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Link Time! 5/5

BuzzSugar — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:30:45 -0700

A film clip tribute to Dom DeLuise, who died Monday night. - Popwatch
Mad Men won't be on till August, but there's some fun casting news to make up for the wait. - TV.com
Zac Efron's 17 Again costar (and former State guy!) Thomas Lennon chats about the possibility of making 18 Again. - MTV Movies Blog
Remember Wayne Coyne's feud with the Arcade Fire? He's apologized. - The Music Mix
A great Summer for movies: 1985. - Cinematical
Fun with the October Road finale, which is in stores today. - Watch With Kristin
Five memorable workplace movies. - SavvySugar
Would you watch Milo Ventimiglia's geek battle show? - TV Squad

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Link Time! 12/23

BuzzSugar — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:00:48 -0800

Aimee Mann's video version of A Christmas Carol features such funny people as Michael Cera, John C. Reilly, John Krasinski, and others. - Videogum
Wow, this is geekarific: How to knit Star Wars sabers. - geeksugar
It's not new, but that doesn't make it any less wonderful: The Scrubs/Charlie Brown Christmas clip. - Popwatch
Why is there no music equivalent term for "jumping the shark"? - Monitor Mix
Aw! Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne lists 12 reasons why Christmas matters. - Spinner
Also, Merry Christmas from Kenneth the Page! - TV Squad
7 cult and campy holiday movies. - Cinematical
The Office t-shirt design contest: awesome or totally exploitative? - TV Filter

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The Flaming Lips Are Broadway Bound

BuzzSugar — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:56:18 -0700

The Flaming Lips are famous for on-stage theatrics involving puppets, bunny costumes, and frontman Wayne Coyne crowd-surfing in a giant hamster ball. So it seems fitting that the band's highly captivating 2002 album, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, will soon be made into a Broadway musical.

In an exclusive interview, Coyne told EW.com that the band is working with "The West Wing" and "Studio 60" creator Aaron Sorkin to adapt the album for the stage. Tony Award-winning director/producer Des McAnuff, whose credits include "Jersey Boys" and "The Who's Tommy," has also signed on for the show.

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Coyne already beat me to the punch in making a joke about Sorkin's trademark walking and talking style: "Maybe that means they'll need to build a stage with lots of hallways on it." Here's what else he had to say to EW about the project:

"There's the real world and then there's this fantastical world," explains Coyne. "This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It's almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive."

Bizarre, yes, but Broadway lately seems to be gravitating toward increasingly weird musicals. I mean, who knew the disturbing 1975 documentary Grey Gardens would make good song-and-dance fodder? And at least we can be sure that Yoshimi show will have plenty of good music. I know the production is probably years away, but already I'm excited to see it.

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