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Stardust Film Casting
ETA: March 7 – Looks official to me. Reuters/THR has posted information on the Stardust casting – along with Claire Daines as Yvaine and Charlie Cox as Tristran, Sienna Miller has been cast as Victoria, Michelle Pfeiffer as Madame Semele, and Robert De Niro as Captain Alberic. And if I’ve muffed the names, blame it […]
Temple University Reading: With many thanks to Dan for the write-up!Neil appeared at Temple University at the invitation of Samuel R. “Chip” Delany’s graduate writing course. Initially, a small hall was booked for the event and reservations were required. After fielding an unexpected number of calls asking about the event, it was moved to Mitten […]
Clippings: Laika has a page posted for the animated feature version of Coraline, with what may be a production image, a description of the plot, news about the feature, and a brief interview with Henry Selick. Note: The site does require a Flash Player to see the images, and loads very slowly on a dial-up […]
Technical Difficulties…please stand by
The last few entries that should have gone into the Journal…didn’t (explanation below). While they are getting the system sorted out, here are the (temporarily) missing posts.–lap.s. How he managed to not note that Mirrormask has been nominated for the inaugural Golden Groundhog awards for Best Underground Movie of 2005 should of course be attributed […]
92nd St. Y
Well, it was worth videorecording, but an audio would do nicely. Either would be better than relying on my notes and my memory. Unfortunately we only have those to rely on at this point so do not take all of what is here as absolutely accurate. But regardless, Neil’s interview at the 92nd St. Y, […]
Clippings: On a fellow traveller note, there are many images of Dave McKean’s work in Lestat, as well as a reprinted page of an interview with him about the musical’s visual effects, here, unless someone has requested that they should be taken down. From Robert J. Wiersema year end wrap up in the December 31st […]
Anansi Boys “Best of the Year” Listings: Amazon.com: Top 10 Editors Picks for Science Fiction and Fantasy Borders: Best of 2005 – Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Novels of 2005 (November 7, 2005) Washington Post Book World: Best of 2005 (December 4, 2005) Christian Science Monitor: Best Fiction 2005 (November 29, 2005) […]
Feature – The Daily Telegraph From the December 12th Daily Telegraph: Tori Amos writes about Gaiman in her songs, and when this cool children’s author comes to London, Lenny Henry interviews him on stage. Angelina Jolie is, right now, learning lines in Old English for the Gaiman-scripted film of Beowulf. Not bad for a freelance […]
The ‘Good Omens’ New Years Resolutions – 2006 Happy holidays! From the HarperCollins website – Crowley and Aziraphale’s resolutions for the new year, as told to Neil and Terry Pratchett. (With many thanks to baralier for posting this.) Interview – NPR From the December 5th Talk of the Nation: (NOTE: This is a heavily edited […]