Pop Culture Roundup May 8, 2007

An expanded version of Paul McCartney's upcoming album, Memory Almost Full, features three extra tracks.

...the three tracks are called "Why So Blue," "222," and "In Private."

You can pre-order by the expanded and regular editions of the album now from Amazon.

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You can see a new, 15-minute Spinal Tap film here.

Featuring original cast members Christopher Guest, Michael
McKean and Harry Shearer, the short film looks at the fake band's preparations for the very much real Live Earth festival coming up in July.

Info:

Live Earth is designed to trigger a mass movement to combat our climate crisis.

On 7/7/07, Live Earth will be a defining musical event with more than 100 headliners performing live on all 7 continents and being broadcast globally through television, radio, web, wireless and other media platforms. These music artists will inspire an audience of more than 2 billion people worldwide to make meaningful and lasting changes in their lives to turn the tide on global warming.


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Via Bedazzled: A gallery of teen-exploitation paperback covers.

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Buffy and Angel magazine is shutting down. The final issue is cover-dated May and will be on newstands this month.



Best Buffy Sites.

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See a new trailer for "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer."

Best Fantastic Four Sites.

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Dial B for Burbank presents lobby cards from old Shadow movie serials.

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The Sci Fi Channel plans a programming block of anime TV series.

The...new anime block will get off to a rousing start on Monday June 11th at 11 p.m. (ET, PT) with the U.S. broadcast premier of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society movie (see "Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society"), which won't be available on DVD until July 3rd.

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Exerpted from an upcoming issue of his great Alter Ego mag, Roy Thomas talks about adapting the first Star Wars movie to comics.

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Doctor Who fans may dig "Dalek I Loved You," a memoir of growing up in Britain during the Tom Baker years.

Dalek I Loved You is an irresistible memoir of a childhood lived through the 1970s and 1980s. Writing with wit and humour, Griffiths takes us on a poignant and often hilarious journey through his childhood, where he first encountered Dr Who, into his teens where he is packed off to boarding school and discovers girls and David Bowie, onto his first formative years of employment at some hip but now defunct music magazines and into life as a father and husband who is now writing about his childhood passion for a living.

Best Doctor Who sites.

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Canada's Globe and Mail checks in with Beatles producer George Martin.

Once Martin had the Beatles under his wing, the group's manager, Brian Epstein, began to send a bevy of Liverpudlians to Martin. He duly produced many chart-breakers for the likes of Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, among others. In fact, in Britain in 1963, for 34 weeks the No. 1 hit was a song produced by Martin. "It had never been done before," he said with undiminished pride, "and it never will be done again."

Best Beatles sites.

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