Saw that one. Very curious as to the reasons why. And I hope if the children are taken away indefinitely and given to foster parents or eventually adopted, the new parents get a free re-name token.
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Two naughty acronym teams / Ascension / Convenient / Artic and the Chillz / Fap / Other teams I can't remember (sorry.. mind is goin')
Generic Son 0000000001?
That kid is gonna have issues...
Didn't I say that already?
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The Batman is dead.
Read it again, The Batman is dead.
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The Batman pics are at the bottom of the review.
Didn't they already do that with a host of other major characters?
Ikea Builds Own Oval Office for Obama
Brandweek.com
Jan 12, 2009
-By Elaine Wong
Ikea's got Obama fever. Taking example from other large brandsincluding Ben & Jerry's and Hewlett-Packardthe Swedish home products retailer today kicked off an out-of-home ad campaign called "Embrace Change '09" that honors President-elect Barack Obama.
The effort centers on an Oval Office replica inside Union Station in Washington, D.C. Through Wednesday, those walking down Union Square's Main Hall can see the Oval Office furnished with Ikea furniture.
"Embrace Change '09" is meant to "celebrate the change" that is coming to the White House, while driving foot traffic to two nearby Ikea stores (in College Park, Md. and Woodbridge, Va.), said Ikea public relations manager Marty Marston.
The integrated campaign includes out-of-home billboards featuring the "Embrace Change 09" slogan on local buses and trains. Ikea is also holding a "mock motorcade," touring the D.C. area Jan. 15-16. Ikea will strap "furniture fit for a president" on top of vehicles to symbolize the incoming president and his family moving into their new home.
Other components include a site, www.embracechange09.com, where Ikea fans can design their own Oval Office using a drop-and-drag click tool, and a $1,500 gift card giveaway to visitors who log onto the site.
Ikea, which spent $82 million on U.S. advertising through Oct. 2008 (excluding online), per Nielsen Monitor-Plus, said the campaign's significance is on par, if not greater than promotions for new store openings.
"We have never had an opportunity to do anything surrounding the message of change from a national standpoint," Marston said, adding that Ikea seized a good branding opportunity. "[Obama's] notion of change and his commitment to fiscal responsibility match the Ikea philosophy of practical and affordable home furnishings for all."
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Last major person I know of that's gotten killed off was Captain America but that was Marvel.
For DC the last person killed was the Martian Manhunter (see also: lolmartianmanhunter) and before that Mister Superman to Doomsday.
Plus...it's Batman!
It's been my experience that DC doesn't kill off characters *nearly* as often as Marvel does. Seriously, how many times are they going kill (and subsequently rez) Jean Grey before they just let that poor girl rest in peace??
Someone will pass him a 'wakie, or maybe that was his BatDecoy that he pulled out of his utility belt or some such.
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It was Jason Todd in the Batman outfit... they killed him AGAIN!
No?
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It's been my experience that DC doesn't kill off characters *nearly* as often as Marvel does. Seriously, how many times are they going kill (and subsequently rez) Jean Grey before they just let that poor girl rest in peace??
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Well they do that for 2 reasons:
1: She falls under the same category of Wolverine. Artists love Wolverine since he heals so fast they can actually have him get maimed or injured in any concievable way and just walk it off. Jean is basically immortal so writers get the liberty of killing her off without any major repercussions cause she can come back at anytime.
2: That's just the nature of her being the Phoenix folklore and otherwise, giant cycle of death and rebirth.
She's currently on the rebirth cycle and is bouncing through time as an infant with her "son" Cable, who's like 50 and was born from her clone who is now the queen of a demonic dimension.
Anyone's head explode yet?
Goodbye Khan 
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Ricardo Montalban dies at 88
Associated Press
By Bob Thomas, Associated Press Writer
January 14, 2008
LOS ANGELES Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV's "Fantasy Island," died Wednesday morning at his home, a city councilman said. He was 88.
Montalban's death was announced at a city council meeting by president Eric Garcetti, who represents the district where the actor lived. Garcetti did not give a cause of death.
"What you saw on the screen and on television and on talk shows, this very courtly, modest, dignified individual, that's exactly who he was," said Montalban's longtime friend and publicist David Brokaw.
Montalban had been a star in Mexican movies when MGM brought him to Hollywood in 1946. He was cast in the leading role opposite Esther Williams in "Fiesta," and starred again with the swimming beauty in "On an Island with You" and "Neptune's Daughter."
But Montalban was best known as the faintly mysterious, white-suited Mr. Roarke, who presided over a tropical island resort where visitors were able to fulfill their lifelong dreams usually at the unexpected expense of a difficult life lesson. Following a floatplane landing and lei ceremony, he greeted each guest with the line: "I am Mr. Roarke, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Island."
The show ran from 1978 to 1984.
More recently, he appeared as villains in two hits of the 1980s: "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" and the farcical "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad."
Between movie and TV roles, Montalban was active in the theater. He starred on Broadway in the 1957 musical "Jamaica" opposite Lena Horne, picking up a Tony nomination for best actor in a musical.
He toured in Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," playing Don Juan, a performance critic John Simon later recalled as "irresistible." In 1965 he appeared on tour in the Yul Brynner role in "The King and I."
"The Ricardo Montalban Theatre in my Council District where the next generations of performers participate in plays, musicals, and concerts stands as a fitting tribute to this consummate performer," Garcetti said later in a written statement.
"Fantasy Island" received high ratings for most of its run on ABC, and still appears in reruns. Mr. Roarke and his sidekick, Tattoo, played by the 3-foot, 11-inch Herve Villechaize, reached the state of TV icons. Villechaize died in 1993.
In a 1978 interview, Montalban analyzed the series's success:
"What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy, it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities."
As for Mr. Roarke: "Was he a magician? A hypnotist? Did he use hallucinogenic drugs? I finally came across a character that works for me. He has the essence of mystery, but I need a point of view so that my performance is consistent. I now play him 95 percent believable and 5 percent mystery. He doesn't have to behave mysteriously; only what he does is mysterious."
In 1970, Montalban organized fellow Latino actors into an organization called Nosotros ("We"), and he became the first president. Their aim: to improve the image of Spanish-speaking Americans on the screen; to assure that Latin-American actors were not discriminated against; to stimulate Latino actors to study their profession.
Montalban commented in a 1970 interview:
"The Spanish-speaking American boy sees Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid wipe out a regiment of Bolivian soldiers. He sees `The Wild Bunch' annihilate the Mexican army. It's only natural for him to say, `Gee, I wish I were an Anglo.'"
Montalban was no stranger to prejudice. He was born Nov. 25, 1920, in Mexico City, the son of parents who had emigrated from Spain. The boy was brought up to speak the Castilian Spanish of his forebears. To Mexican ears that sounded strange and effeminate, and young Ricardo was jeered by his schoolmates.
His mother also dressed him with old-country formality, and he wore lace collars and short pants "long after my legs had grown long and hairy," he wrote in his 1980 autobiography, "Reflections: A Life in Two Worlds."
"It is not easy to grow up in a country that has different customs from your own family's."
While driving through Texas with his brother, Montalban recalled seeing a sign on a diner: "No Dogs or Mexicans Allowed." In Los Angeles, where he attended Fairfax High School, he and a friend were refused entrance to a dance hall because they were Mexicans.
Rather than seek a career in Hollywood, Montalban played summer stock in New York. He returned to Mexico City and played leading roles in movies from 1941 to 1945. That led to an MGM contract.
Besides the Williams spectacles, the handsome actor appeared in "Sombrero" (opposite Pier Angeli), "Two Weeks With Love" (Jane Powell) and "Latin Lovers" (Lana Turner).
He also appeared in dramatic roles in such films as "Border Incident," "Battleground," "Mystery Street" and "Right Cross."
"Movies were never kind to me; I had to fight for every inch of film," he reflected in 1970. "Usually my best scenes would end up on the cutting-room floor."
Montalban had better luck after leaving MGM in 1953, though he was usually cast in ethnic roles. He appeared as a Japanese kabuki actor in "Sayonara" and an Indian in "Cheyenne Autumn." His other films included: "Madame X," "The Singing Nun," "Sweet Charity," "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" and "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes."
Montalban was sometimes said to be the source of Billy Crystal's "you look MAHvelous" character on "Saturday Night Live," though the inspiration was really Argentinian-born actor Fernando Lamas.
In 1944, Montalban married Georgiana Young, actress and model and younger sister of actress Loretta Young. Both Roman Catholics, they remained one of Hollywood's most devoted couples. She died in 2007. They had four children: Laura, Mark, Anita and Victor.
Montalban suffered a spinal injury in a horse fall while making a 1951 Clark Gable Western, "Across the Wide Missouri," and thereafter walked with a limp he managed to mask during his performances.
In 1993, Montalban lost the feeling in his leg, and exhaustive tests showed that he had suffered a small hemorrhage in his neck, similar to the injury decades earlier. He underwent 9 1/2 hours of spinal surgery at UCLA Medical Center.
Despite the constant pain, the actor was able to take a role in an Aaron Spelling TV series, "Heaven Help Us." Twice a month in 1994, he flew to San Antonio for two or three days of filming as an angel who watched over a young couple.
In an interview at the time, Montalban remarked: "I've never given up hope. But I have to be realistic. I gave my tennis rackets to my son, figuring I'll never play again. But my doctor said, `Don't say that. Strange things happen. You never know.'"
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AP entertainment writer Sandy Cohen contributed to this story.
KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!
KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!
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It's been my experience that DC doesn't kill off characters *nearly* as often as Marvel does. Seriously, how many times are they going kill (and subsequently rez) Jean Grey before they just let that poor girl rest in peace??
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Well they do that for 2 reasons:
1: She falls under the same category of Wolverine. Artists love Wolverine since he heals so fast they can actually have him get maimed or injured in any concievable way and just walk it off. Jean is basically immortal so writer's get the liberty of killing her off without any major reprocussions cause she can come back at anytime.
2: That's just the nature of her being the Phoenix folklore and otherwise, giant cycle of death and rebirth.
She's currently on the rebirth cycle and is bouncing through time as an infant with her "son" Cable, who's like 50 and was born from her clone who is now the queen of a demonic dimension.
Anyone's head explode yet?
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Plus the guys at Marvel love tormenting Logan, Scott, and, of course, all of the fans of the redheaded beauty.
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She's currently on the rebirth cycle and is bouncing through time as an infant with her "son" Cable, who's like 50 and was born from her clone who is now the queen of a demonic dimension.
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This is why I don't really read a lot of comics. I don't watch daytime soap operas, either. I can suspend my disbelief for all kinds of crazy things like laser beam eyes and using a move called Head Splitter to "arrest" someone, but I can't cope with evil twins and mothers being raised by their own sons. That just speaks of desperate writers. Next thing you know, someone wakes up in the morning and a "dead" person walks out of the shower to tell her it was all just a crazy dream.
Matt Groening once said that when a TV show adds a new character for new reason other than to try to regain some audience (He specifically named The Great Gazoo, but this includes Cousin Oliver and whatever the name was of the kid Leonardo DiCaprio played on Growing Pains) and not advance the plot, you know the show is going nowhere and he identifies that as the "Jump the Shark" moment. For me it's usually whenever they "kill" someone and have the person come back from the dead. (E.g. Denny on Grey's Anatomy this season. WTF!) Comics bring in new villains and I don't think that's a bad thing. Killing off the main character is what, to me, screams: "We are totally stuck here and desperate for a reset or some way to dig ourselves out of this hole/rut we're in." I guess I can't judge them too harshly, though. It's gotta be hard to come up with something "new and different" when you're working on a franchise that's been around as many decades as these characters have.
~Missi
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Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
I heard about Ricardo Montalban on my way home from work last night and literally had a hand over the mouth "oh no" moment. I know he's Khan to many here but he will always be Mr. Roake to me.
Move over, Saint Peter. When I get to heaven, I want Ricardo Montalban to welcome me to Fantasy Island.
~Missi
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Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
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I heard about Ricardo Montalban on my way home from work last night and literally had a hand over the mouth "oh no" moment. I know he's Khan to many here but he will always be Mr. Roake to me.
Move over, Saint Peter. When I get to heaven, I want Ricardo Montalban to welcome me to Fantasy Island.
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I read your post to Somber and and at the St. Peter part, he just nodded his head approvingly and said, "Yes....yes..."
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She's currently on the rebirth cycle and is bouncing through time as an infant with her "son" Cable, who's like 50 and was born from her clone who is now the queen of a demonic dimension.
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This is why I don't really read a lot of comics. I don't watch daytime soap operas, either. I can suspend my disbelief for all kinds of crazy things like laser beam eyes and using a move called Head Splitter to "arrest" someone, but I can't cope with evil twins and mothers being raised by their own sons. That just speaks of desperate writers. Next thing you know, someone wakes up in the morning and a "dead" person walks out of the shower to tell her it was all just a crazy dream.
Matt Groening once said that when a TV show adds a new character for new reason other than to try to regain some audience (He specifically named The Great Gazoo, but this includes Cousin Oliver and whatever the name was of the kid Leonardo DiCaprio played on Growing Pains) and not advance the plot, you know the show is going nowhere and he identifies that as the "Jump the Shark" moment. For me it's usually whenever they "kill" someone and have the person come back from the dead. (E.g. Denny on Grey's Anatomy this season. WTF!) Comics bring in new villains and I don't think that's a bad thing. Killing off the main character is what, to me, screams: "We are totally stuck here and desperate for a reset or some way to dig ourselves out of this hole/rut we're in." I guess I can't judge them too harshly, though. It's gotta be hard to come up with something "new and different" when you're working on a franchise that's been around as many decades as these characters have.
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"I watched you die in my arms" - Jack Bauer to Tony
Huh? Jack Bauer jumping the shark? NNNNOOOOOO!!! Jack would bite the shark and then torture it!
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I'm going to need a hacksaw. -- Jack Bauer
I just lost my chicken - Bubbles
Aaawwk! I can feel it in my choadies - Hank Venture
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"I watched you die in my arms" - Jack Bauer to Tony
Huh? Jack Bauer jumping the shark? NNNNOOOOOO!!! Jack would bite the shark and then torture it!
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My stupid DVR didn't record the first 2 hours of the 24 season premier. I plan on catching up online this weekend.
~Missi
http://tinyurl.com/yhy333s
Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
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I heard about Ricardo Montalban on my way home from work last night and literally had a hand over the mouth "oh no" moment. I know he's Khan to many here but he will always be Mr. Roake to me.
Move over, Saint Peter. When I get to heaven, I want Ricardo Montalban to welcome me to Fantasy Island.
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I read your post to Somber and and at the St. Peter part, he just nodded his head approvingly and said, "Yes....yes..."
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~Missi
http://tinyurl.com/yhy333s
Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
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"I watched you die in my arms" - Jack Bauer to Tony
Huh? Jack Bauer jumping the shark? NNNNOOOOOO!!! Jack would bite the shark and then torture it!
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My stupid DVR didn't record the first 2 hours of the 24 season premier. I plan on catching up online this weekend.
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Just fyi (for anyone else concerned), you can also get caught up here.
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KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!
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This has been my ringtone for a couple of years now, its a little more meaningful now.
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"I watched you die in my arms" - Jack Bauer to Tony
Huh? Jack Bauer jumping the shark? NNNNOOOOOO!!! Jack would bite the shark and then torture it!
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My stupid DVR didn't record the first 2 hours of the 24 season premier. I plan on catching up online this weekend.
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Just fyi (for anyone else concerned), you can also get caught up here.
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Thanks! I haven't tried fancast before, but I see it's linked to hulu.com. Yay hulu! I know a lot of shows can also be viewed IMDB.com these days (also thanks to hulu). I like having options. Some of the players the different networks use are terrible! ABC has a good one I like very much, but the one CBS has is terrible. Not that I use the CBS one anymore now they they don't have full episode of The Big Bang Theory.
~Missi
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Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
Khan.
"His Imperial Majesty's Minister of Restraints and Leather" -LHF
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She's currently on the rebirth cycle and is bouncing through time as an infant with her "son" Cable, who's like 50 and was born from her clone who is now the queen of a demonic dimension.
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This is why I don't really read a lot of comics. I don't watch daytime soap operas, either. I can suspend my disbelief for all kinds of crazy things like laser beam eyes and using a move called Head Splitter to "arrest" someone, but I can't cope with evil twins and mothers being raised by their own sons. That just speaks of desperate writers. Next thing you know, someone wakes up in the morning and a "dead" person walks out of the shower to tell her it was all just a crazy dream.
Matt Groening once said that when a TV show adds a new character for new reason other than to try to regain some audience (He specifically named The Great Gazoo, but this includes Cousin Oliver and whatever the name was of the kid Leonardo DiCaprio played on Growing Pains) and not advance the plot, you know the show is going nowhere and he identifies that as the "Jump the Shark" moment. For me it's usually whenever they "kill" someone and have the person come back from the dead. (E.g. Denny on Grey's Anatomy this season. WTF!) Comics bring in new villains and I don't think that's a bad thing. Killing off the main character is what, to me, screams: "We are totally stuck here and desperate for a reset or some way to dig ourselves out of this hole/rut we're in." I guess I can't judge them too harshly, though. It's gotta be hard to come up with something "new and different" when you're working on a franchise that's been around as many decades as these characters have.
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IMO any t.v. show that is purely plot driven (Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, etc.) can only have a finite number of seasons. The only shows that can survive for a much long time are sitcoms (Scrubs, Seinfeld, etc.). I think it was Lost that was going to be 6 seasons long, and then they wanted to push it farther and it completely sucked the entire season when they did that.
I particularly liked Avatar: The Last Airbender because it was only 3 seasons. I think perhaps they could have done 4, but I was very satisfied with it.
all righty, end of rant!
Little Adolf Hitler is in the news again...
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Adolf Hitler, Sisters Taken from Parents' Home
NBC Philadelphia
By Vince Lattanzio
Updated 12:13 PM EST, Wed, Jan 14, 2009
Remember 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell?
Hes the little boy whose name was the center of an international firestorm last December after a Greenwich, N.J., supermarket refused to write his name on a birthday cake. The store said it was inappropriate and refused to give an apology after the parents demanded one.
Adolf and his two sisters -- one-year-old JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and 8-month-old Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell -- were removed from their parents home Tuesday night by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services, Holland Township police chief David Van Gilson told LehighValleyLive.com.
It is unclear why the children were removed from their parents home. Gilson said his department did not receive any reports of abuse or negligence.
Heath and Deborah Campbell, the children's parents, were scheduled to appear for an undisclosed hearing Tuesday, but it was postponed, according to the website.
Due to confidentiality laws, Kate Bernyk with the N.J. Division of Youth and Family Services would not comment or even acknowledge any involvement with the Campbells when NBC10s Doug Shimell contacted them.
DYFS isnt talking much about the Campbells situation, but the kids being taken away has nothing to do with the names and birthday cake issue in December, according to Sgt. John Harris, Holland Twp. Police in Milford, N.J.
Calls to the childrens parents were met with a message that the line had been temporarily disconnected.