Live from Hall H: Frank Miller Atones for The
Spirit, Fans Get Up and Leave [Comic-Con 2008]

First and foremost, it is worth mentioning that I went into the panel for Frank Miller's The Spirit this afternoon at Comic-Con with guns loaded, ready to shoot this movie out of the sky. From the time we saw the first batch of fully rendered photos from the film, I ...

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Kelsey Grammer Brings The 'Tonight Show' House
Down [Short Ends]

· Kelsey Grammer dropped by The Tonight Show to talk about what it feels like to have a near-fatal heart attack, and the devastating cancellation of Back To You, and the phone call to his hospital bed telling him to clear his Fox offices, and the death of his dog, and the death of his mother. Happy weekend, everyone! [The Tonight Show]
· Just a little taste of what you're missing at Comic-Con. (Warning: May contain traces of bespandexed nutsack.) [Wired]
· The final Britney/K-Fed verdict is in. She has to pay him $20,000 a month in ridiculous-watch-game upkeep fees. [Reuters]
· A rundown of what Comic-Con visitors saw at today's The Wolfman panel included some footage and an eerie tagline—"The power of Satan to change men into beasts?—that we're almost positive was used in a Paris Hilton fragrance campaign. [AICN]
·And finally, we proudly present one of God's Mistakes: The pigkey. [BWE.tv]

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Comic Con: Watchmen Footage Revealed

Director Zack Snyder and the entire Watchmen gang had a lot to live up to at Comic Con after that extensive teaser trailer took the world by storm in front of all those Dark Knight screenings. As it turns out, they weren’t quite able to live up to it, but that’s not at all a [...]

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Nothing Neil Patrick Harris Can Say On 'The View'
Will Dissuade Us From Reporting That Britney Spears Has Eight Heads [Dept Of Backhanded Compliments]

With two days of dog-hair-flinging and abortion confessionals throwing The View set into chaos, the impish presence of noted slingback sprite Neil Patrick Harris came as a welcome relief. Of course, the panel went straight in for the Britney kill: Harris was open about the experience of hosting the troubled singer's two-episode guest arc on How I Met Your Mother, noting that she was "out of her element," but that it was "cool" and that "she's looking better now." Still, burned before, he acknowledged that anything he said would likely be twisted beyond recognition by a scandal-hungry celebrity media machine. He then insinuated, with nothing more than a cocked eyebrow and sidelong glance to Whoopi Goldberg, that Britney propositioned the five series regulars with a celebratory wrap orgy.

• The View

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Nothing Neil Patrick Harris Can Say On 'The View'
Can Dissuade Us From Reporting That Britney Spears Had Eight Heads [Dept Of Backhanded Compliments]

With two days of dog-hair-flinging and abortion confessionals throwing The View set into chaos, the impish presence of noted slingback sprite Neil Patrick Harris came as a welcome relief. Of course, the panel went straight in for the Britney kill: Harris was open about the experience of hosting the troubled singer's two-episode guest arc on How I Met Your Mother, noting that she was "out of her element," but that it was "cool" and that "she's looking better now." Still, burned before, he acknowledged that anything he said would likely be twisted beyond recognition by a scandal-hungry celebrity media machine. He then insinuated, with nothing more than a cocked eyebrow and sidelong glance to Whoopi Goldberg, that Britney propositioned the five series regulars with a celebratory wrap orgy.

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If It Weren't For Those Silly No-Smoking,
No-Cursing Rules, Katherine Heigl Would Totally Go Mormon [Vices]

Katherine Heigl has never failed to shock us, whether she?s yapping about her highly tuned gaydar or wearing dresses made out of The Darjeeling Limited's costume leftovers. But her latest comments on her childhood spent growing up Mormon suggest that, on top of burning Emasculated Husband Joshua Kelley?s pinky finger and forcing him to wait until the very second her biological clock beeps ?Procreate!? to have kids, she may even make the poor guy raise said kids Big Love-style. As she recently told a British tab:

?I'm not as disciplined about it was I once was, but I hope to find my way back as I get older and a little less selfish...I'm ashamed to say that I've just got very lazy about it. I satisfy my vices instead of fighting them.?

And this is certainly not the first time Hollywood Public Enemy Heigl has spoken out about her ?support? of the Church. A colorful collection of quotes she?s given throughout the years on the Mormon religion, after the jump:

On Her Mostly Mormon Friends:
USA Today, 2007:

"I haven't [practiced] since I was about 19 or 20, when I moved to L.A. and was working a lot. I couldn't find a ward I was comfortable in. It kind of petered out mostly because of that. My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know."

On Raising Her Kids Mormon:
Glamour, 2007:

"I?m having a glass of white wine right now; that?s not exactly being a good Mormon! But I am really supportive of the Mormon church and so profoundly grateful for the childhood I had. It?s hard work to grow and change and be honest with yourself about your mistakes, and I think the Mormons handle that beautifully. The faith I grew up with has influenced every decision I?ve made in my life ? well, except for the bad ones! I haven?t decided yet. I?ve always thought I would raise [my children] Mormon because I had such a wonderful childhood."

On The Church's Influence On Her Childhood:
Vanity Fair, 2008:

"A couple of Mormon families were a great comfort [after the death of her brother when Heigl was seven years old]. Both my parents felt a great desire for answers, and they found an answer in the Mormon church. Everything was kind of a mess for a while. It wasn?t like Ordinary People, where it destroyed that family so badly that there was never finding any joy or loving or appreciating being alive again. But I give my parents unbelievable credit for pulling it together, and I give the Mormon church a lot of credit for helping them to do that.?

[Photo credit: Wireimage]

• KATHERINE HEIGL WANTS TO GO MORMON AGAIN [Star]

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KIYOSHI KUROSAWA BLOGATHONThe Scintillating
Jellyfish of Bright Future

In Jungian psychology there is a term, scintilla, which alludes to a spark of light in the depths of dark water, which references a glimmer of consciousness shining forth from the darkest space or the darkest recesses of the unconscious. Renaissance images of the Christ Child born in the dark depths of a cave correspond to this image. Among Tibetan Buddhists there is also the meditative practice of learning how to generate light in darkness or?thought of alternately?creating opportunity out of adversity. This practice of engendering light in darkness has a pan-Shamanic substratum which links back to Siberian and Native American practices of similar intent. It is, as if to say, or as Jung referenced Heraclitus, enantiodromia?that great reversal?happens as much in the human psyche as it does in nature, which are in gist one and the same. We know through aquatic biology that in the black depths of the sea there exist aquatic creatures who create light out of themselves. (As a smiling aside, I think of Dory in Finding Nemo who responds to a mesmerizing bit of light by saying: "I want to touch it.")

All of this is to say that Kurosawa's depiction of glowing jellyfish let loose in the canals of Tokyo was for me one of the most brilliant and thrilling testaments of eternal hope. Even in apocalyptic obfuscation, there is always this speck of light, this bright future, hovering beneath the dark surface of things. The scene where the father watches the glowing jellyfish in the water even as the Tokyo skyline looms in the distance underscored for me this true play of light, artificial light contrasted against scintillic light.

Without question, the Japanese have their finger on the pulse of the ghost. They render ghosts in genuinely creepy ways. Whether wet-haired girls sliding along floors or climbing out of televisions, or?in Bright Future?the friend who appears while Asano dreams. A ghost who walks over to stand beside his grieving father who, sensing a presence, looks over his shoulder back at the sleeping Asano. The ghost of his son then short circuits the machinery. I love the notion that an electrical spark can be the point of intersection where the ghost world and the physical world cross paths; where cause and affect kiss.

I also loved Asano's dream, where he is fighting against wind, draped in long sheets of paper or plastic. Am I the only one who sees that he is being configured as a jellyfish with its trailing tendrils?

The final scene where the gang of disaffected youth amble through contemporary Tokyo?alleged noncomformists who all wear the same Che Guevara t-shirt like a uniform, kicking boxes, killing time?they, too, visually replicate the freed jellyfish heading back to sea. Even when we do not know how to resolve the darknesses that encompass us, something within us lights the way.

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Trouble in 'Nottingham': Is Ridley Scott's Robin
Hood on the Rocks [Nottingham Deathwatch]

A note slipped over the Defamer transom this afternoon hints that all is not well in Nottingham, Ridley Scott's reimagining of the Robin Hood legend which was set to begin shooting with Russell Crowe and a really, really, really excited Sienna Miller sometime next month. But we're hearing now that the film — which twists Crowe's Sheriff of Nottingham as the hero against Robin Hood's ruthless thief — is postponed indefinitely. SAG strike fears, as Miller alluded to in June? Unavailable historical background on Maid Marian's merkin? Inquiries to Universal (which last year paid seven figures for the script) and Scott's pals at Imagine Entertainment weren't immediately returned, leaving us in the lurch for a long weekend to come. Alas, we'll always have Costner.

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Review: Jack Brooks Monster Slayer

Director: Jon KnautzWriter: John AinslieProducers: Neil Bregman, Trevor Matthews, Patrick[...]

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Comic-Con Report: Repo! The Genetic Opera is
Trippy, Opera-y [Comic-Con 2008]

The Repo! stars were out in force at the San Diego Comic Con this year with attendees including director Darren Bousman, writers Terrance Zdunich and Darren Smith, and stars Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, Alexa Vega, and Nivek Ogre. In a stunning turn of events, it took at least a ...

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