No New Year’s Eve without this one – ever!
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Happy Easter!
… and Passover and Spring Time and everything else you’re celebrating right around now! Alas, RL had other ideas than letting me enjoy books, blogging and such of late — I’d been hoping to get back to it earlier this year, but … the best-laid plans of mice and men and a’ that. I’m still […]
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Happy Holidays from My Home to Yours!
Have a lovely holiday weekend, however and whichever way you’re spending it. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Festivus, and Happy Newtonmas!
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Andy Serkis: Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic
Blurb: Film-making history was made when, in The Two Towers, an actor’s performance and digital animation were seamlessly integrated to create the world’s first totally lifelike computer-generated character. Now Andy Serkis tells his own story about how a three-week commission to provide a voiceover for Gollum grew into a five-year commitment to breathe life and […]
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I love this one!
So do I. It’s a New Year’s Eve ritual in Germany — runs on every local TV station, and they purposely broadcast it at different times so you can watch it several times per night if you want to! Or that used to be the rationale before there was YouTube, anyway …
I’ve never seen that before – thank you! It’s magnificent.
Brilliant, isn’t it? It’s a New Year’s Eve classic in Germany — oddly still largely unknown in the English speaking world, though the actors are English and they in fact did perform this stunt on stage in England before it was filmed for TV in Germany. — To us Germans, New Year’s Eve just isn’t New Year’s Eve without it, and everybody can practically speak the lines and make the gestures and movements along with them!