Have a Happy Hanukkah With This Trilobite Menorah

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:30 pm, December 8th, 2012


Etsy seller Trilobite Glass Works makes a menorah in the shape of a… wait for it… trilobite. Via Mental Floss’ list of 15 More Quirky Menorahs. Happy first day of Hanukkah, everyone!

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And So It Begins

Fox’s Fantastic Four Reboot Is Still Happening, Gets a 2015 Release Date

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:00 pm, December 8th, 2012

After months of hearing not much of anything about Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot—other than the fact that it exists and is being directed by Chronicle‘s Josh Trank—Fox has given the movie a release date: March 6, 2015.

Man. Between The Avengers sequel, the Justice League movie, Ant-Man, and possibly Star Wars VII, 2015 is going to be one heck of a year.

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Our Adorable Past

The Evolution of Famous Actors (Plus Batman and Biff Tannen)

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:30 pm, December 8th, 2012

Artist Jeff Victor has made my geeky, cinephiliac, infograph-loving heart happy with his series depicting the evolution of famous actors, among them Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, and Tom Hanks. And because every fanart series needs a little Batman (it’s a universal truth, just go with it), he’s included the Caped Crusader as well. Check ‘em out after the jump.

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Oh Hollywood

Disney is Making a Sequel to Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland for Some Reason

by Rebecca Pahle | 12:55 pm, December 8th, 2012

And that reason, I suspect, rhymes with honey, sunny, and funny.

Variety is reporting that Linda Woolverton, who wrote the script for the original, is writing a sequel. In retrospect it’s not hard to see why—Alice made a billion dollars worldwide—but still… a sequel to Alice in Wonderland? Really? Did anyone ask for this?

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I Guess I Can't Argue With That

The Honest Trailer Folks Turn the Lens of Cold, Hard Truth on The Dark Knight Rises [VIDEO]

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:30 am, December 8th, 2012

Boy oh boy, ScreenJunkies had fun with this one. And I had fun watching it, so it’s all nice and balanced. Why was Bruce just hanging out in public after he’d supposedly died? He’s not exactly a low-profile dude. I’m sure Christopher Nolan framed it so the paparazzi were just off to the side.

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The Cake Is A Lie

Someone Made A Stop-Motion Portal 2 Short With LEGO

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:45 pm, December 7th, 2012

Kooberz Studios has entered the Machinima Interactive Film Festival with Part 1 (of 2) of their LEGO Portal 2 film. It features, well, everything you loved from Portal 2 (as well as some thing you might not remember), in stop-motion animation form. And now I really need to replay the game.

(via Kotaku)

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: When You Play the Game of Thrones, You Rock or You Die

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, December 7th, 2012

By IG-HateyHate; available for purchase on a t-shirt at RedBubble. Via Fashionably Geeky.

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i'll just leave this here

The BlackBerry 10 Won’t Let You Use Batman, Gandalf, Most Winnie the Pooh Characters for Your Password

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:35 pm, December 7th, 2012

Deep within the bowels of the Internet (OK, on a popular BlackBerry site, so not really), an intrepid blogger has uncovered a list of 106 passwords banned on the upcoming BlackBerry 10. The usual culprits are there—123456, abcdef, password—alongside some more… unexpected entries. And they are:

batman
canada
coffee
dragon
eeyore
falcon
gandalf
merlin
ncc1701
piglet
poohbear
pookie
rabbit
ranger
snoopy
tigger
wizard

What did Winnie the Pooh ever do to you, BlackBerry?!

(via: ThinkGeek. Image by Olechka, via Robot Mutant)

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Olden Lore

Scholars Argue Over Gender Inequity in Casting at Royal Shakespeare Company (This Is Interesting I Swear)

by Susana Polo | 4:22 pm, December 7th, 2012

After more than four hundred years of preservation and reenactment, it’s no wonder that Shakespeare’s plays have lent themselves to experimentation, adaptation, or modernization of various kinds. But I can understand the Royal Shakespeare Company, being the Royal Shakespeare Company, feels it has some dedication to a traditional staging of the Bard’s work. Shakespeare scholars have been in a bit of a flap lately over a quite modern idea indeed: women playing male parts in RSC productions.

Which is why the picture at the top of this article is Dame Helen Mirren in her role as Prospera in Julie Taymor‘s The Tempest. Not an RSC production in any way, but there you go.

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