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Have you seen the latest Star Trek film? I haven't. Abrams sent me a message through the Web - what was it, Twittered me? No. YouTubed me? No, what has he done? E-mailed me. He e-mailed me saying he heard that I hadn't seen the movie and he'd set up a private screening, and I declined the private screening and told him I'd buy him dinner...
...teenage obsession, Alison Byrne Fields wrote to John Hughes to tell him how much she loved The Breakfast Club. It was 1985, Byrne Fields was 15, and she watched the movie so many times that she lost count. So she told Hughes how accurately his film portrayed high school, how it said exactly what she was feeling, and how much she liked Judd Nelson. (She thought he was hot.) Byrne Fields was having problems of her own - not big problems, though they seemed big at the time - and she told Hughes how much it helped to know that someone...
...seen a lot of action over his 45 years. The soldier has been a toy, a comic book, a cartoon, another toy and several videogames. But on Aug. 7, G.I. Joe gets his most challenging mission yet: anchoring his own live-action film. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra hopes it can emulate Transformers and turn nostalgia for the 1980s toys and cartoons into success at the box office. (See pictures of ninja warriors: from myth to movies...
...market had no analogue for boys. In 1963, Hasbro began development on a military-themed line of dolls that, like Barbie, could be accessorized with different outfits and equipment. The original strategy called for a different figure for each branch of the military, but seizing on a 1945 film called The Story of G.I. Joe, the toys were eventually genericized. (The term itself comes from World War II, where it was used as a shorthand symbol for the typical serviceman, or "Government-Issue Joe.") (See pictures of Barbie's 50th birthday...
...Real American Hero. (Cobra operatives got action figures, too.) G.I. Joe was also made into video games for early Atari and Commodore game platforms and as a comic-book series published by Marvel from 1982 to 1994. This won't even be G.I. Joe's first film - the animated flick G.I. Joe: The Movie went straight to video...