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Peter Callesen’s paper art is amazing…

notstarring.com is a movie trivia site with entried on “Your favorite stars, and the roles they didn’t get.” As WFMU’s Beware Of The Blog says,

Jodie Foster as Princess Leia in Star Wars? Elvis Presley as Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy? Lucille Ball as Scarlett in Gone With the Wind? … Judy Garland as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate? Alfred Hitchcock directing The Exorcist? Alfred Hitchcock directing Rosemary’s Baby? Sally Field as Alice in Friday the 13th? Meat Loaf as Bluto in Animal House? Holly Hunter in Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn? Orson Welles in THX 1138? John Travolta in Splash? Molly Ringwald in Blue Velvet? … Drew Barrymore as Nomi in Showgirls? Bette Midler as Annie Wilkes in Misery? Ice Cube in Forrest Gump? … Madonna in Brazil? The searchable, cross-referenced NotStarring.com database shows you who almost was… but eventually was not cast in the roles of a zillion different films, and opens up a Pandora’s box of alternate cinematic universes.

Well worth a visit…

Discover magazine isn’t kidding around when it discusses The Extreme Sport of Origami…

Those of you who are fans of The Adventures of Tintin comic strips (one of my all-time favorites!) will probably appreciate the Wikipedia entry List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock. 🙂

Yahoo reports that Russia is remaking some U.S. sitcoms. First of all, I feel sorry that Russians will be subjected to any versions of Suddenly Susan and Full House. Second of all, I am very interested to see their angle on Perfect Strangers… 😉

For you weather buffs, I came across two nice sites with photo galleries of interesting clouds:

• Strange Clouds
• Cloud Appreciation Society

The latest news about the upcoming Iron Man movie is that Robert Downey Jr. is alledgedly starring. I suppose I can see him, as the character is supposed to be somewhat troubled. Still, a lot could change before the movie premieres in 2008…

Now that the eighteenth season (!) of The Simpsons is upon us, someone took the time to post a YouTube video of all of the couch gags from the 16th and 17th seasons.

According to CNN, an unfinished J.R.R. Tolkien work entitled The Children of Hurin will be published in 2007. Christopher Tolkien, son of The Lord Of The Rings (among many other works) author J.R.R. Tolkien, has previously compiled unfinished works of his father into the twelve-volume History Of Middle-Earth series, but this will mark the first time a complete work has been released by him. I definitely look forward to reading it…

Platypus Comix has collected a whole lot of rare Bill Watterson artwork and merchandise. For those of you who don’t recognize that name, Watterson is the author of the seminal comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, one of my all-time favorites.