Pop Culture Roundup Aug. 15, 2006

There's a new Beatles beatleg podcast up.

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UK musician Captain Sensible, a former member of pioneering punk band the Damned, has started a new political party in Britain.

The Blah! Party [is] campaigning for no-nonsense, straight-talking politics and aims to become the biggest political party in the UK with over 300,000 members. He's fed up with people marching on Westminster and then nothing happening, so he wants to take the politicians on, on their own turf. Come election time he wants people to vote for The Blah! Party and register a protest vote, then they'll be forced to listen. Your support would really be appreciated and everybody else who is currently fed up with the state of British politics.

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Via BoingBoing: More great vintage punk/new wave videos, this time with the Flying Lizards, X-ray Spex and Bow Wow Wow.

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Booksteve evaluates people's fascination with Wonder Woman weirdness.

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Deal alert: Amazon is offering the 8-DVD "Mel Brooks Collection" for $52. 97, a 47 percent discount. The set includes Blazing Saddles / Young Frankenstein / Silent Movie / Robin Hood: Men in Tights / To Be or Not to Be / History of the World, Part 1 / The Twelve Chairs / High Anxiety.

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A new documentary DVD and anthology album pay tribute to late Small Faces/Faces bassist Ronnie Lane.

Lane, who succumbed to multiple sclerosis in 1997, is best known to American listeners for such '60s and '70s hits as "Itchycoo Park" and "Ooh La La" and for his well-publicized fight against his disease. But that's a fraction of the story, and Lane's amazing life and his little-heard solo work are coming to light with the DVD release of a new documentary and a CD anthology.

Just issued by Eagle Vision, "The Passing Show" is a feature, produced and directed as a labor of love by BBC staffers Rupert Williams and James Mackie, that takes a deep look at Lane's career. "Just for a Moment," released by Lane Signature Sounds through indie Burnside Distribution, marks the first American CD release for many of Lane's finest solo recordings.


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NPR has a piece on the ultra rare tome "The Book of Bond," a 1965 work on 007 by Sir Kingsley Amis, published under the pen name William (Bill) Tanner.



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It's time to boycott Fox TV, methinks.

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Via PCL LinkDump: A gorgeous collection of paper "programs" designed for movie releases in Germany. Here's one for "Roman Holiday."



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Beatles producer Sir George Martin has been inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.

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More deal alerts: Amazon is offering 50 percent off on DVD box sets collecting the Marx Brothers, Looney Tunes, Tarzan films, James Dean, Cary Grant, Elvis, John Wayne and more.

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