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In Anime, No One Can Hear Your Children Scream
Posted by Seth at 8:15 AM on March 12, 2008
· The first tantalising images from Britney Spears's next music video have emerged, revealing that the director has devised a clever way to avoid missed call times and awkward wardrobe fittings: Animate her! Still, not all crises were averted, as a famished Cartoon Britney accidentally devoured the cast of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, who happened to be wandering by on their way to a shoot next door. [The Sun]
· Lede of the Day: "CNN said it shouldn't have used a former U.S. attorney who quit his job after allegedly biting a stripper as an analyst about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal." [AP]
· jPod, Canada's Quarterlife, has been canceled. Paging Rockstar Silverman. Paging Rockstar Ben Silverman: Hot foreign series concept in need of U.S. retooling! [The Vancouver Sun]
· The Photoshop Disasters blog wonders what it is about the solid bar between two skyscraper windows that fascinates The Dark Knight so. [Photoshop Disasters]
· Stoner Mary Ann is even cuter when her uncropped mugshot shows you how little she is! [Yahoo News]
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katie
Posted March 20, 2008 3:58 AM
lv briteny's new song it is sooo cool i lv anime soo much soo wen i saw this i woz over the moon plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz make more like this it wud be so cool :D and no matter wot ppl think i think this is the best music vid u hv ever made really :D GO BRITENY!!!!!!!!
mesousa
Posted 1:04 PM 12/3/08
That was sarcasm, right? NBC already put Quarterlife on TV, and then cancelled it after one episode. Rock on.
mesousa
nick_r
Posted 4:57 PM 12/3/08
Also... did they even scan Britney's face for that? The top one looks like Michelle Pfeiffer and the bottom one looks like Rene Russo.
(Hey, that second sentence sounds like something overheard at a porno shoot circa 1991.)
nick_r
nick_r
Posted 4:57 PM 12/3/08
@mesousa: I actually think that was an extremely Machiavellian move on Silverman's part, perhaps in concert with Bob Iger. Look at the progression:
1. Zwick/Herskovitz pitch show to network, get turned down.
2. Z/H flip the bird to the networks and premiere show online, where it gets a lot of buzz.
3. Network decides last-minute to air it anyway, with zero promotion.
4. Show gets low ratings, network cancels it after a single episode, thus killing all the carefully cultivated buzz and pretty much kneecapping its chances of even being successful online.
Well played, nets.
nick_r
Victor Ward
Posted 12:01 AM 13/3/08
Although, until now, I have only been ok with anime when Christian Bale is involved, I defy anyone to watch the Gimme More video and then seriously say that a cartoon stand-in is a bad idea.
And, excuse the gay, but I love that song.
Victor Ward
gwendolyn
Posted 12:43 AM 13/3/08
Without the caption, I would not have know that was Ms. Spears. But anime is one of my sore points (I loathe it and really do not know why) and I personally think the characters on 'South Park' resemble human beings more closely than any one I have ever seen in anime.
But I'm old and cranky and in need of coffee this morning, so never mind...
gwendolyn
Rilo-Andy
Posted 12:43 AM 13/3/08
@Victor Ward: Oh, Victor, you can never do no wrong in my eyes... As a gay, I do enjoy the B. Spears from time to time...
As an anime nerd, I thought an anime Elizabeth Berkley would be atrocious, but she handled herself quite well in Armitage III...
Rilo-Andy
Sugar-N-Spice
Posted 6:43 AM 13/3/08
Ok, first off, just because it's animated doesn't mean it's anime, only that it's animated. And one of the points of animation is that you can create a world that is otherwise only visible in the imagination.
Obviously, that is the case here also.
Sugar-N-Spice