Pop Culture Roundup May 2, 2007

Deal alert: From Amazon--buy one TV DVD season set, get a second one free.

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Neato Coolville launches a month-long "Star Wars" retrospective with scans from vintage magazine and articles and other ephemera surrounding the release of that first flick 30 years ago.

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Newsarama has details on Image Comics' reprinting of Jack Kirby's late career series "Silver Star."

Erik Larsen: ...Jack wrote a screenplay years earlier and the Silver Star comic was adapted from that. Silver Star, as well as Captain Victory, were Jack's creator-owned work at Pacific Comics. We'll be publishing Captain Victory later this year. We're treating these projects with reverence they deserve, by painstakingly re-mastering the color in a manner that Jack would be proud of. Overseeing the restoration has been a gas.

You can pre-order the Silver Star hardcover now from Amazon for $26.59 (cover price $34.99)



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Bob Newhart sidekick Tom Poston has passed away.

Poston's run as a comic bumbler began in the mid-1950s with "The Steve Allen Show" after Allen plucked the character actor from the Broadway stage to join an ensemble of eccentrics he would conduct "man in the street" interviews with.

Don Knotts was the shaky Mr. Morrison, Louis Nye was the suave, overconfident Gordon Hathaway and Poston's character was so unnerved by the television cameras that he couldn't remember who he was. He won an Emmy playing "The Man Who Can't Remember His Name."


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