Forget Aliens, this is surely the strangest change of tone for a sequel, ever.
I’m sorry.
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Well, after all my recent posts about other people being unclear about gifts they wanted for Christmas, karma has come to bite me on the arse, and the pictures here show a DVD and book which I received yesterday.
Not the ones I had in mind, I have to say.
All right, lesson learned.
I thought that my previous problem with mixed-up gifts might get me in trouble, but all my notebook says for the presents for my sister and my niece alike is ‘Circus CD’.
The items are on the table before me, and they need wrapping in the next few minutes. Looks like I’d better flip a coin…
Antony Gormley’s Angel Of The North, and Walt Disney’s Condorman.
Despite the obvious similarities, only one of them is considered to be a work of art.
Can you guess which, and why? Answer using your own words as far as possible. (25 marks)
Here then, the covers of the latest copies of two similarly-themed magazines: the Fortean Times (issue 243, running since the 1970s), and Paranormal magazine (issue 32, founded… er, I dunno, but I’m guessing it’s more recently).
Would I be out of line to suggest the similarity of design might not be an accident?
(Full disclosure: I’ve written for the FT before, but still…)
My mother-in-law and my neice have both asked for a CD called ‘The Promise’ for Christmas.
I shall have to be very careful with the gift tags, or great disappointment may ensue…
Neil Patrick Harris as Dr Horrible, and Jack Knight as DC Comics’ Starman.
One baddie. One goodie.
And, it seems, one goggle supplier in common.
…then I saw the names of the actors above the title.
Alec Baldwin and Scarlet Johansson together in a film? Wow, that might be – hey, hang on a minute, they put the forenames of the cast in smaller type in the hope I wouldn’t notice! The swines!
And that mendacity of marketing is enough to make me think nope, it’s a swipe.
And the strangest thing is, I’m pretty sure that both adverts appeared, mere pages apart, in US comics of the time.
…the one-idea man is King.