Pop Culture Roundup Aug. 22, 2006

Happy anniversary to the Booksteve Library blog! And to me! I've been married 14 years today.

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Check out the big list of comics in yer local shop tomorrow.

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Bob Adelman, blogger of all things Will Eisner, interviews Deborah Del Prete, producer of the upcoming film based on Eisner's "The Spirit" comics series.

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Comics creators Neal Adams, Dave Cockrum, Jack Dann, Peter David, Colleen Doran, Jeffrey Jones, Joe Kubert, Stan Lee, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Michael W. Kaluta and others are contributing to a one-shot anthology to benefit the Israeli children's charity. More info. Seems like children on the other side of the recent conflict over there could use benefitting too...

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Bob Dylan on whether it's ok to download music for free: "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."

"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them," he added. "There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like ... static."
More.

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Warner's is releasing the straight-to-DVD "Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas" Nov. 14.

Daffy Duck stars as the "Scrooge-like" proprietor of the "Lucky Duck" mega-mart in this all new, first ever Looney Tunes made-for-video movie based on the classic holiday tale, "A Christmas Carol." To take financial advantage of last minute shoppers, Daffy demands that his employees, including his long suffering manager, Porky Pig, work on Christmas Day instead of spending the holiday with their families. It's up to Bugs Bunny and the ghosts of Christmas past (Tweety and Granny), present (Yosemite Sam) and future (Taz) to make sure that Daffy realizes the error of his ways and save Christmas for the Looney Tunes gang.

The movie also is set to air on the Cartoon Network at some point during the holidays.

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A planned "Doctor Who" spinoff featuring the Doc's former companion Billie Piper has been scrapped.

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