Re: [scifinoir2] Tyrese Gibson to play Luke Cage

[KeithBJohnson]

We gonna see Iron Fist too? How about Misty Knight? Love me some Misty Knight! 
The new "Heroes for Hire" comic is a hoot I'm really enjoying, though it feels 
a little odd without Cage and Fist in it...

-- Original message -- 
From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Gibson Sets Sights On Cage

Tyrese Gibson (Transformers) told SCI FI Wire that it's looking 
increasingly likely that he will star in a big-screen movie featuring 
the Marvel Comics hero Luke Cage. If everything goes according to plan, 
Gibson will play Cage, the first black comic-book superhero, in a film 
to be directed by John Singleton, who previously directed Gibson in the 
drama Baby Boy.

"They're doing rewrites on it now, and we actually have a meeting coming 
up on it soon, from what I hear, just to see where we are with the whole 
thing," Gibson said in an interview while promoting Transformers. "Right 
now they're in the process of getting the rewrites done, and then 
they'll, I guess, do kind of a formal presentation to see if it's going 
to be a go."

Asked what interests Gibson most about the super-strong and hard-to-hurt 
Cage character, he replied: "I just love his presence, and I love the 
fact that he's one of the first black comic-book characters. I'd like to 
make the comic-book world proud with what I'm looking to do with Luke 
Cage. So hopefully the opportunity all pans itself out. Me and Singleton 
are both looking to be a part of it, if the screenplay turns out right. 
I met with [producer] Avi Arad, and he's very excited about the 
possibility. But you can't do a great movie without a great script, and 
the ducks have got to line up." —Ian Spelling


 

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Re: [scifinoir2] Speed Racer Zooms To Nicktoons

[KeithBJohnson]

I'm nervous, must wait and see. The Speed Racer remake from a few years back 
was *awful*.  Part of it was the charm of the anime being dubbed with 
fast-talking American voices, and that special thing the Japanese put on their 
work. The remake sucked.  Not sure if this new attempt will be any good, and 
I'm really not feeling this "next generation" angle. Typically this type of 
thing doesn't work. I'm also not feeling any young teen Speed clone. Maybe the 
target Nick audience--which knows nothing about the original Speed Racer--will 
like it, but I'm skeptical...

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From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Racer X, Where for art Thou.

Speed Racer Zooms To Nicktoons
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=42062
Lionsgate has announced plans for its first animated series, a new 
version of the 1960s cartoon Speed Racer, Variety reported. 
Nickelodeon's 24-hour cartoon channel, Nicktoons, is set to run the 
initial 26 episodes.

The new Speed Racer series is set to launch next year, around the same 
time that Warner Brothers' live-action Speed Racer film, directed by the 
Wachowski brothers, is released in theaters. The two properties aren't 
related, but Lionsgate told Variety that the company sees the feature 
film "as a giant promotional vehicle for Speed Racer the brand."

In the new series, a young Speed Racer enters a racing academy for the 
fastest kids on Earth — and discovers that he's the son of the legendary 
Speed Racer from the original series. He also finds out in the first few 
episodes that he has a brother — the new Racer X — whom he never knew 
existed.

Speed Racer wows the school with his Mach 6 (an updated version of the 
original show's Mach 5) — the most advanced vehicle in the universe, 
which doesn't run on gas. Speed and X team together to prevent villains 
from stealing the Mach 6 and to find out who's behind the mysterious 
disappearance of their father.

Other characters returning include the original Speed Racer's younger 
brother Spritle, now headmaster of the racing academy. And chimpanzee 
Chim-Chim, who is now a mechanical robot.

Peter Fernandez, who voiced Speed Racer in the dubbed American version 
of the original Speed Racer, is aboard to voice Spritle.

Speed Racer first aired in the U.S. in 1967, one of the first Japanese 
anime-style franchises to make it here. The franchise was briefly 
revived twice in recent years, in 1993's The New Adventures of Speed 
Racer and 2002's Speed Racer X. Both series were short-lived.


 

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Re: [scifinoir2] "Speed Racer" Site Taking Shape

[KeithBJohnson]

Matthew Fox has the look of Racer X (imagine him with the wrestling mask on). 
He'll probably do well. I think the Brothers W will do a good job with the new 
special effects tech they're working on.  No doubt the writers and artists are 
reliving childhood fantasies: that's what the movies are for!

-- Original message -- 
From: Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
h. Look at those WHEEELS! And the windshield! Aw man, they've 
already sold one ticket. Maybe even a DVD.

As you'll recall, I thought the casting on this was horrible. I 
mean, Matthew Fox as Racer X? But, as I look at the Mach 5 now, I'm 
starting to get it. It doesn't really matter who's in this film. It's 
Speed Racer, and Roger Corman could be directing it for all anybody 
cares. Folks who grew up in my generation have taken over Hollywood's 
creative departments, and are making their childhood fantasies come 
true on the studio's dime. Which is awesome. I could be a hater until 
this movie comes out, but why? It's not "Wuthering Heights", it's 
"Speed Racer". Staying true to the original work only requires 
watching two episodes, and, when you're done laughing, turning those 
episodes into a storyboard.

As for the voices, what would be dope is if the whole movie was 
dubbed. For no reason. Everyone is speaking english, but the dialogue 
is dubbed.

GM has a site where they highlight the vehicles they've allowed to 
be "transformed" and you can see that the designers (re- 
engineers?) are NOT doing this for the suits. They're doing this for 
the fans. I'm staring to feel like there's a big inside joke going 
on with these remakes that, when history looks back, will be seen 
as "generation x's revenge". Take art out of the school system, huh? 
Take 15 years of comic book movies.

Can't wait until someone decides it's time to make a live action 
"Akira".

On Jun 20, 2007, at 10:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> http://speedracerthemovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/main.html
>
> The "Speed Racer" site is being built. You can see a shot of the 
> Mach 5 there (looks awesome), and cast bios and pics. Good choices, 
> especially Ricci as Trixie. The kid playing Spritle is spot-on, 
> too. So, burning questions: is Chim Chim going to be a CGI 
> character? Will Racer X have that cool car from the 'toon? Are they 
> going to have Inspector Detector in the cast? (You *gots* to have 
> Inspector Detector!)
>
> And the most important question of all: will everyone speak in the 
> great goofy rushed double-quick speech that made the Americanized 
> version of the cartoon so hilarious? I used to *love* listening to 
> the actors literally running out of breath as they read their 
> lines. You could often hear them inhaling quickly in the middle of 
> a sentence, especally Pops Racer! The guy who did Pops, by the way, 
> seems to have voiced many additional characters, so it was often 
> funny to listen to, say, the mad scientist who created the "Car 
> with a Brain" (the one that looked like a giant snail) cackling 
> with Pops' voice! Now that I think of it, I think Pops was also the 
> voice of Inspector Detector, the main announcer at all of Speed's 
> races, and perhaps even guest villains like Ali Ben Schemer!
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
> 

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[scifinoir2] Heroes Adds Six New Cast Members

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

Heroes Adds Six New Cast Members
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=42063
NBC has annonced that it has added six new cast members for the upcoming 
season of Heroes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Joining the cast 
in recurring roles will be Barry Shabaka Henley, Holt McCallany, David 
Anders, Eriko Tamura, Lyndsy Fonseca and Dianna Agron.

Anders, best known for his recurring role on Alias, will play the 
ancient samurai warrior Takezo Kensei, the childhood hero of Hiro 
Nakamura (Masi Oka). The last scene of the finale showed Hiro 
inadvertently transporting himself back in time to ancient Japan, where 
he is likely to encounter Kensei next season. Japanese pop star and 
actress Tamura will play a Japanese princess in the same time period.

Henley will play Detective Fuller, a New York police officer. McCallany 
will play Ricky, the ringleader of a group of Irish thugs. Fonseca and 
Agron will play beautiful cheerleaders in Southern California, where 
Claire (Hayden Panettiere) is expected to move. Fonseca's character 
April is sweet, while Agron's Debbie is a mean girl.

The six join Nick d'Agosto, who recently landed a recurring role on 
Heroes next season, as well as Dania Ramirez, who was cast as a new 
regular.


 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Boston Globe reporter looking for local black fantasy/sci-fi fans]

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

Sounds Good  :)  Let me know if  any of you get quoted

Tracey

g123curious wrote:
>
> Tracey:
>
> Thanks for posting this. I'll forward this to my Boston area sci-fi
> club and see if anyone's interested. I've been swamped with work at
> my job, missed this post, and Brent called my attention to this.
>
> George
> Captain
> USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston)
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ussmcnair/ 
> 
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> , "Tracey de Morsella (formerly
> Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  Original Message 
> > Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] Boston Globe reporter looking for
> local black
> > fantasy/sci-fi fans
> > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:17:42 -
> > From: jonesglobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a feature writer in the Living/Arts section of the Boston Globe
> > working on a story about the growing number of black sci-fi/fantasy
> > writers and the people who are reading their work. The story was
> > inspired by the recent release of such books as "Acacia" by David
> > Anthony Durham and a host of writers such as Steven Barnes,
> Tananarive
> > Due and even Walter Mosley, who are dabbling in the genre.
> >
> > I'd love to speak to people of color in the New England area (MA,
> CT,
> > RI, NH, VT) who are fans of sci-fi fantasy and can talk about not
> only
> > how you've developed a love of this genre, but what the importance
> is
> > of having black people write in this genre.
> >
> > Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
>  


 
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[scifinoir2] Transformers' Bay Was No Fan

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

Action director Michael Bay, whose upcoming Transformers opens in July, 
told reporters that he was no big fan of the 1980s toy and animated 
franchise before he was hired. "I was not a Transformers fan before I 
signed on for this movie," Bay said in a press conference in Beverly 
Hills, Calif., over the weekend. "I think I was 2 years old when the 
toys came out, so I just discovered girls then ... instead of Optimus 
Prime," he added, referring to the giant robot leader.

But Bay got a call from executive producer Steven Spielberg, who thought 
he'd be perfect for the job of helming a live-action movie about the 
Autobots and Decepticons and their centuries-old battle for galactic 
supremacy. He even went to "Transformers School" at toymaker Hasbro, 
which owns the brand.

"I really thought, 'What the f--k am I going to Hasbro for Transformers 
School?'" Bay (The Island) recalled. "I thought I was going to learn how 
to fold up robots. But I met with the CEO, and I went through the whole 
Transformers lore, and I was [hooked]."

Bay, who is best known for such high-octane fare as Bad Boys and 
Armageddon, added: "It just hit me that if I make this really real, it 
could be something very new and different. And so I quickly became 
probably one of the bigger Transformers fans in the world. And I tried 
to make this movie for non-Transformers fans, OK? And I wanted it to be 
a little bit more, if you could say, adult."

Transformers, which stars Shia LaBeouf and Jon Voight, opens July 3. 
—Patrick Lee, News Editor

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=42059

[scifinoir2] Speed Racer Zooms To Nicktoons

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

Racer X, Where for art Thou.


Speed Racer Zooms To Nicktoons
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=42062
Lionsgate has announced plans for its first animated series, a new 
version of the 1960s cartoon Speed Racer, Variety reported. 
Nickelodeon's 24-hour cartoon channel, Nicktoons, is set to run the 
initial 26 episodes.

The new Speed Racer series is set to launch next year, around the same 
time that Warner Brothers' live-action Speed Racer film, directed by the 
Wachowski brothers, is released in theaters. The two properties aren't 
related, but Lionsgate told Variety that the company sees the feature 
film "as a giant promotional vehicle for Speed Racer the brand."

In the new series, a young Speed Racer enters a racing academy for the 
fastest kids on Earth — and discovers that he's the son of the legendary 
Speed Racer from the original series. He also finds out in the first few 
episodes that he has a brother — the new Racer X — whom he never knew 
existed.

Speed Racer wows the school with his Mach 6 (an updated version of the 
original show's Mach 5) — the most advanced vehicle in the universe, 
which doesn't run on gas. Speed and X team together to prevent villains 
from stealing the Mach 6 and to find out who's behind the mysterious 
disappearance of their father.

Other characters returning include the original Speed Racer's younger 
brother Spritle, now headmaster of the racing academy. And chimpanzee 
Chim-Chim, who is now a mechanical robot.

Peter Fernandez, who voiced Speed Racer in the dubbed American version 
of the original Speed Racer, is aboard to voice Spritle.

Speed Racer first aired in the U.S. in 1967, one of the first Japanese 
anime-style franchises to make it here. The franchise was briefly 
revived twice in recent years, in 1993's The New Adventures of Speed 
Racer and 2002's Speed Racer X. Both series were short-lived.

[scifinoir2] Tyrese Gibson to play Luke Cage

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

Gibson Sets Sights On Cage

Tyrese Gibson (Transformers) told SCI FI Wire that it's looking 
increasingly likely that he will star in a big-screen movie featuring 
the Marvel Comics hero Luke Cage. If everything goes according to plan, 
Gibson will play Cage, the first black comic-book superhero, in a film 
to be directed by John Singleton, who previously directed Gibson in the 
drama Baby Boy.

"They're doing rewrites on it now, and we actually have a meeting coming 
up on it soon, from what I hear, just to see where we are with the whole 
thing," Gibson said in an interview while promoting Transformers. "Right 
now they're in the process of getting the rewrites done, and then 
they'll, I guess, do kind of a formal presentation to see if it's going 
to be a go."

Asked what interests Gibson most about the super-strong and hard-to-hurt 
Cage character, he replied: "I just love his presence, and I love the 
fact that he's one of the first black comic-book characters. I'd like to 
make the comic-book world proud with what I'm looking to do with Luke 
Cage. So hopefully the opportunity all pans itself out. Me and Singleton 
are both looking to be a part of it, if the screenplay turns out right. 
I met with [producer] Avi Arad, and he's very excited about the 
possibility. But you can't do a great movie without a great script, and 
the ducks have got to line up." —Ian Spelling

[scifinoir2] Speak up, space aliens. These 42 new radio telescopes are all ears.

[Brent Wodehouse]

http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/june-july/Seti.php?page=1

Space Exploration

Can We Hear Them Now?

Speak up, space aliens. These 42 new radio telescopes are all ears.

By Tony Reichhardt


IN The Cascade Mountains of northern California, within sight of Mt.
Shasta's snow-topped, 14,000-foot peak, lies the high valley of Hat Creek,
where they say the fishing is good. People come here in the summer for a
little R&R among the tall trees, away from modern technology and its
discontents. Strange, then, that the valley should also be home to one of
the most futuristic projects on the planet - the Allen Telescope Array,
the first radio observatory built expressly for the Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. The late physicist Philip Morrison, one of
the founding fathers of SETI, called the search "the archaeology of the
future," an attempt to learn whether civilizations more advanced than ours
exist. Some might call that possibility unlikely. Then again, so may be
the long-term survival of humanity. And we still hold hope in that.

On this warm day in March, Jill Tarter is sitting at a desktop computer,
studying sensitivity data from telescope 2H as it pans slowly across the
sky. Outside, visible through the glass doors of this modest
office/utility building, are 42 identical dish telescopes, each the size
of an apple tree. Only 2H is moving. The orchard's pattern appears random,
with dishes facing all directions. In fact, the arrangement is as random
as a computer program can make it.

Tarter writes something down, then goes into an adjoining room to pull one
cable from an electronic console and plug in another. Telescope 2H is
done; time to test another. If you didn't know better, you might guess
this is the IT department for a satellite radio company, and that Tarter
is the head geek. Look around, though, and you'll see something else is
afoot. In the electronics room, one of the refrigerator-size computers
sports a bumper sticker with the question, "Are We Alone?" and a Web
address for the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, where Tarter
is the director for SETI research, "chief cheerleader" (her words) for the
Allen Telescope Array (ATA), and the leading figure in her small and
peculiar field of science (as well as a contributing editor of Air &
Space/Smithsonian). Paul Horowitz of Harvard, probably the second most
prominent SETI-ologist, remarked in 1988: "Jill Tarter has been plugging
away at SETI for at least a decade, rebutting bad ideas, going around
actually doing SETI on the world's telescopes instead of talking about it,
basically calling everyone's bluff and keeping the subject from becoming
too theoretical."

To "do SETI," scientists like Tarter use radio telescopes (usually) to
either scan the sky or point at selected sun-like stars, listening for
signals that would be recognizably artificial in origin. The rationale is
that some extraterrestrial society more advanced than ours, with more
powerful transmitters, might be broadcasting a signal - perhaps a series
of dots and dashes, or a continuous tone - that would stand out from the
natural radio emissions of stars and galaxies. Radio waves are a logical
choice for interstellar communication because they cut through the gas and
dust between stars. It's called the search for extraterrestrial
intelligence, though it isn't really. "We look for evidence of somebody
else's technology," Tarter has said. "I don't know how to find
intelligence."

She is good-humored and friendly, if slightly brisk in manner, as though
constantly aware she's behind in her work. She likely is: These are busy
days.

Tarter has driven the five hours from her SETI Institute office in Silicon
Valley to Hat Creek (the license plate of her Saab sedan reads "SETI") to
spend a week running checks on the ATA telescopes. She and her husband,
Jack Welch, a radio astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley
and a key figure in designing this array, often make the trip in his
Cessna 210 to save time. She flies too, but didn't on this trip.

Tarter worked on her first SETI project, Berkeley's SERENDIP 1, as a grad
student at Hat Creek in the 1970s. She had grown up reading science
fiction, and can't remember ever not believing in the possibility of
extraterrestrial life. What prompted her to make it the focus of her
career was a 1971 NASA study called Project Cyclops, which outlined a
practical approach to building an observatory for radio SETI. Although
Cyclops' array of 1,000 telescopes was deemed too expensive to build, the
idea had great appeal to Tarter, and it set her on an unusual course for a
scientist, where the chance of getting solid results (an alien signal!)
would remain slim, but there would always be plenty of work to do
improving detection methods. Like almost every search conducted to date,
Tarter's first venture into SETI 30 years ago had to piggyback on another
radio astronomy project. Now, at 63, she finally has a dedicated
observatory

[scifinoir2] Re: Boston Globe reporter looking for local black fantasy/sci-fi fans]

[g123curious]

Tracey:

Thanks for posting this. I'll forward this to my Boston area sci-fi 
club and see if anyone's interested. I've been swamped with work at 
my job, missed this post, and Brent called my attention to this.

George
Captain
USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ussmcnair/


--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly 
Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Original Message 
> Subject:  [SciFiNoir Lit] Boston Globe reporter looking for 
local black 
> fantasy/sci-fi fans
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:17:42 -
> From: jonesglobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a feature writer in the Living/Arts section of the Boston Globe
> working on a story about the growing number of black sci-fi/fantasy
> writers and the people who are reading their work. The story was
> inspired by the recent release of such books as "Acacia" by David
> Anthony Durham and a host of writers such as Steven Barnes, 
Tananarive
> Due and even Walter Mosley, who are dabbling in the genre.
> 
> I'd love to speak to people of color in the New England area (MA, 
CT,
> RI, NH, VT) who are fans of sci-fi fantasy and can talk about not 
only
> how you've developed a love of this genre, but what the importance 
is
> of having black people write in this genre.
> 
> Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> Thanks.
>

Re: [scifinoir2] "Speed Racer" Site Taking Shape

[Martin]

VROOOM! VROOOM

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  http://speedracerthemovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/main.html

The "Speed Racer" site is being built. You can see a shot of the Mach 5 there 
(looks awesome), and cast bios and pics. Good choices, especially Ricci as 
Trixie. The kid playing Spritle is spot-on, too. So, burning questions: is Chim 
Chim going to be a CGI character? Will Racer X have that cool car from the 
'toon? Are they going to have Inspector Detector in the cast? (You *gots* to 
have Inspector Detector!)

And the most important question of all: will everyone speak in the great goofy 
rushed double-quick speech that made the Americanized version of the cartoon so 
hilarious? I used to *love* listening to the actors literally running out of 
breath as they read their lines. You could often hear them inhaling quickly in 
the middle of a sentence, especally Pops Racer! The guy who did Pops, by the 
way, seems to have voiced many additional characters, so it was often funny to 
listen to, say, the mad scientist who created the "Car with a Brain" (the one 
that looked like a giant snail) cackling with Pops' voice! Now that I think of 
it, I think Pops was also the voice of Inspector Detector, the main announcer 
at all of Speed's races, and perhaps even guest villains like Ali Ben Schemer!

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Re: [scifinoir2] "Speed Racer" Site Taking Shape

[Daryle]

h. Look at those WHEEELS! And the windshield! Aw man, they've  
already sold one ticket. Maybe even a DVD.

As you'll recall, I thought the casting on this was horrible. I  
mean,  Matthew Fox as Racer X? But, as I look at the Mach 5 now, I'm  
starting to get it. It doesn't really matter who's in this film. It's  
Speed Racer,  and Roger Corman could be directing it for all anybody  
cares. Folks who grew up in my generation have taken over Hollywood's  
creative departments, and are making their childhood fantasies come  
true on the studio's dime. Which is awesome. I could be a hater until  
this movie comes out,  but why? It's not "Wuthering Heights", it's  
"Speed Racer". Staying true to the original work only requires  
watching two episodes, and, when you're done laughing,  turning those  
episodes into a storyboard.

As for the voices,  what would be dope is if the whole movie was  
dubbed. For no reason. Everyone is speaking english, but the dialogue  
is dubbed.

GM has a site  where they  highlight the vehicles they've allowed to   
be "transformed"  and you  can see that  the designers (re- 
engineers?) are NOT doing this for the suits. They're doing this for  
the fans. I'm staring to  feel  like there's a big inside joke going  
on with these remakes that,  when history  looks back, will  be seen  
as "generation x's revenge". Take art out of the school system,  huh?  
Take 15 years of comic book movies.

Can't wait until someone decides it's time to make a live action  
"Akira".

On Jun 20, 2007, at 10:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> http://speedracerthemovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/main.html
>
> The "Speed Racer" site is being built. You can see a shot of the  
> Mach 5 there (looks awesome), and cast bios and pics. Good choices,  
> especially Ricci as Trixie. The kid playing Spritle is spot-on,  
> too. So, burning questions: is Chim Chim going to be a CGI  
> character? Will Racer X have that cool car from the 'toon? Are they  
> going to have Inspector Detector in the cast? (You *gots* to have  
> Inspector Detector!)
>
> And the most important question of all: will everyone speak in the  
> great goofy rushed double-quick speech that made the Americanized  
> version of the cartoon so hilarious? I used to *love* listening to  
> the actors literally running out of breath as they read their  
> lines. You could often hear them inhaling quickly in the middle of  
> a sentence, especally Pops Racer! The guy who did Pops, by the way,  
> seems to have voiced many additional characters, so it was often  
> funny to listen to, say, the mad scientist who created the "Car  
> with a Brain" (the one that looked like a giant snail) cackling  
> with Pops' voice! Now that I think of it, I think Pops was also the  
> voice of Inspector Detector, the main announcer at all of Speed's  
> races, and perhaps even guest villains like Ali Ben Schemer!
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
> 



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[scifinoir2] Boston Globe reporter looking for local black fantasy/sci-fi fans]

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

 Original Message 
Subject:[SciFiNoir Lit] Boston Globe reporter looking for local black 
fantasy/sci-fi fans
Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:17:42 -
From:   jonesglobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Hi,

I'm a feature writer in the Living/Arts section of the Boston Globe
working on a story about the growing number of black sci-fi/fantasy
writers and the people who are reading their work. The story was
inspired by the recent release of such books as "Acacia" by David
Anthony Durham and a host of writers such as Steven Barnes, Tananarive
Due and even Walter Mosley, who are dabbling in the genre.

I'd love to speak to people of color in the New England area (MA, CT,
RI, NH, VT) who are fans of sci-fi fantasy and can talk about not only
how you've developed a love of this genre, but what the importance is
of having black people write in this genre.

Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Thanks.




 
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[scifinoir2] Volunteers sought for Mars test

[Brent Wodehouse]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6221424.stm

Volunteers sought for Mars test

By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News, Paris Air Show


The European Space Agency (Esa) is seeking volunteers for a simulated
human trip to Mars, in which six crew spend 17 months in an isolation tank.

They will live and work in a series of interlocked modules at a research
institute in Moscow.

Once the hatches are closed, the crew's only contact with the outside
world is a radio link to "Earth" with a realistic delay of many minutes.

It sounds like Big Brother, but there are no plans to televise the test.

The modular "spacecraft" measures some 550 cubic metres (19,250 cubic
feet), the equivalent of nine truck containers. It is based at the Russian
Institute for Biomedical Problems in the Russian capital.

The goal is to gain insight into human behaviour and group dynamics under
the kinds of conditions astronauts would experience on a journey to Mars.


Big commitment

With the exception of weightlessness and radiation, the crew will
experience most other aspects of long-haul space travel, such as cramped
conditions, a high workload, lack of privacy, and limited supplies.

The volunteers will be put through a number of scenarios, such as a
simulated launch, outward journey of up to 250 days, an excursion on the
Martian surface, followed by the return home.

The 500-day duration is close to the minimum estimated timescale needed
for a human trip to the Red Planet.

The Earthbound astronauts will have to deal with simulated emergencies and
perhaps even real ones.

But, while Esa says it will do nothing that puts the lives of the
simulation crew at unnecessary risk, officials running the experiment have
made it clear they would need a convincing reason to let someone out of
the modules once the experiment had begun.

"The idea behind this experiment is simply to put six people in a very
close environment and see how they behave," Bruno Gardini, project manager
for Esa's Aurora space exploration programme, told BBC News.


Team ethic

In all, 12 European volunteers will be needed. They must be aged 25-50, be
in good health, have "high motivation" and stand up to 185cm tall.
Smokers, or those with other addictions, to alcohol or illicit drugs, for
example, will be rejected.

Esa is also looking for a working knowledge of both English and Russian.

"We will do pre-selection, medical tests, psychological tests, etc. But at
the end, you really have to see how they react in as close to a real
situation as possible on Earth," explained Mr Gardini.

He added that the results would help define the selection criteria for a
future Mars mission.

"This is the beginning; it will be a long time before we go to Mars," the
Esa official said.

"But this is a field which is difficult to quantify. It's human behaviour,
so there's no method. The Russians have done lots of study in the past and
we will be sharing some data.

"We have to look at the mix of people; at the end of the day, we want a
team."


Robots first

Marc Heppener, of Esa's Science and Application Division, said the
crewmembers would get paid 120 euros (158 dollars) a day.

Viktor Baranov, of Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems, said his
organisation had received about 150 applications, only 19 of which had
come from women.

A precursor 105-day study is scheduled to start by mid-2008, possibly
followed by another 105-day study, before the full 520-day project begins
in late 2008 or early 2009.

European scientists have been asked to submit proposals for experiments in
the areas of psychology, medicine, physiology and mission operations.

Mounting a mission to Mars would face many other hurdles, not least of
which would be shielding the crew against the potentially deadly dose of
radiation they would receive on the journey.

Esa's Aurora programme has already begun preparations to land a rover -
called ExoMars - on the Red Planet. It has the stated aim, however, of
trying to get European astronauts to Mars at some time in the future.

[scifinoir2] OT: First Documented Gunshot Victims in Americas Discovered

[KeithBJohnson]

Wow, what a grim discovery, sad and poignant in the history it represents...

**
Researchers Find 'First Gun Victim'
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer
Wed Jun 20, 0:12 AM
WASHINGTON - The musket blast was sudden and deadly, the killing nearly 500 
years ago of what may have been the first gunshot victim in the Western 
Hemisphere.
"We didn't expect it. We saw this skull and saw the almost round hole and 
thought people must have been shooting around here recently," said Guillermo 
Cock, an archaeologist who found the remains near Lima, Peru.
But he realized that the skull was ancient, and a recent bullet strike would 
simply have shattered it, Cock said in a telephone interview.
The skull was found among a large group of bones of ancient Incas, who had died 
violently in the early 1500s as the Spanish Conquistadors battled the native 
empire.
The bones were in shallow graves, leading the archaeologist to speculate the 
burials were done hurriedly during conflict, perhaps an uprising against the 
Spanish in 1536.
To be sure this was a gunshot wound _ making it the earliest one documented in 
the Americas _ the skull was studied by forensics expert Tim Palmbach at the 
University of New Haven, who brought in other experts.
Al Harper, director of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science in New 
Haven, Conn., said the team "tried to rule out all kinds of causes of the hole 
_ a rock from a slingshot, spear, sledgehammer." Harper and Palmbach studied 
the skull with a powerful scanning electronic microscope.
"We all thought it was a million-to-one chance that we would find any traces of 
metal on a skull that old, but it was worth a try," Harper said in a statement.
But there they were, fragments of metal from a musket ball impregnated the area 
surrounding the hole.
Cock and archaeologist Elena Goycochea discovered the burials in a Lima suburb 
in 2004 and have since recovered 72 apparent victims of violence from the site.
"These bodies were strangely buried," Cock said. "They were not facing the 
right direction, they were tied up or hastily wrapped in a simple cloth, they 
had no offerings and they were buried at a shallow depth.
"Some of the bodies also showed signs of terrible violence. They had been 
hacked, torn, impaled _ injuries that looked as if they had been caused by iron 
weapons _ and several had injuries on their heads and faces that looked as if 
they were caused by gunshots."
One skull in particular had both an entrance and exit wound, suggestive of a 
musket ball and prompting him to seek experts to study it. A plug of bone from 
one of the holes was recovered nearby, he added.
The conclusion: A musket ball less than an inch in diameter struck the back of 
the skull and passed through the head.
"This conclusively proves that the person was killed by a gunshot, and he is 
the first identified shooting victim in the Americas," Cock said.
Since the initial find, at least two other apparent gunshot victims have been 
identified and the research is continuing.
Cock discussed his find during a visit to the National Geographic Society, 
which supported the work. His findings will be detailed June 26 on a 
NOVA/National Geographic television special, "The Great Inca Rebellion."
In 2002, Cock reported finding more than 2,000 Inca mummies buried beneath a 
shantytown near Lima, a find he said helped shed light on the life, health and 
culture of this civilization.

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[scifinoir2] "Speed Racer" Site Taking Shape

[KeithBJohnson]

http://speedracerthemovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/main.html

 The "Speed Racer" site is being built. You can see a shot of the Mach 5 there 
(looks awesome), and cast bios and pics.  Good choices, especially Ricci as 
Trixie. The kid playing Spritle is spot-on, too. So, burning questions: is Chim 
Chim going to be a CGI character? Will Racer X have that cool car from the 
'toon? Are they going to have Inspector Detector in the cast? (You *gots* to 
have Inspector Detector!)

And the most important question of all: will everyone speak in the great goofy 
rushed double-quick speech that made the Americanized version of the cartoon so 
hilarious? I used to *love* listening to the actors literally running out of 
breath as they read their lines. You could often hear them inhaling quickly in 
the middle of a sentence, especally Pops Racer!   The guy who did Pops, by the 
way, seems to have voiced many additional characters, so it was often funny to 
listen to, say, the mad scientist who created the "Car with a Brain" (the one 
that looked like a giant snail) cackling with Pops' voice! Now that I think of 
it, I think Pops was also the voice of Inspector Detector, the main announcer 
at all of Speed's races, and perhaps even guest villains like Ali Ben Schemer!

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Re: [scifinoir2] How high will gasoline prices go?

[Martin]

The buses I prefer to ride anyway are either hybrids or hydrogen- or natural 
gas-powered.

George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Hint: buy a hybrid (or a bicycle) 
now:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Economy/cdagasprices.cfm

George

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[scifinoir2] How high will gasoline prices go?

[George]

Hint: buy a hybrid (or a bicycle) now:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Economy/cdagasprices.cfm

George




   

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