Ouija the Movie?

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Universal Pictures has announced a five year development deal with Hasbro to produce movies based on Hasbro properties such as Monopoly, Candy Land, Clue, Ouija, Battleship, Magic, the Gathering, and Stretch Armstrong.

There was already a subpar Clue movie back in 1985. And of course we all remember the wretched Dungeons & Dragons cartoon and the abysmal movie. I don’t hold out much hope for a Magic, The Gathering or any these other properties. Imagine a Ouija movie… *shiver*

Addendum: New York Times article on the subject.

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Ouija the Movie?

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Universal Pictures has announced a five year development deal with Hasbro to produce movies based on Hasbro properties such as Monopoly, Candy Land, Clue, Ouija, Battleship, Magic, the Gathering, and Stretch Armstrong.

There was already a subpar Clue movie back in 1985. And of course we all remember the wretched Dungeons & Dragons cartoon and the abysmal movie. I don’t hold out much hope for a Magic, The Gathering or any these other properties. Imagine a Ouija movie… *shiver*

Addendum: New York Times article on the subject.

STREAMING VIDEO GOES RETRO ON NBC UNIVERSAL

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While I applaud NBC Universal’s decision to offer several of their older shows for free online, I just wish more of the shows were any good.

A full list of streaming vintage series follows:

NBC.com
A-Team
Emergency
Night Gallery
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Miami Vice
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Buck Rogers

SCIFI.com
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Buck Rogers
Tek War
Night Gallery

ChillerTV.com
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Swamp Thing
Tremors
Crow
Night Gallery

SleuthChannel.com
Kojak
Miami Vice
Simon & Simon
A-Team
Night Gallery

Outside of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Kojak, and Night Gallery, these shows, most of which were awful upon first viewing, are better served collecting dust rather than wasting bandwidth. Course now with Tek War freely available, millions of Boston Legal fans can experience the magic of mid-90s William Shatner.

No date was given for when the shows will become available.

STREAMING VIDEO GOES RETRO ON NBC UNIVERSAL was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon

STREAMING VIDEO GOES RETRO ON NBC UNIVERSAL

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While I applaud NBC Universal’s decision to offer several of their older shows for free online, I just wish more of the shows were any good.

A full list of streaming vintage series follows:

NBC.com
A-Team
Emergency
Night Gallery
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Miami Vice
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Buck Rogers

SCIFI.com
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Buck Rogers
Tek War
Night Gallery

ChillerTV.com
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Swamp Thing
Tremors
Crow
Night Gallery

SleuthChannel.com
Kojak
Miami Vice
Simon & Simon
A-Team
Night Gallery

Outside of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Kojak, and Night Gallery, these shows, most of which were awful upon first viewing, are better served collecting dust rather than wasting bandwidth. Course now with Tek War freely available, millions of Boston Legal fans can experience the magic of mid-90s William Shatner.

No date was given for when the shows will become available.

This is a little creepy

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While doing some research on my grandfather, I ran across his MySpace page! The fact that Irving Klaw has been dead for some 41 years would seem to make this impossible.

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[Irving Klaw’s] death remains the stuff of family legend.

Labor Day weekend, 1966: A 55-year-old Irving Klaw awoke with pain on the right side of his abdomen. A family friend, a doctor, diagnosed him with appendicitis. Since the ailment was in its early stages, the physician told Irving not to panic, but suggested he pack a bag and check into the hospital. Stubborn to the last, Irving decided to go to work. Later that day, he was found dead from peritonitis. At least according to my mother.

My cousin Ira Kramer, son of Irving’s sister Paula Klaw, tells a different story. Irving, who had been under treatment for an ulcer, visited the same family friend, who told him to just take some antacids and not to worry. Later that day, he was discovered dead from peritonitis.

His son Arth has another theory: He believes Irving woke up with the pain, took some antacids, and went to work. Irving Klaw hated doctors.

(Reprinted from my article “The Notorious Irving Klaw”, The Austin Chronicle March 10, 2006)


If it all wasn’t strange enough, I ran across this:

On one level, this is all very flattering but on another it is just creepy.

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This is a little creepy

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While doing some research on my grandfather, I ran across his MySpace page! The fact that Irving Klaw has been dead for some 41 years would seem to make this impossible.

Quote:
[Irving Klaw’s] death remains the stuff of family legend.

Labor Day weekend, 1966: A 55-year-old Irving Klaw awoke with pain on the right side of his abdomen. A family friend, a doctor, diagnosed him with appendicitis. Since the ailment was in its early stages, the physician told Irving not to panic, but suggested he pack a bag and check into the hospital. Stubborn to the last, Irving decided to go to work. Later that day, he was found dead from peritonitis. At least according to my mother.

My cousin Ira Kramer, son of Irving’s sister Paula Klaw, tells a different story. Irving, who had been under treatment for an ulcer, visited the same family friend, who told him to just take some antacids and not to worry. Later that day, he was discovered dead from peritonitis.

His son Arth has another theory: He believes Irving woke up with the pain, took some antacids, and went to work. Irving Klaw hated doctors.

(Reprinted from my article "The Notorious Irving Klaw", The Austin Chronicle March 10, 2006)


If it all wasn’t strange enough, I ran across this:

On one level, this is all very flattering but on another it is just creepy.

New Weird contest…

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Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, editors extraordinare, have announced a contest to promote their new anthology, The New Weird.

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Tell us your “new, weird” story–something strange (but entertaining and either PG-rated or with the naughty bits blocked out) that happened to you or you witnessed in the last couple of years. Hopefully some of these will be bizarre but also uplifting, although that’s not a requirement. It’s more about…hey, this world we live in is an odder place than we might think. All of those stories in The New Weird from China Mieville, Clive Barker, K.J. Bishop, Steph Swainston, Jeffrey Ford, Jay Lake, Pual Di Filippo, Michael Moorcock, M. John Harrison, and others–they’re not strange; the world is strange!

And the prize is pretty damn cool…

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The three winners, chosen by Ann and me, will win ONE COPY OF EACH ANTHOLOGY WE EDIT BETWEEN NOW AND 2010, PERSONALIZED. Yes, that’s correct. You will get a copy of The New Weird, Steampunk, The Leonardo Variations (Clarion charity anthology), Fast Ships/Black Sails (pirates), Best American Fantasy 2, Best Horror 2009, Last Drink Bird Head, Mapping the Beast: The Best of Leviathan, and various other anthologies currently in the planning stages. Heck, we’ll even throw in the first couple issue of Weird Tales with Ann as fiction editor. We also reserve the right to give out honorable mentions, said HMs to receive a copy of the NW antho.

For official rules, visit Ecstatic Days.

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New Weird contest…

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Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, editors extraordinare, have announced a contest to promote their new anthology, The New Weird.

Quote:
Tell us your “new, weird” story–something strange (but entertaining and either PG-rated or with the naughty bits blocked out) that happened to you or you witnessed in the last couple of years. Hopefully some of these will be bizarre but also uplifting, although that’s not a requirement. It’s more about…hey, this world we live in is an odder place than we might think. All of those stories in The New Weird from China Mieville, Clive Barker, K.J. Bishop, Steph Swainston, Jeffrey Ford, Jay Lake, Pual Di Filippo, Michael Moorcock, M. John Harrison, and others–they’re not strange; the world is strange!

And the prize is pretty damn cool…

Quote:
The three winners, chosen by Ann and me, will win ONE COPY OF EACH ANTHOLOGY WE EDIT BETWEEN NOW AND 2010, PERSONALIZED. Yes, that’s correct. You will get a copy of The New Weird, Steampunk, The Leonardo Variations (Clarion charity anthology), Fast Ships/Black Sails (pirates), Best American Fantasy 2, Best Horror 2009, Last Drink Bird Head, Mapping the Beast: The Best of Leviathan, and various other anthologies currently in the planning stages. Heck, we’ll even throw in the first couple issue of Weird Tales with Ann as fiction editor. We also reserve the right to give out honorable mentions, said HMs to receive a copy of the NW antho.

For official rules, visit Ecstatic Days.