Urban Guerrilla department:
See something that needs fixin'? Get to it.

See something that needs makin fun of?
Jump on it.

Obsessed with it?
Join the club.

Movie Magic: Mark Adnum writes in Spiked Online: “The original marketing campaign for Spider Man featured the twin towers prominently. The trailer had escaping bank robbers becoming snared in a giant spider's web, with the camera zooming out to show that the web was suspended between the twin towers . . . the trailer was pulled after Sept. 11. The original publicity poster for the film showed Spider Man wedged, larger-than-life, between the twin towers—the new poster has no towers, just Spider Man.”

“. . . [Hollywood] thought, understandably, that audiences might be thrown by the sight of the twin towers, now too infamous and tragic to be slotted into the background of a no-brainer popcorn flick. So some films released late last year, like Zoolander, had glimpses of the towers digitally removed before their release . . .”

“. . . . At a recent Hollywood forum, writer-director Peter Hyams said, ‘If I had a film that was a comedy and there’s a scene of two people walking up the street and in the background is the World Trade Centre, I'd want that out of my film, because that would certainly make people like me start to cry’.”

"The heralded Segway has claimed its first Atlanta victim. A member of the Central Atlanta Progress Ambassador Force toppled from one of the personal scooters on Cone Street near Luckie Street about 8:40 p.m. Thursday."

Tomorrow in Minneapolis, they’re unveiling a statue commemorating those few seconds in the opening credits of The Mary Tyler Moore Show when Mary tosses her hat in the air. Even though Viacom is footing the bill, the statue is not without its detractors, and even some controversy surrounding the event itself.

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Cage match! And the unanimous decision is...
(that Panda is tougher than it looks)

Jack Valenti - head of the MPAA and one of those screaming about the terrible threat that the Internet represents - had this to say in 1982 about the VCR:

"The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology threatens our entire industry's economic vitality and future security. The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."