News and Notes 
Candy Land movie in the works
Hollywood is apparently so starved for ideas that even board game film adaptations no longer seem like such a bad idea. According to Variety, Enchanted director Kevin Lima is attached to a live-action film version of the popular Hasbro board game based on a screenplay penned by Etan Cohen, the comic genius who wrote Idiocracy […]
Postage stamp world
By Ann Davis Yesterday, I had to go to the post office. Accustomed to long PO lines, I’d thought ahead and brought a book – which the clerk thought was funny, because there was only one other customer in there, and she was already being helped by another staffer. After mailing a package, the clerk […]
Say it ain’t so, Van
Can someone please tell me that there has been some kind of mistake and that the above photo is not the real album cover for the live recording of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks concerts at the Hollywood Bowl? For crying out loud, the name of one of the best albums of all time is hot […]
Day-Lewis and Del Toro to star in Shusaku Endo adaptation?
Variety is reporting that Daniel Day Lewis and Benicio Del Toro are in negotiations to star in Martin Scorcese’s next film, an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s masterpiece novel “Silence.” The story centers around two 17th century Jesuit priests who face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan as missionaries. Scorcese has reportedly had the […]
Fleet Foxes not signing to Virgin
In hopes of emphatically putting to rest a rumor stoked by the Seattle Weekly that Fleet Foxes had signed to Virgin, the band’s frontman, Robin Pecknold, posted a mouthful about major record labels on the band’s MySpace page Thursday. The meat: Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes […]
Great Lake Swimmers to tour U.S.
News surfaced earlier this week that the Great Lake Swimmers will be touring the U.S. to support their fourth full-length album, Lost Channels (due out 3/31 on Nettwerk Music Group). I almost didn’t want to post the tour dates because I’m disappointed there aren’t any planned stops in Louisville, but here they are: Select January […]
Benjamin Button scores 13 Oscar nominations
The Curious Case of Forrest Gump, I mean, Benjamin Button, led the way with a stunning 13 Oscar nominations for the 81st Academy Awards. Slumdog Millionaire also scored big in the nominations announced early Thursday morning, adding to its already large collection of award considerations with 10. Joining Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire in the best […]
Don’t pitch your Polaroid just yet
If you own one of those fancy Polaroid cameras that only use film no longer in production, hang on for another year. A group of Dutch artists have purchased a shuttered Polaroid factory in the Netherlands, equipment included, and plan to have a new line of instant film pumping out of the place again in 2010. The film […]