I know where she’s leaping!

It’s not a leap year, but it’s Rom-Com season, so there’s a new movie called “Leap Year,” featuring Amy Adams, who was so charming in “Enchanted.”

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The 30-second commercials for “Leap Year” that I saw on “The Colbert Report” were all I needed to know it’s a reworking of “I Know Where I’m Going!”, which features the one and only Petula Clark, when she was a child star in England.

The new movie isn’t getting very good reviews, but that isn’t the fault of the original, which is but one of the quirky, unique, and unforgettable productions of The Archers — as Michael Powell and Emerick Pressburger called their collaborations. Give this scene a try, and see what you think of the interplay between these eccentric characters and their ad hoc family.

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If you found that clip at all intriguing, you should try the other samples from The Archers that I’ve posted:

Ringo’s starr still shines

Good old Ringo, the eldest Beatle, born three months before John, turns 70 this year. Back in ’08 Eric and I saw Ringo in Boston, and now he’s out plugging his new record — that I downloaded from Amazon last night, after seeing him on the Daily Show.

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A Freed man

BBC Radio 2 has a Listen Again (podcast) documentary about pioneering Rock and Roll DJ Alan Freed. I was going to listen to just a few minutes and finish it later, but instead sat through the whole show in one sitting. I think it should be available until next week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pqb52/The_Inventor_of_Rock_and_Roll_The_Alan_Freed_Story/

Caught in the Net net

I have a bunch of Google Alerts. One that I deleted was for the Beatles, because thanks to Beatles News there wasn’t a need for it. One of the active alerts is for my not-so-secret shame, K3, and in today’s catch I was expecting something like this…

… but instead I found this.

Dedicated eBook readers have, I feel, a rather limited number of potential customers. The extended battery life with e-paper when the transmitter is turned off is nice, however. I’m not very sanguine about large, backlit LCD touch panels, either, because the battery life will undoubtedly be poor. Which is why I’m intrigued by something that was pointed out to me by tech-savvy tastewar.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/the-pixel-qi-display/