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Castroneves takes the checkered flag on "Dancing With The Stars"

Two time Indy 500 champion Helio Castroneves took home the "coveted" mirror ball trophy in the finals of this season's "Dancing With The Stars"

Castroneves and partner Julianne Hough bested Spice Girl Mel B and partner Maksum Chmerkovskiy after Monday nights' final.

Marie Osmond and partner Jonathan Roberts were eliminated early on Tuesday's final results show, taking third place.

Castroneves and Mel B were neck and neck in the finals on Monday, with the Brazilian race car driver sitting just one point behind the Spice Girl after the judges were through with their scoring.

Many fans (and some insiders) think Chmerkovskiy may have cost Mel B - the frontrunner for most of the season after the shocking elimination of Sabrina Bryan a few weeks back -  the title after the syndicated entertainment news show Extra aired a controversal interview on Monday with the pro dancer where he trashed Marie Osmond as not deserving to be in the finals, and basically coming across like a major jerk. While some fans jumped to Maks' defense, most people posting comments on Extra's site following the interview felt that Maks was out of line for criticizing Osmond, who he said was capturing the sympathy vote after a season which found the 48 year old singer fainting during a live show, losing her father suddenly and dealing with the burdens of having her 16 year old son enter rehab. Fans were particularly angry that Chmerkovskiy compared the fact that Mel B's year old child had chicken pox during the show's run to the problems which beset both Osmond and fellow competitor Jane Seymour, who also lost her mother during the run of the show.

The win makes two in a row for Hough, the 19 year old professional dancer teamed with Castroneves - Hough took Olympic gold medalist Apolo Anton Ohno to the trophy last season.

Congrats to Helio and Julianne!

Subject:CINEMA #82 - "The First Cut Is The Deepest"

This week, we take a look at the first roles of a number of today's biggest stars, including Nicole Kidman, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Jackie Chan, Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwartznegger, and more, plus a few of our rising stars as well...

THE SHOW: a ton of first roles, plus coverage of the two entertainment strikes, this years' Peoples Choice Nominations, and all our regular features - The Callback, the Bonehead of The Week, and E-mail.

AND

THE WINNER OF THE MASTERS OF THE MACABRE TRIVIA CHALLENGE IS ANNOUNCED!

THIS WEEK'S NOTES:

On this Veteran's Day, we take a look at some show biz vets and some relative newcomers to the movie world, and take a look at the first role they had, proving that playing a waiter can someday make you a superstar...

Hope everyone likes the changes occuring on the site - I addressed these last Thursday on the site, and there will be more over the next week. If you have any ideas, please drop me a line at subjectcinema@popcornnroses.com!

NEXT WEEK: Mini-Glorious-Movies: The MGM Animation Stars!

See you then!

Subject:CINEMA #69A - "You've Got Batmen In Your Belfry!" - Part Two

I apologize for not having the trailers up on Tuesday as scheduled. They will be up on Thursday sometime, and the Hot Site and Online Film Festival entries on Friday and Saturday respectively...

Continuing our look into Batman in the media...

THE SHOW:

This second installment covers all the stuff we had NO room for on the Sunday show, including "Return To The Batcave", along with the direct to video movies, Batman:THE MUSICAL (!), other music inspired by the Batman TV series, Batman fan film sites, video games, and more. Plus, coverage of the last Attack Of the B-Movies show, our review of Death At A Funeral, a look at Herschel Gordon Lewis' first feature, Living Venus, and all our regular stuff - E-Mail, Bonehead Of The Week, The Callback...and the FINAL INSTALLMENT of the Subject:CINEMA Hero Heat Trivia Challenge!

THIS WEEKS NOTES:

I apologize for this being up so late...it's been a crazy week at work, and trying to get some stuff reviewed for this weekend, and all kinds of crazy prep for this weekend's blockbuster Fall Preview Show...

In any case, there will be more notes over the weekend this weekend, so please check back!

A hearty FAREWELL to our friend, Filmspotting's Sam Van Halligren, who is leaving that podcast as co-host after two years...we'll miss you, Sam! (...and you're STILL Wrong about Lords of Dogtown...heh heh heh...)

This weekend, join us for Subject:CINEMA's Blockbuster Fall Movie Preview! 

Subject:CINEMA #69 - "You've Got Batmen In Your Belfry!" (Part One)

This week, Kim and TC tackle all aspects of The Dark Knight!  And there's so much...we couldn't fit it all in!

This week's show:

All aspects of the Batman phenomenon, from the early serials to the upcoming feature film The Dark Knight, and everything in-between. Includes The Batman/Superman Hour, Batman (1966 series), Superfriends, The New Adventures of Batman, Batman:The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, feature films Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Batman Begins (2005) and almost a dozen more shows and movies!

THIS WEEK'S NOTES:

There is a HELLA LOT of Batman stuff out there. In fact, there was so much, we couldn't fit it all into one show....SO Wednesday, watch for part two of the show, with more Batman stuff, plus our e-mails, memories of Batman from our listeners, and the final installment of our huge S:C Trivia Challenge, plus more more MORE! Same Popcorn Time, Same Roses Channel, Different Bat Day!

What we DID fit into this show was a look at the character, and EVERY SINGLE TV AND MOVIE PROJECT from the 1943 serial to the upcoming 2008 feature film The Dark Knight, except one, which will be coming up on the Wednesday show.

And as the week goes on, you'll see plenty of Batman stuff popping up...

On Tuesday, our Trailer Trove will feature the opening credits and trailers from ALL the various Batman productions...

On Wednesday, Part two of "You've Got Batmen In Your Belfry!"

On Thursday, the debut of our new Popcorn N Roses HOT SITE OF THE WEEK featuring a Batman-oriented site

And on Friday, our first weekly PNR Online Film Festival featuring a great Batman-oriented trailer.

NEXT WEEK:

We get an extra day in the weekend, but S:C will be on time next Sunday with a complete rundown of all the fall movies hitting your local theater.

Our Fall Movie Preview....Be There. Aloha!

Subject:CINEMA #68 - "Prince of Thieves"

This week, Kim and TC delve into the world of Robin Hood, and the many many MANY adaptations of the legendary character to the screen, big and small.

THE SHOW:

The backhistory of Robin Hood; A TON of adapations, with closer inspections of The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938), Robin Of Sherwood (1984), Robin Hood (TV 1991); Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves (1991); Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993), The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1997); and Robin Hood (2006), plus brief discussions of Dangermouse and Star Trek adaptations, as well as over 20 other TV and Movie versions of the character. Plus, Email, Callback, Bonehead, another Film Crew review, the Debut of our Bad Movie Review, and coverage of this week's Attack Of The B Movies!

THIS WEEKS' NOTES:

As always, complete show notes will be forthcoming in the next couple of days!

NEXT WEEK: Hero Heat concludes with "You've Got Batmen In Your Belfry"!

Subject:CINEMA #67 - "X-Citement X-Traordinare!"

This week, as we continue with Hero Heat, Kim and TC turn the spotlight on the X-Men - their background, their TV and Movie ventures, and more. Plus, more X-Games Coverage!

The Show:

A Look at the X-Men history; Pryde Of The X-Men; X-Men (1992); Generation-X (1996), X-Men (feature film- 2000); X-Men:Evolution (2000); X2: X-Men United (2003); X-Men:The Last Stand (2006); To X or Not To X; more coverage of the X Games

THIS WEEK'S NOTES:

Extensive notes coming tonight!

Subject:CINEMA #65 - "Along Came A...Aw, You KNOW The Rest!"

This week's show kicks off HERO HEAT month with a bang, as Kim and TC discuss all things Spider-Man, from the comic beginnings, to ALL the different TV incarnations (yes, even the Japanese one!), and the big screen blockbusters.

This Week's Show Lineup:

A bit of Spidey History

The TV Series, from the original Spider-man cartoon (1967) to Spider-man:The NEW Animated Series (2003) and everything in-between

The feature films - Spider-man, Spider-man 2, and Spider-man 3

This week's Callback with E-Mail

A brand new Trivia Challenge, which will be running the duration of Hero Heat

X-Games coverage

Attack of The B-Movies

Marvel Vs DC on You Tube

THIS WEEK'S NOTES:

Boy oh boy has there been a TON of Spider-man projects on TV...nine in total so far (and a tenth is in the works)

In chronological order, they are (all links are to Wikipedia's entries on the topics, which is where we got most of our information):

Spider-man, animated, 1967

Spidey Super Stories, live action segment of The Electric Company, 1974

The Amazing Spider-Man, live action, 1978

Supaidamon, live action Japanese adaptation, 1978

Spider-Man, animated, 1981

Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, animated, 1981

Spider-Man:The Animated Series, animated (duh!), 1994

Spider-man Unlimited, animated, 1999

Spiderman: The NEW Animated Series, animated (duh again!), 2003

Then of course, there are the three movies:

Spider-Man (2002)

Spider-man 2 (2004)

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

It's highly possible that only Superman and Batman have been involved in more projects on TV and in the movies; we'll find that out as we go through the weeks and begin research on the Batman show scheduled as the final installment of this month's HERO HEAT shows.

This Tuesday, on our Trailer Trove segment, we will feature the opening credits for ALL of the above TV series, so don't miss it!

IN OTHER AREAS...

Marvel Vs DC can be found here; they are worth checking out, as most are HILARIOUS, and Mike does a GREAT job with the imitations!

Get well, Jake Brown...you scared the living HELL out of me (and millions of other X Games viewers) on Thursday night

LATE BREAKING NEWS!!!

CONGRATS TO SHAUN WHITE on winning his first ever X Games Summer Gold medal in Mens Skateboard Vert this afternoon! It was on his third and last run, but he put it together and STOMPED the HELL out of PLG, making the Flying Tomato the first ever Olympic Gold Medalist to win an X-Games Gold Medal!!!

NEXT WEEK....

Hero Heat continues with "Go Ahead...Make My Day!", our salute to Dirty Harry Callahan! See you there!!!

DWTS- APOLO MAKES THE FINALS!

Apolo Anton Ohno and partner Julianne Hough moved one step closer to winning the title on this season's Dancing With The Stars last night, as Ian Ziering got the boot.

PNR and Subject:CINEMA fans know that Kim and I have been pushing for Apolo to win all season, and now we are REALLY gonna need our fans help to make this happen, because the level of competition in the finals is going to be absolutely stunning - the other two finalists are Laila Ali and Joey Fatone.

Remember, you can vote multiple times (I think it's 5 times per phone line in the finals) plus the same number of times per email online on the ABC.com website. Apolo's vote line is 1-800-868-3411, and is open from 8 pm until 1/2 hour after the show is over in each time zone.

PLEASE HELP US HELP APOLO GRAB THE MIRROR BALL - VOTE MONDAY! (and more reminders will follow i'm sure....heh heh heh...)

Subject:CINEMA #51 - You Think We Won't Cover Looney Tunes? Warner Bet?

Sorry this is a little late getting up, I overslept and was actually editing the show until right around noon, then it had to be saved and uploaded...

In the first of two parts, Kim and TC look at the Warner Animation studios, and the classic library of characters therein...

THE SHOW (times may be off slightly due to Podshow insertions):

Segment 1 (1:30) - A brief history of the Warner Animation Studio and it's major players

Segment 2 (25:34) - The Classic Characters, part one

Segment 3 (44:30) - The Classic Characters, part two

Segment 4 (1:03:30) - Hardsell, E-mail

Segment 5 - (1:19:35) - The Classic Characters, part three

THIS WEEKS NOTES:

This show focuses mostly on the CHARACTERS of the Warner studios; in part two, available this coming Wednesday, we'll count down our top 30 Warner shorts of all time!

This show turned out to be so HUGE, and so FUN, that we had to split it into two parts. If we didn't, you'd have been listening for around 4 hours straight. As it was, we cut EVERYTHING out of the hardsell this week except one brief Marquee Mix note and the e-mail. No trivia, no Bonehead this week, they'll return (or at least the Bonehead will) next Saturday!

Watch the site tomorrow for my review of Spiderman 3!

Th-th-th-that's all, folks!

Subject:CINEMA #48 - Wrestling With Acting Skills - Pro Wrestling In The Movies!

This week we're covering the world of professional wrestling and how it has had an impact on the big screen. The show ran a little longer than we anticipated - even editing it down, it still comes in at a whopping 1:45! But if you're a wrestling fan, like us, you will love it, and we hope even those S:C Fans who aren't into wrestling will appreciate our look at wrestling in popular culture!

THE SHOW (times may be off slightly due to Podshow insertions):

Segment 1 (1:44)- Pro wrestling in general; how we got into wrestling; why wrestlers sometimes have an easier transition into acting than stars of other sports

Segment 2 (19:38) - Wrestlers who have been actors on film or TV - Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, Kevin Nash, Roddy Piper, Jesse Ventura; brief mention of Rollerjam

Segment 3 (35:35) - Wrestling and Kids TV; Shannon "SnowPea" Moore; More acting wrestlers - The Rock, Sean Waltman, Jerry Lynn, Christopher Daniels, Terry Funk, Shawn Michaels, Joanie "Chyna" Laurer; Movies about wrestling - No Holds Barred, Over The Top (well, not really), Ready To Rumble, Beyond The Mat; The career of El Santo; more recent efforts from John Cena and Kane; George "The Animal" Steele

Segment 4 (55:40) - Marquee Mix revamp; Swag Shop; Podlinez; Bloglet; Yahoo Groups; Dancing With The Stars; Sanjaya; E-Mail; Trivia Challenge; Bonehead Of The Week (listen up, TNA!)

Segment 5 (1:18:16) - THE LIST - those wrestlers in today's shows that we think could have a shot at film stardom in the not-too-distant future, if they play their cards right...

THIS WEEKS NOTES:

Obviously there are a LOT of wrestlers who have acted that we didn't get a chance to mention on the show, and we certainly mean them no slight....

Also, thanks to all the wrestling fans who might have dropped by this week because of the subject matter; we hope you stick around a long time!

The length of the show this week was incredible, and shows how much we like wrestling as a form of entertainment, and that it often provokes debate between the two of us. It may be a while to commit to, but listen in segments and you'll get through the whole thing!

NEXT WEEK:

Wednesday - Art House Confidential

Saturday - Summer Blockbuster Preview

DWTS - YEAAAAAHHHH! A GOLD MEDAL Performance from Apolo and Julianne!!!

OK,ok, it's NOT a movie, but....

Can you say PERFECT 30, ladies and Gentlemen?

YEAAAAAAAHHHHH!

On last night's installment of Dancing With The Stars, PNR's personal favorite, 2-time Olympic speedskating Gold medalist Apolo Anton Ohno and his partner Julianne Hough danced the Samba and came away with the first perfect 30 score of the SEASON!

PNR has been backing Ohno all season, and will continue to do so right up until the very end.

In case you missed it...here's the whole segment from YouTube...and it's WORTH EVERY SECOND!!

Don't forget to vote for Apolo every week at ABC.Com (you can still vote online for last night's performance), and every Monday at 1-800-868-3411!

Getting past this week's results show should be smooth sailing....

CONGRATS TO APOLO AND JULIANNE! WOW, WHAT A PERFORMANCE!!!!!

Subject:CINEMA #44 - SuperSleuths Of The Small Screen

Sorry for the day's delay on this week's show, but something came up...

Mystery March continues with a look at the detectives and cops of the small screen (yes, we know that show is called Subject:CINEMA, but TV plays an important part in mysteries...we'll be back to cinema stuff next week, don't worry...)

THE SHOW (times may be off due to Podshow inserts):

Segment 1 (1:30) - The NBC Mystery Movie - Columbo, McMillan And Wife, McCloud, McCoy, Hec Ramsey, McCoy, Quincy M.E., Banacek, Cool Millions, The Snoop Sisters; Hetty Wainthrop Investigates; Mrs. Bradley Mysteries; Mystery!; Charters And Caldicott

Segment 2 (18:18) - The Whodunit shows - Murder She Wrote; Campion; off on a Doctor Who tangent; Ellery Queen and the breaking of the fourth wall; Perry Mason and his amazing record; The New Perry Mason and how it bombed; Whodunit?; Cluedo; Murder In Small Town X

Segment 3 (40:01) - Quirky detectives and cops - The Dead Zone; Medium; Psych; Monk; Longstreet; Matt Houston and Kim's definition of a "quirky opening" (hoo boy); Nero Wolfe; Parodies - Police Squad; Sledge Hammer; Murder By Death; Murder Can Hurt You

Segment 4 (58:00) - The usual stuff - Bum Rush The Charts update, Marquee Mix, more on our other shows, E-Mail, Trivia Challenge winner and new question; Bonehead of the Week; and, oh yeah, it's all about Apolo Anton Ohno on Dancing With The Stars this season...don't forget to vote!

Segment 5 (1:16:39) - Cop Shows - CSI:Crime Scene Investigation; CSI:Miami; CSI:New York; Dexter; Law & Order; Law & Order:Criminal Intent; Law & Order:Special Victims Unit; Law & Order:Trial By Jury; a goofy story about one of TC's favorite young actors, Luther Creek; the "ripped from the headlines" aspect of Law & Order; Hawaii Five-0; Dragnet (1967 version); the ill-fated Dragnet revivals and movie; Adam-12; and oh, yeah, Tuesday is Happy Feet day...

THIS WEEK'S NOTES:

The ABC Mystery Movie, mentioned in the first segment, was made up of, in addition to new Columbo movies with Peter Falk, new Kojak movies with Telly Savalas, and two new elements, Gideon Oliver with Lou Gossett, and B.L. Striker starring Burt Reynolds.

For information on the UK series, Cluedo, based on the board game Clue, check out this IMDB entry - if this is out in the US on DVD, and someone knows where we can get it, please LET US KNOW!

For more information on the life and tragic death of the winner of Fox TV's Murder In Small Town X, Angel Juarbe Jr, click here and here; because of the show, we both felt like we sort-of knew him (in that TV sort of way) and thus had a personal stake in the disasters of 9/11. Gracias, Amigo...you and your brethren will NEVER be forgotten....

Also, I'm A FIRST CLASS IDIOT... I guess we should have given ME the "Bonehead Of The Week" award...I have been giving the new toll-free hotline WRONG on my readings of it now and the past several shows...it's 1-888-214-9311, NOT 243 as i've been saying, I don't know how that bonehead mistake got by me for three friggin' weeks....sorry....

CLIP OF THE WEEK!

We managed to find that clip of Vincent Price explaining cricket on You Tube again, so here it is. It's actually from Charters and Caldicott, and NOT Mystery!, as Kim had thought...ENJOY!

NEXT WEEK: "Good EEEEEEvening! The Films of Alfred Hitchcock...be there....

Subject:CINEMA #43 - There Is Nothing Like THE Dame...Agatha Christie In The Movies (and tv...)

Hoo boy, was this one fun! We're both HUGE Agatha Christie fans, and this was a show we've been looking forward to for a while. We go indepth about the TV and Movie adaptations of Dame Christie's work.

THE SHOW (times may be slightly off due to Podshow insertions):

Segment 1 (1:30) - An overview of Dame Agatha Christie's work; Partners In Crime
Segment 2 (19:00) - The fastidious Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot
Segment 3 (39:00) - A trip to Saint Mary Meade with Miss Jane Marple
Segment 4 (1:00:18) - upcoming mystery show; Marquee Mix changes that didn't happen due to the CRB Decision; Save Internet Radio; PodRadioK; Platinum Rose's Garden; Bum Rush The Charts; Toll Free Number; Donations; Callback; Forum; Podlinez number; comments to I-Tunes, PodCast Alley, Digg.com; prizes have BEEN SENT! (yay!); note to Mark Shields; E-mail - actually a voice mail (yay again!); Trivia Challenge;  Bonehead of the Week
Segment 5 (1:18:53) - Two Christie stories that have been filmed multiple times - Witness For The Prosecution and And Then There Were None/Ten Little Indians

THIS WEEKS NOTES:

This show was a bit crazy, due to the fact that I badly sliced my left index finger open earlier in the day. It feels better today, and I'm actually able to use it to type a bit...so it must be healing...

Near the tail end of segment two, someone blasted a horn outside our window...it picked up on the recording, and I couldn't edit it out, so I left it, and my reaction, in...which leads to...

This weeks' Editing Room Treasure is the longest one we've aired so far...almost three minutes long...but it's worth it, IMHO. The first quickie is Kim having a momentary brain cramp about our e-mail address; the second is a longer clip that comes from the Noir show...Kim inadvertently substituted another Barbara's last name for Barbara Stanwyck's name at the beginning of segment two, and I lost it...and then came down with a HUGE case of the giggles...every time Kim said the words "Double Indemnity", I cracked up...it took us FOUR TAKES to get through the beginning of this segment, and by the end of it, Kim was getting a bit PO'ed, and it shows...but I couldn't help myself...it's one of those times where a word or phrase just sets you off and you can't stop yourself...

The movie where british actor David Suchet has hair isn't an indie film as I mentioned during segment two; it was actually the Albert Brooks movie The In-Laws...you can see a photo of Suchet with hair here.

I mentioned a bit about Marquee Mix during segment four and why the new version and site haven't debuted yet. Please listen and support internet radio. For full information on the impending doom of ALL internet radio, check out Radio And Internet Newsletter, which covers it in-depth, and also provides many links of sites where you can help us out. It's an important issue, and we need EVERYONE'S HELP to take a stand and survive as webcasters.

About BUM RUSH THE CHARTS...this campaign is EXTREMELY important to me and to the podcasting world in general. It takes place THIS THURSDAY, March 22.  If you value the future of music podcasting, please take the time to click the link at the top of the right sidebar and check it out. We need EVERYONE to take part in this because it's so important to the future of the entire music and podcasting industries. Please take the time to check it out.

Also, we're still in need of more Podtrac surveys to be done. We haven't reached that golden 20 surveys yet, and they won't even begin to submit us to advertisers until we reach that number, so if you haven't done it yet, PLEASE take the time out to do so. We need to start earning some funds from advertising, or from more donations, in order to continue to move to the next phase of growth. The last thing we want to do is stagnate, and there's SO MUCH we want to do to help improve our show and make it better. So please help us out, ok?

THIS WEEK'S TRAILER:

Subject:CINEMA #37 - Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto

This week, Kim and I take a look at mechanics in the movies - you know, robots, cyborgs, androids, sentient computers, and the like.

We also want to apologize that we were never able to get individual clips for the Film Fethival up last week. They will go up tomorrow, and will be dated so that the post appears between the original post for last week's show and this one...sorry for the delay....

THE SHOW (times may be off slightly due to Podshow Insertions)

Segment One (:30) - Robots in the movies; what is the difference between robots, cyborgs, and androids; best know robots of film and tv
Segment Two (18:30) - Is Frankenstein a robot?;  Penguin cyborgs; V'Ger
Segment Three (33:46) - sentient computers - HAL, Colossus, Computo (from the Legion of SuperHeroes comics and cartoon); M-5
Segment Four (49:30) - Hardsell - exciting changes upcoming to Marquee Mix; PLEASE donate; Podtrac survey almost over; The Callback and problems therein; the new site and more problems therein; E-mail; Bonehead Of The Week
Segment Five (1:10:30) - Uncanny Valley theory; Frankenstein's Complex; favorite robots of all time

THIS WEEK'S NOTES:

The "Donate" button has been fixed, and now goes back to the old site's donation page. So if you'd care to donate to help us pay for all our projects, you can now do so. Still working on the trivia contest button....soon, I hope....

Please don't forget to Digg us whenever you get the chance, and Podshow Plus listeners, please do the same on the Podshow site. If you listen through Podcast Alley or I-Tunes, don't forget to comment and vote on the show! We need YOUR help; without you guys we would be nothing....

Links to the various topics are either encoded in the show notes above, or will be here in the next day or so...

Next Week: Where The Boys And Girls Are - Spring Break at the Movies!

It's hard to believe how fast time flies....

It's hard to believe that it's been ten long years since I first locked eyes on an unusual program on the SciFi Channel called The Anti-Gravity Room. The show was a weekly magazine show focusing on comics and video games with a little other media -TV, Movies, etc - thrown in for spice.

AGR, as it's fans called it, was co-hosted by a skinny 15 year old named Nick Scoullar, along with Phil Guerrero. Nick was the reason my lady and I watched. For one thing, he knew his stuff when it came to comics - he was the co-creator of the show, and he turned us on to a ton of titles we'd have never heard of otherwise. For another thing, he seemed to get to hang out and interview the coolest people, like Kevin Smith. And yet another thing, we watched to see what color his hair would be each week. He went through half the shades Manic Panic offers every season. Blue, Purple, Red, Bleached blond...it could be anything.

I also thought then that if the stars aligned correctly, NIck was going to be a huge star....

Ten years have gone by, and I still think that, even though he's kept a very low profile since the show ended in 1998. He's now a college graduate who has been lucky enough to become a working actor. He recieved rave reviews for his role in the play Four when it played in Hartford a couple years back. My lady and I tried to get there, but circumstances prevented it. Too bad, we wanted to see how he was doing, and let him know we were still fans.

I recently stumbled across Nick on the web, and dropped him a line letting him know I was a long time fan. He was nice enough to write back and say "Thanks".

Nick is slowly embarking on a movie career these days as well; he stars in the upcoming independent feature release Manfred, and when it comes out, he will hopefully get the notice he deserves...and as I told him in that earlier e-mail, maybe it's time he hits his buddy Kevin Smith up for a part in his upcoming horror film...Nick's certainly the right demographic...

Happy 25th B-Day Nick!  Hope you look back as fondly on your earlier career as the two of us do...and here's hoping for bigger and better things for you as time goes on...

Subject:CINEMA #6 - Supersizing The Big Screen

TC and Kim compare notes on TV shows that have made the leap to the big screen in one format or another.

The Show
Segment 1 (:30) - Successful transitions from TV to Movies - The Fugitive, The Brady Bunch, Star Trek (Classic), Twilight Zone, Mission:Impossible
Segment 2 (TBA) - Not-so-successful transitions to the big screen - The Beverly Hillbillies, Car 54 Where Are You?, Bewitched
Segment 3 (TBA) - Upcoming shows, E-mail, promoing Popcorn N Roses & Marquee Mix, poll results, trivia contest,donations
Segment 4 (TBA) Movie Spinoffs - Serenity, Star Trek:THe Next Generation, South Park - and more upcoming transitions to the big screen