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Spike Jonze Melds F/X and Muppetry for Wild Things

Building a lifelike monster is hard enough. But director Spike Jonze needed 14 of them, each with its own unique look and personality, for his film version of Maurice Sendak's beloved Where the Wild Things Are. "When I read the book as a kid, I wanted ...

From ADAM ROGERS, Wired,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Spike Jonze,  Maurice Sendak,  Jim Henson,  David Fincher

Prep football: Ex-Lely coach Pricer plans to be at tonight's game after Thursday resignation

NAPLES Weather permitting, former Lely coach Steve Pricer plans on being in the stands when the Trojans hosted Gulf Coast tonight at 7:30. It will be the first time in more than 32 years that Pricer has not been on the sidelines. "The weather is ...

From ADAM FISHER, ROGER LALONDE, Naples Daily News,  11 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Dave Miller

Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic

Wired: What's the significance of the superhero? What's interesting about the iconography or the archetypes? Alan Moore: I don't actually think that anything is, at the moment. I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as ...

From ADAM ROGERS, Wired,  27 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Alan Moore,  WIRED Magazine

Artist Dave Gibbons' Gut Feelings on the 'Watchmen' Movie

Wired: Before we start, I've been a fan for a long time—of Watchmen, but I loved The Originals and your work on Green Lantern. Dave Gibbons: Oh, thanks. I'm even more happy to talk to you in that case. Wired: So, in reading Watching the Watchmen I was ...

From ADAM ROGERS, Wired,  27 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Dave Gibbons,  Alan Moore,  WIRED Magazine,  Zack Snyder

Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie

Some of the most important scenes in the seminal comic book Watchmen take place in the secret basement headquarters of a washed-up ex-superhero called Nite Owl. It's a damp, vaulted space packed with avian-themed costumes and machine tools, a boys'-own- ...

From ADAM ROGERS, Wired,  27 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Zack Snyder,  Alan Moore,  Dave Gibbons,  Frank Miller

Marriage, Galactica Style

BSG (now CSI) writer Bradley Thompson went and got hitched the other night, and he did so in grand style. The officiator was none other than Admiral Adama himself, Edward James Olmos, in a ceremony that concluded with a rousing "SO SAY WE ALL!" It was ...

From ADAM ROGERS, Wired,  9 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Edward James Olmos

Q&A: John Hodgman on Perfecting the Illusion of Expertise

John Hodgman is an expert. At everything. (OK, maybe not sports.) But where he really excels is in creating the illusion of expertise — and not letting pesky facts intrude on that authority. From his first book, a compendium of faux trivia aptly titled ...

From ADAM ROGERS, Wired,  13 Oct 2008
Related Topics: John Hodgman,  WIRED Magazine

This NASA Astronaut Was 'Too Busy to Be Scared'

In NASA lingo, events that go as expected are "nominal." And in space, you really want things to be nominal. But in April, astronaut Peggy Whitson had a ride home from the International Space Station that was anything but. Her Soyuz descent module ...

From ADAM ROGERS, Wired,  4 Aug 2008
Related Topics: WIRED Magazine,  NASA,  Peggy Whitson

How the Ideas and Events of 1993 Created the World We Live in Today

It probably wasn't weirder than any other year, statistically speaking. But look closely at 1993 and you see the seeds of the Future... which is now the Present (if you get what we mean). Buried in the news sections of scientific journals and the ...

From ADAM ROGERS, Wired,  30 May 2008

Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore Talks Football, Religion, and What He's Up to Next

When Ron Moore was a young writer in the 1990s cranking out the familiar rhythms of Star Trek shows—from Next Generation to Deep Space Nine and Voyager — he chafed at the strictures of TV sci-fi. (The pseudoscience was "awful to write and soul-sapping," ...

From ADAM ROGERS, Wired,  27 May 2008
Related Topics: Knight Rider

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