Archive for January 20th, 2012
Book Talk: Absurdist Jim Henson film that wasn’t
By Nick Zieminski NEW YORK | Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:01am EST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Although he was best-known as a creator of children’s puppets like Kermit the Frog, Jim Henson had a parallel career as an experimental filmmaker before “Sesame Street” and “The Muppet Show” made him a household name. He was even [...]
Real-life James Bonds used fake rock to spy on Russia
LONDON | Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:17am EST LONDON (Reuters) – What would James Bond do without the ingenious Q, who provides him with all sorts of improbable gadgets for his espionage adventures? It now seems that Britain’s real-life secret agents have a Q of their own after it emerged that they used a fake [...]
