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Free Book: The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories by John Kessel

2008-04-15 17:12:45 by John in SF Signal
 
...Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories , under a Creative Commons License From Small Beer Press Today, April 15, 2008, is tax day in the USA and we all need cheering up. We're celebrating at Small Beer Press by publishing John Kessel's first collection of short stories in ten years, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and...
 
Tags: stories, baum plan, john kessel, financial independence, short stories, beer press, license, creative commons license, short story collection
 
 
 
 
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Return To Oz (1985)

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2008-11-11 04:47:16 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...Baum s best-selling fantasy series. The Baum estate had sold the film rights to Samuel Goldwyn for $60,000, and Disney just missed out being able to make an animated version of what became The Wizard of Oz . Disney never lost enthusiasm for Oz . When eleven of Baums books became available in 1957, Disney bought them. At one point, he intended...
 
Tags: return, film rights, film, dorothy, dorothy gale, film editor, dorothy regains consciousness, difficult film, dorothy escapes
 
 
 
 
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Emitai

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2008-04-23 22:39:00 by Gareth in gareth's movie diary
...Baum teases out some of the historical issues in Emitai in his essay in the book Black and White in Color: African History on Screen (2), which to my mind underlines the need to cast Emitai in a wider context: in Baum's account, for instance , the film's depiction of local religious practice reinforces the kinds of visual clichés that we...
 
Tags: historical film, film, film compresses time, film depicts, western film industry, western film production, film quarterly, emitai, sembne
 
 
 
 
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Santa's Life Story: The CGI Movie

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2008-11-07 16:03:28 by HASH0x8b6be40 in I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
...Baum's The Life and Aventures of Santa Claus . From Variety : Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has joined forces with Singapore-based Toonz Entertainment and Gang of 7 Animation to mount "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus," a CGI-animated feature based on the book by L. Frank Baum. The film is expected to be ready for holiday...
 
Tags: santa, santa mythology, santa claus, story, cgi santa movie, hyde park entertainment, toonz entertainment, santa magical, life
 
 
 
 
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Stardust (Matthew Vaughn, 2007)

2007-10-21 00:26:00 by Noel Vera in Critic After Dark
 
...Baum's The Wizard of Oz and Charles Dodgson's Alice books; you also feel the disdain for easy emotional payoffs. The protagonist's ostensible quest--to find the eponymous mask and save a queen in enchanted sleep--is the merest slip of an excuse to present a monstrous, Borgesian menagerie of dream creatures, one more bizarre than the next,...
 
Tags: potter movie, movie, harry potter movie, stand gaiman, gaiman, neil gaiman, stardust, stardust gaiman takes, fantasy
 
 
 
 
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Local Filmmaker Dishes on Hard Knocks

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2007-03-27 11:56:00 by johanna in the lone revue
...Baum. The renovation of the building included two massive wooden doors that one morning attracted a crowd of spectators. It wasn't the light coloring of the doors that had pulled people from the East Liberty branch of the Carnegie Library, though. It was the doorknob, a steering wheel-size sculpture of a bronze man climbing the doors in a...
 
Tags: gay community, community, black community weighs, liberty, east liberty branch, black, white-on-black, black-on-black violence, east
 
 
 
 
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You Kill Me (2007)

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2007-12-13 02:41:00 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...Baum, who knew Ben Kingsley. The actor loved the script, and approached John Dahl to direct Dahl had wanted to make a hitman movie for years, and liked black comedy. His concern was the budget. Markus was from Buffalo, McFeely from San Francisco, and those were the cities the writers had selected as locations for their script. Initially...
 
Tags: comedy, black comedy aficionados, frank, frank falenczyk, frank takes care, bill pullman acquits, pullman, film, tribeca film festival
 
 
 
 
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MTV Becomes 'The American Mall'rat

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2007-12-25 00:00:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...Baum, Blythe Auffarth ( The Girl Next Door ), Yassmin Alers ( Across the Universe ), Bresha Webb ( Lincoln Heights ), and Al Sapienza ( Brotherhood ). The film is being directed by Shawn Ku , the man behind the musical Sundance short Pretty Dead Girl . Are you ready for some musical mall madness? Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
 
Tags: musical allllll, musical, mall, american mall, school musical, original musical, school, musical mall madness, music store
 
 
 
 
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Golden Globes: Short, Not So Sweet Nor Shiny

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2008-01-14 16:01:29 by Fred Schruers in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
...Baum-Lappe and Czaderska-Hayek, Kahana, Kanto and Kingma, Malouki, Nun-Katz and Von Arx, that they're not household names in America; but Waxman's contention is that they're generally not even household names in their own national press circles That said, Hollywood woke up feeling like something curiously fun and valuable had been blown--as...
 
Tags: globes, globes downgrade, writers strike, writers, co-anchors billy bush, household names, oscars, typical globes glamor, un-oscars
 
 
 
 
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Raise Your Hand if You're a NYT SF/F Book Reviewer Who Hates Young Adult Fiction!

2008-02-03 00:19:07 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...Baum who?) and - finally - genuine grown-up readers. But where's the artistic satisfaction? Where's the dignity? How can anyone take this guy seriously? This is like a repeat of Clute Brought to you via the letter "L" (as in "Loser") and also via the ever-diligent Antick Musings , who points at Itzkoff and says "Look at the funny monkey!"...