"Moon River", eine Marmorfassade und mächtig Kitsch: Vor 50 Jahren kam "Frühstück bei Tiffany" in die Kinos und machte Audrey Hepburn zur Stil-Ikone. Dabei stand der Film, der das Frauenbild in den USA revolutionierte, ständig auf der Kippe - und verleitete den Verfasser der Romanvorlage zu einer Hasstirade.

This week RM Auctions will sell what it calls the oldest known automobile. The company expects the car to sell for at least $2,000,000. From the RM Auction site:

When the young Comte de Dion stopped at the Giroux toy shop on Paris’s Boulevard des Italiens in December 1881, he was looking for toys to give as prizes at a ball he was planning. But he was intrigued by the quality of the workmanship of a model steam engine and asked who had built it.

Directed to the workshop out back, he found Georges Bouton and Charles-Armand Trepardoux. They were earning a measly seven francs a day building model boats and steam engines and scientific instruments. De Dion promptly offered them 10 francs a day and asked them to build a full-size engine, such as might power a carriage. So, in much the same way as the aristocratic Charles Rolls engaged engineer Henry Royce some 20 years later, a multi-class partnership was formed between a wealthy entrepreneur and working class craftsmen.

Comic-Legende „Captain Future“ Das Sternenkind in Syntheseide

Edmond Hamilton schuf mit seiner während des Zweiten Weltkriegs entstandenen Abenteuerserie „Captain Future“ eine Zukunft, die wir noch vermissen werden.

Damals verkaufte man noch Kaffee, in dem man die Frau schlecht redete.

Chris and J.D. Matonti and their mom Julia Coppola have been coming to Comic Con the better part of a decade with their "transmedia property" New-Gen. When I first encountered them a few years back, their super hero story was a pastiche of teens, nanobots and Egyptian mythology crudely illustrated with their own drawings. On day four of Comic-Con, I finally encounter their booth while touring across the exhibit floor and am shocked by the professional gloss and intense color of the latest issues of New-Gen. They have animated videos running on the table; Mark Hamil (Luke Skywalker himself) is voicing the character of Gabriel. They even have a theme song!

70 Jahre nach der Herrschaft von Ang und mit einer hübschen Steampunk-Stadt.

via Laughing Squid

Joe Johnston (Regie: Captain America) würde gerne zu einem alten Projekt zurückkehren: The Rocketeer.

I’d love to make a sequel to The Rocketeer. The film didn’t do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following. It was great fun and I’d love to re-explore Cliff Secord’s world. If there are other comic-book heroes who have as human a story as Steve Rogers, I’d be interested. Too many comic-book movies rely on spectacle when the story is weak.

Noch in mieser Qualität (und spanisch), aber das könnte endlich mal wieder ein großer Abenteuerfilm werden.

HGTV and Disney Parks join forces to surprise lucky homeowners with an eye-popping backyard makeover they never thought possible.

Queste A: Ich muss diese Show im Netz finden
Queste B: Ich muss den Garten umbauen.