Archive for July, 2008
‘Lost’ creators vow: “…we will kill more white people this season.”
I’ve been a Lost fan since day one, which unless you backlogged your Netflix queue with Lost DVD’s, is pretty much the only way to understand what’s going on. That said, I was saddened when they killed off Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) at the conclusion of season 4 a couple of months back - I [...]
Tony Leung Married!
Well ladies, it’s all over. Tony Leung got married to his longtime girlfriend Carina Lau (they worked together on Infernal Affairs). Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7519187.stm
Two very talented people (well, one very talented person and one slightly less talented person) joined in holy matrimony. How sweet.
WAAHHHHHH!!…gnashgnashgnash.
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Live-Action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ in development at Fox
Aint-It-Cool-News reports that Anime News Network reports that IF Magazine reports (don’t you love how internet ‘journalism’ works?) that a live-action adaptation of the classic (as in quality, not age) anime Cowboy Bebop is in development at Fox.
Details? None. Well - Erwin Stoff is producing, and he worked on the cool-as-balls Philip K. Dick adaptation [...]
Yellow Menace Theater - ‘Lost in Translation’
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News Flash: Scientists = Big Geeks
I hate to say it, since it reinforced Hollywood stereotypes…but most scientists are big geeks.
I know this because my husband is a scientist, and he is a big geek (I am a big geek too, but I am not a scientist). Also, many of the scientists we know are big geeks.
He is a biochemist, which [...]
‘Smart’ vending machines drive Japanese nicotine-fiends to convenience stores
New ’smart’ vending machines, which require ID before dispensing devil-weed, have driven the Japan’s smoking populace to convenience stores - leading to double-digit returns. Wonder if the convenience store lobby in Japan helped push that legislation through…
Vending machines began to require the special smart ID card, called Taspo, in certain areas of the country from [...]
VIZ Media announces ‘Nana 2′ on DVD
Press release follows:
VIZ PICTURES ANNOUNCES DVD RELEASE OF ROCK AND ROLL ROMANTIC DRAMA NANA 2
DVD Release And Special Poster Promotion Highlight Sequel To Hit Film NANA Based On Popular Shojo Manga Series
San Francisco, CA, JULY 22, 2008 – VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media, LLC that focuses on Japanese live-action film distribution, has [...]
What are China’s Olympic preparations *really* telling us?
Every day when I scour the internet for stuff to blog here at Yellow-Menace I come across yet another preparatory measure Beijing is taking to welcome the world to their fair city for the upcoming Olympic games. While most of them, like the innumerable security precautions being set in place, are pretty sound - [...]
G.I. Joe, or G.I. Nooooooooo?
Tonight at dinner, my husband said, “I have something to tell you. If you weren’t already sitting down, I would tell you to sit down.”
He didn’t look unhappy, so I ate my pasta and waited.
As it turns out, Hollywood has been working on a live-action G.I. Joe movie, set to be released in 2009.
Now, I’m [...]
WaiWai Me 2: The Sequel
It seems the removal of the WaiWai section from Mainichi Daily (the English-language web version of Tokyo’s popular Mainichi Shimbun newspaper) preceded some even bigger changes- the website is now offline, hopefully temporarily, as the writers and editors regroup to review their goals for the site.
The WaiWai problem has called into question whether the Mainichi [...]
