From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #174 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, July 24 2007 Volume 07 : Number 174 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory on MySpace [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory on MySpace [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Gil Ray: Road-tested, auteur-approved! [Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Gil Ray: Road-tested, auteur-approved! >muppetlabs.com wrote: > Take a bow, Mr. Ray. I did and my toupee fell off!!! Doh! Thanks for telling this, Andy. Very cool indeed! Gil > Typing this from Portland, Oregon, on the way home > from my first live > human film shoot (as opposed to the voice work I did > on two other movies). > What, you may well ask, should please the ear of my > temperamental > director? No, not Van Morrison's ASTRAL WEEKS, my > choice for Second-Best > Album Ever ("just not my mood"). No, not the > Stooges' reunion album THE > WEIRDNESS, my choice for one of this year's Top Ten > Albums ("Sounds too > much like all the other stuff like it...don't like > the > anti-Christianity..."). > > Rather, our man Gil's I AM ATOMIC MAN! ("Yeah, that > was neat.") > > Take a bow, Mr. Ray. > > By the way, did anyone ever put Gil's making-of > posts up in one place for > everyone to enjoy? > > At least we managed to distract her from that System > of a Down CD, > > Andy > > > Groening reveals roots of Marge's hair > > 1 hour, 42 minutes ago > > NEW YORK - Marge Simpson's gravity-defying blue > beehive is a hybrid > creation, Matt Groening has revealed. > ADVERTISEMENT > > The "Simpsons" matriarch's impressive hair was > inspired by "The Bride of > Frankenstein" and by his own mother's hairdo from > the 1960s, the series' > creator told The New York Times Magazine in an > interview published Sunday. > > Marge, Homer and the rest of the Springfield gang > will make the leap from > TV to the big screen when "The Simpsons Movie" opens > Friday. > > In the film, the Oval Office is occupied by > President Arnold Schwarzenegger. > > "We needed a president that would make people > laugh," Groening told the > magazine. "And Schwarzenegger was the obvious > choice." > > In 18 years on Fox, "The Simpsons" has taken several > swipes at Rupert > Murdoch, the network's owner. Groening said Murdoch > has been gracious > every time the two men have met. > > "He played himself on the show, and we wrote the > line, 'I'm Rupert > Murdoch, the billionaire tyrant, and this is my > skybox,' as his entrance > line," Groening said. "He performed it with great > zeal." > > --from > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_en_mo/people_groening ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #174 *******************************