Pop culture roundup: Paul McCartney - fashion icon; comic shop reality TV series; Barbarella TV series; Yoko Ono collaborates with Sonic Youth members!

What makes a man stylish? A 1969 magazing article on Paul McCartney explores.






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Either geek culture is reaching its apex, or the reality trend is running out of ideas: The National Geographic channel has announced a new series focusing on comic book shop owners and denizens:

 On Friday, July13th at 8pm (ET, PT) the National Geographic cable channel will present Comic Store Heroes, a one-hour reality show set in New York’s Midtown Comics.  The documentary-style show will follow the lives of staffers Gerry, Thor, and Alex as they deal with all sorts of geek and enthusiast customers while simultaneously planning their booth at the New York Comic Con.

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Holy crap! Missed this video from the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert. Note that Grace Jones is in her early 60s and keeps that hoop spinning through the whole song.


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A Barbarella TV series may be in the works.
Gaumont International Television and producer Martha De Laurentiis are teaming with Drive director Nicolas Refn for a series that will be based on the character created by Jean-Claude Forest in a graphic novel and made famous in the 1968 sci-fi movie staring Jane Fonda as a sexpot tasked with finding and stopping the evil weapons inventor.
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Yoko Ono has a new, 14-minute, single out in collaboration with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon and a full-length album is due out this fall.


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