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...Ultraman film, Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend, The Movie, is part of a long evolution in the Ultra series, which first began with a television show that aired in the 1960s. For decades, the episodes showed extraterrestrial beings fighting to protect Earth from alien and monster invaders with live-action scenes and classic Japanese special effects. (Read about the man behind the Ultraman special effects...
...campaign to bring Paranormal Activity to the public is already a movie-industry legend. Shot three years ago by Peli, an Israeli-born video maker, for $11,000 in a week in his house, the picture played a few fright festivals in 2007. While DreamWorks considered buying the rights to do a remake with stars, Steven Spielberg took a copy of PA home to watch it; when he finished his screening, he found his bathroom door inexplicably locked. (He thought the DVD was haunted.) Two weeks ago, Paramount started playing Peli's film at midnight in 16 college towns. Many...
...side, activist Leila Gregory, 51, took the podium and gushed about all the local celebrities in attendance. There was John Conyers Jr., the veteran Congressman ("You're an American idol!"), and Greg Mathis, the popular TV judge ("I just love him!"). When Gregory turned to Dave Bing - the NBA legend, steel magnate and mayor of Detroit - her demeanor changed. All she could manage was a curt "Hello, Mr. Mayor" before moving on. Not that it mattered much to Bing. A minute later, the mayor, who seems to endure ceremony only because it comes with the title, departed the premises...
...anyone watch? This automatically puts Fontaine's film at a disadvantage, and the truly enigmatic nature of her subject only compounds it. "You want, but you don't know what," Emilienne tells Coco, and the movie keeps us at that same remove. It may be too respectful of the legend it seeks to illuminate...
...Cutler said. “He has always been an enormously inventive and perceptive teacher,” said Diana L. Eck, professor of Comparative Religion and Studies, a speaker at the celebration. “But he has never abandoned...his spirit of festivity.” Legend has it that the Hollis Professor of Divinity holds the privileged right to graze his cows—a perk that first came to Cox’s attention when he assumed the post in 2002, and later became the inspiration for yesterday’s ceremony. “Harvey...