
Pop Culture Roundup 45
Happy New Year, Fanpeeps. Remember when His Airness came back in ’95 and rocked #45 because they had already retired his number 23? This one goes out to the culture of comebacks. Presenting Pop Culture Roundup 45. Paramount just released eleven high resolution images from Star Trek Into Darkness. Set your phasers to fun and scope them out […]
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Pop Culture Roundup 39
Roundup, Pop Culture Roundup. It’s 39, Double-Ohs! We attended opening night of Skyfall, last Friday, and enjoyed it immensely. The opening was a huge success, raking in $87.8 million in North America, the 007 franchise’s best opening. It’s hard to imagine the production was nearly canceled, along with the series, due to MGM’s financial troubles. […]
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Pop Culture Roundup 37
Do you realize the English bard William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays? The more you know. It’s the 37th edition of the Pop Culture Roundup, Fam. You have been living under a rock or been dealing with more urgent life matters, such as surviving a hurricane, if you haven’t heard Disney acquired Lucasfilm for $4 billion. The announcement was made […]
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Ralph McQuarrie 1929-2012
A very belated post. Another pop culture legend and artist has passed. Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer and illustrator who designed the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica television series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon (for which he won an Academy Award) died at the age of 82 from complications of Parkinson’s disease at his Berkeley, […]
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