The real Starship Troopers Controversery

Sony has recently granted Starship Troopers a third movie. We all now the schlocky movie with Casper Van Dien but what about the book it was supposedly based on? It was written by Robert A. Heinlein in 1959. Now, the movie wasn't supposed to be based on the book but looked so much like it, they decided to take elements and dialog from it. Now Heinlein was a Naval officer and lots of his views, some which critics believe are strongly his and the book minus plot. There is a lot of philosophical differences between the book and the movie. The book is strongly militaristic and somewhat fascist and against communism.

In contrast, the Federation's wardrobe in the movie is very Nazi-like because director Paul Verhoeven is against Nazis as well from his childhood even though his neighborhood wasn't directly attacked but suffered some. Also, the movie is the only one I know that is gender blind, women and men take showers without qualms about gender roles and a black woman takes high rank with no problem. Where in the book, the women were mostly in the navy. Remember how weird it was that Casper's character name was Rico? Well he was originally Filipino in the book. And Dizzy was a guy, not a girl. The animated series Roughnecks was a mix of both the movie and book but retained Dizzy as a girl. It was unfortuantely was canceled before it could conclude and the company that produced has since folded.

Check out the Wikipedia article

What if it was the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Club?

Keri Russell, Ryan Gosling, J.C. Chavez, JT, Xtina, and the former Mrs. Kevin Federline have been part of the Mickey Mouse Club, as well as Annette Funicello and all those people I don't remember. Anyway, what if it was the Oswald Club, not the Mickey Mouse Club? Or Mickey's Toontown would have been Oswald's Toontown in Disneyland. Why am I mentioning Oswald? Well he is one of the first characters Walt Disney personally created. In that time, Disney didn't have a lot of money so he produced the cartoons for Universal. The first Oswald cartoon (Poor Papa) did not pass Universal's standards but the second (Trolley Trouble) was. Once Oswald was popular, Walt wanted more budget but then Universal told him that most of his crew went to them and that he had to accept a budget cut.

Of course Disney was not going for that so he had to unfortuantely give up his character. He did the last cartoons he had to do under the contract and then moved on. Walt then created Mickey as he believed audiences and children loved small creatures like mice. Like Oswald, Mickey's first cartoon didn't get released until later (The Gallopin' Gaucho) and the now famous Steamboat Willie wasn't technically the first cartoon. And in that, Pete was his enemy, Pete was used before and was a villain to Oswald and later was in Goof Troop and the Goofy movie. More on Pete later.

Now in a clever move, Disney traded Al Michaels from ABC and ESPN to NBC and return NBC/Universal gave them Oswald. Now Disney plans to do projects with Oswald. Check out the Disney official profile of Oswald. I think Walt Disney really cared about Oswald. Under Universal, Oswald went through a lot of changes, becoming a fluffy white rabbit but I like the first design. More on Oswald on Wikipedia.

Beached Whale

A toy I saw on the street, thought it would a funny picture.

National AIDS Day: Another Media Idiot

The stupid bitches on Univision's morning show Desperata America, they actually said that if you were promiscuous like homosexuals, it just makes me angry. They said like si tu eres promiscuo como los homosexuales. They should have said promiscuous like men. My doctor today told me I am HIV negative (it just happened to be the day I could get the results) and then said, 'If you do something different later, the results will be different later.' Duh.

Eric Stromer Eye Candy

This is Eric Stromer, who is currently on HGTV's Over Your Head and has done other repair shows like Clean Sweep and Three Wishes.

He has also composed music for the Drew Carey Show.

He produced and composed and acted for The Acting Thing.

Michael Adams #2 in the soap Santa Barbara.

In 1991, he even played an 'Adonis Plumber' on the indepedent movie Valerie Flake.

He even was in that Feddy Krueger TV series. He is so hot, too bad I couldn't find him shirtless.

Here is his website.

Much more Extra@

A friendly watcher Trenaya brought to my attention of plenty hotties on Extr@ and the other versions other than English and French like German and Spanish. I was surpised to know that Lawerence Ray has played Sam in the Spanish and German version. That must be a lot of work.

Also Javier Marzan who plays Hector in English also played Pablo, the Nick character for Spanish.

While Nic in the German version has been played Frank Brunet. I had never seen either of these series because the channel I see this at is Spanish and has no reason for showing a show that teaches Spanish and they have yet to add German to the curriculum.

Here is a bit of Frank Brunet...

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