Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
On Lucasfilm’s release of 'Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith' the studio has also added some hidden features, as expected. Trust the Force and you shall find them, or alternatively just read one for our instructions.
As previous Star Wars releases, the DVD features three different menu themes that are selected at random when you insert the first disc of the set in your player.
If you wish to directly select one of these themes you can do so too, of course.
Simply insert the first disc of the DVD set in your player and wait for the FBI screen to show up. Here, press either the '1', '2' or '3' key on your remote control to directly select each of the menu themes.
Now, go to the disc’s Main Menu and highlight the THX logo on the screen using your remote control. Now press the numbers '1','1', '3' and '8' on your remote control and you will have access to a very cool clip of Yoda rapping - courtesy of ILM’s Rob Coleman - followed by the DVD’s production credits.
Alternatively you can simply access title #3 directly on the DVD to see the clip as well. Since accessing titles is handled differently by each player, please consult your user manual to see how to do it on your particular model.
Simpson Busts Out with Best Cleavage
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Forget about Jessica Simpson's purported rocky marriage. There are a couple other things on people's minds now.
The pop/movie star's bosom has been named the Best Cleavage, according to a hard-hitting Hollywood poll by In Touch Weekly.
"With a pair of perfect double Ds, Jessica sets the standard for busty bombshells," declares the celebrity publication.
Despite the negative media attention for her princess-like behavior on "Newlyweds" and rumors of her troubled marriage with Nick Lachey, Simpson has generally received positive attention for her rack. Even dad/manager Joe Simpson once voiced his appreciation for his daughter's assets: "She just is sexy. If you put her in a T-shirt or you put her in a bustier, she's sexy in both. She's got double Ds! You can't cover those suckers up!" Okay, eww.
For her big-screen debut in "Dukes of Hazzard," she covered the song "These Boots Are Made for Walking," and sings about her double-Ds -- referring to the Daisy Duke initials of course.
Runners-up on the busty poll include Latin beauty Salma Hayek, Carmen Electra, actress/mother/activist Angelina Jolie, "Monster's Ball" star Halle Berry, "Ghost Whisperer" sensitive Jennifer Love Hewitt, "Lost in Translation's" Scarlett Johansson, diva Maria Carey, the 59-year-old Susan Sarandon and "Desperate Housewives" star Nicollette Sheridan.
Simpson, 25, appeared with her husband on "Newlyweds" and on variety and USO specials on ABC. She made her silver screen debut as Daisy Dukes in this summer's "Dukes of Hazzard."
NEW CD RELEASES FOR NOVEMBER 1, 2005
3 Wake Pig (Metal Blade)
7th Octave The Se7enth Degree (Slam Jamz)
Ryan Adams 29 (Lost Highway)
Akron/Family & Angels of Light Akron/Family & Angels of Light (split CD; includes cover of Bob Dylan's "I Pity the Poor Immigrant") (Young God)
Altamont (w/the Melvins' Dale Crover) The Monkees' Uncle (AntAcidAudio/Ipecac)
Amandine This Is Where Our Hearts Collide (Fat Cat)
The Amino Acids Destroy the Warning Sun (Amino Acids)
Trey Anastasio Shine (DualDisc; produced by Brendan O'Brien; featuring backing band 70 Volt Parade) (Columbia)
Burt Bacharach At This Time (Columbia)
Ballerz Ink Tha Hustle (Thump)
Bobby Bare The Moon Was Blue (produced by Bobby Bare, Jr.) (DualTone)
Bauls of Bengal Bauls of Bengal (Empire)
Greg Behrendt Is Uncool (Warner Bros.)
Birdman Fast Money (Chopped & Screwed) (Universal)
The Black Angels The Black Angels EP (Light in the Attic)
Brian Blain Overqualified for the Blues (NorthernBlues)
Bril Airless Alarm (Kirtland)
Cantoma Cantoma (Quango)
Terri Clark Life Goes on (Mercury Nashville)
The Cops Get Good or Stay Bad (Mt. Fuji)
Cruna A Hustla's Love Story (Reprise)
Deep Purple Rapture of the Deep (Eagle)
Ed Gein Judas Goats and Dieseleaters (Blackmarket/Metal Blade)
Fatlip (ex-Pharcyde) Theloneliest Punk (CD/DVD combo) (Delicious Vinyl/The LAB)
Fielding Fielding (The Militia Group)
Fire Engines Codex Teenage Premonition (Domino)
John Fogerty The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection (Fantasy)
Garaj Mahal Blueberry Cave (Harmonized)
Goldfrapp No. 1 EP (Mute)
The Happy Bullets The Vice and Virtue Ministry (Undeniable)
Zac Harmon The Blues According to Zachariah (Bluestone/33rd Street)
Richie Hawtin DE9: Transitions (CD/DVD combo) (Mute)
The Hong Kong The Hong Kong EP (Sanctuary)
Hooker Hall Ranaldo (w/Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo) Oasis of Whispers (Alien8/Southern)
Imogen Heap Speak for Yourself (RCA Victor)
The Impossibulls Slave Education (Slam Jamz)
Goran Ivanovic & Fareed Haque Seven Boats (re-release of 2004 album) (Proteus)
Freddie Jackson Personal Reflections (Artemis)
Diana Krall (featuring the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra) Christmas Songs (Verve)
Lagwagon Resolve (Fat Wreck Chords)
Lokote Dia de los Muertos (Thump)
Brian McBride When the Detail Lost Its Freedom (Kranky)
Mel Melton & the Wicked Mojos Papa Mojo's Roadhouse (Louisiana Red Hot)
Mi and L'au Mi and L'au (produced by Michael Gira of Swans) (Young God)
Moonlight Towers Like You Were Never There (Spinster)
The Negatones The Negatones (Skylab)
O.C. Smoke and Mirrors (Hiero Imperium)
Ozzy Osbourne Under Cover (DualDisc same day; covers album; part of box set, "Prince of Darkness") (Epic)
Panic Division Versus (The Militia Group)
Sista Monica Parker Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (Mo Muscle)
Peasall Sisters Home to You (DualTone)
Princess Princess (Sickroom/Southern)
Public Enemy New Whirl Odor (available exclusively at Best Buy from 10/4-11/1, after which it goes to regular retail) (Slam Jamz)
Santana All That I Am (w/Mary J. Blige, Outkast's Big Boi, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, Los Lonely Boys and more) (Arista)
Kokanko Sata Kokanko Sata (Astralwerks)
Signaldrift Set Design (Consumers Research & Development)
Slipknot 9.0: Live (two CDs; includes one previously unreleased track) (Roadrunner)
Sun Kil Moon (w/Mark Kozelek) Tiny Cities (all covers of Modest Mouse songs) (Caldo Verde)
Rob Swift War Games (CD/DVD combo; guests Large Professor, the Beatnuts' Psycho Les and more) (Caroline)
Tangiers The Family Myth (w/ex-Guided by Voices drummer Jon McCann) (FrenchKiss)
Test Icicles Boa Vs Python EP (Domino)
Transplants Haunted Cities (Chopped & Screwed) (Atlantic)
Lobi Traore Lobi Traore Group (Astralwerks)
Truco & Zaperoko Musica Universal (Universal)
The Vacancies A Beat Missing or a Silence Added (co-produced by Joan Jett) (Blackheart)
Kenny Vance & The Planotones Lover's Island (Varèse Sarabande)
Vaux Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice (Lava/Atlantic)
John Wackerman Drum Duets Volume 1 (w/Steve Gadd, Josh Freese, No Doubt's Adrian Young and more) (Eyeperian)
Western Jubilee Artists Christmas Trail (DualTone)
White Ghost Shivers Live on the Radio (Chicken Ranch)
Wilco Kicking Television - Live in Chicago (CD/DVD combo) (Nonesuch)
VA Christmas Eclectic (Burn and Shiver)
VA Gilles Peterson Presents the BBC sessions (two CDs; previously unreleased performances from the Roots, Beck, Björk, Jamie Cullum and more) (Ether Music)
VA I Like It, Vol. 2 (tracks selected by DJ/producers Richard Dorfmeister, Trevor Jackson, Pole and Trickski) (Compost)
VA NOW 20 (Universal)
VA Verve Remixed - Complete Deluxe Box (four CDs) (Verve)
OST According to Jim (ABC TV series; w/the Blues Brothers) (Hollywood)
OST Brokeback Mountain (Heath Ledger/Jake Gyllenhaal drama) (Verve)
DVD Caribou Marino (Domino)
DVD Tommy Castro Whole Lotta Soul (Blind Pig)
DVD Cher Extravaganza Live (Eagle Rock)
DVD DMX The Smoke Out Festival Presents (Eagle Rock)
DVD Duran Duran Live from London (deluxe edition CD/DVD combo same day; includes performances from 2004 shows at London's Wembley Arena) (Coming Home Studios/Rounder)
DVD R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet Chapters 1-12 (includes documentary, behind-the-scenes footage and Kelly's commentary) (Jive)
DVD Yngwie Malmsteen Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra (Eagle Rock)
DVD Youssou N'dour Live at Montreux 1989/1995 (Eagle Rock)
DVD Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers Big Blues Party (Blind Pig)
DVD Straylight Run Live at the Patchoque Theatre (Victory)
UMD Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Spitfire)
'Star Wars': Entirely on DVD
Star Wars fans with a spare 13-plus hours (not counting extras) can now watch the groundbreaking saga from start to finish.
With Tuesday's release of Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, all six films are on DVD.
"People will be able to watch it as one linear story, which was George's original intention," says Hayden Christensen. He played Anakin Skywalker in this year's Sith and 2002's Attack of the Clones.
Sith grossed $380.3 million as it lured back some of the audience lost by 2002's Clones, which earned only $310.7 million, a big drop from $431.1 million for 1999's Phantom Menace.Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) was the saga's biggest at the box office with $461 million.
In this week's battle of the heavyweight DVD releases, Lucas' Sith is likely to beat Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds and be among the year's top sellers, says Scott Hettrick, home entertainment editor for DVD Exclusive magazine. Sith, he says, "is the final chapter in the saga that anyone who has ever been a fan of Star Wars will want to own."
As with Menace and Clones, the DVD for Sith offers lavish extras:
•Within a Minute: The Making of Episode III, a 78-minute segment, chronicles the 70,441 hours it took to create 60 seconds of Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber duel. "It's rather extraordinary, the separate departments and number of people whose skills are involved to make this one minute," says Ian McDiarmid, who plays Supreme Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious.
• Among the six deleted scenes is Yoda's arrival on Dagobah, where Luke Skywalker finds him in The Empire Strikes Back.
• There are two levels of the Xbox version of the Star Wars Battlefront II video game and an Easter egg that shows Yoda dancing to a hip-hop beat.
Muppets Become Victims of Computerized Animation
Computerized animation may have made the intricate puppetry that went into the production of the Muppet characters as obsolete as hand-drawn animation, one of the original Muppet creators indicated today (Tuesday) in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. Promoting the latest Star Wars DVD, which went on sale today, Frank Oz, who created the Yoda character for the films and provided the voice, said that in the original films, operating the puppet involved "hard, sweaty, down-and-dirty work in the pit." He disclosed that it took four people to operate Yoda. In Episodes I and II, however, Yoda was created by computer animators, and now, he said, "the actual puppet can't work" in filmmaking any longer. "Those days have gone by -- we're in a digital age," Oz told the Tribune. "That puppet would look archaic. But he'll always have a place in my heart."
Woody Allen would do it all again
NEW YORK (AP) - Woody Allen says his relationship with wife Soon-Yi Previn, which has a "more paternal feeling," is "one of the truly lucky things that happened to me in my life."
Allen, a two-time Oscar winner, married Previn in 1997. She is the adopted daughter of Andre Previn and Mia Farrow, Allen's former girlfriend.
In 1992, Allen was discovered to be having an affair with Previn, then 22, while he was dating Farrow. He and Previn have two daughters, ages five and six.
"I'm sure there are things that I might have done differently," he says in an interview in Vanity Fair magazine, on newsstands Nov. 8. "Probably in retrospect I should have bowed out of that relationship (with Farrow) much earlier than I did."
But Allen, who will be 70 on Dec. 1, says age hasn't brought wisdom.
"I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today," he tells the magazine.
Despite the calamitous beginnings of his relationship with Previn, he says, "It was just completely fortuitous. One of the truly lucky things that happened to me in my life."
"I don't ever feel that I'm with a hostile or threatening person. It's got a more paternal feeling to it."
Though his separation and subsequent custody battles with Farrow over their three children was bitter, Allen says he wanted to cast her in his 1995 film, Mighty Aphrodite. Casting director Juliet Taylor talked him out of it, and the part went to Helena Bonham Carter.
"I'm just not the kind of person that thinks, 'Well, you did a terrible thing to me in my life, and so I'm not working with you,' " he says. "I mean, there's a line that you draw. I wouldn't put, you know, Hermann Goring in a part, but short of Nuremberg crimes ..."
Allen will release his latest film, Match Point, in December, a thriller starring Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. It has been acclaimed as a return to form for Allen, who won Oscars for 1977's Annie Hall and 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters.
His screen credits also include Interiors, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo and Deconstructing Harry.
"I'm made, oh, perfectly decent films," he says. "But not 8 1/2, not The Seventh Seal, The 400 Blows or L'Avventura - ones that to me really proclaim cinema as art, on the highest level. If I was the teacher, I'd give myself a B."
HOMER GIVES AT 'OFFICE'
Attention Homer Simpson: you may have already lost your beloved Marge to British comedic icon, Ricky Gervais.
The creator, writer and star of the original BBC version of "The Office" says Fox is putting the finishing touches on an episode of "The Simpsons" that he wrote and appears in as a guest star.
The soundtrack and voices for the show are done, Fox sources say, but the episode will spend the next few months being animated.
In "Homer Simpson: This is Your Wife," expected to air next spring, the Simpson family visits Fox's California studios.
At the Fox studio lot, the Simpsons see things like a Mischa Barton statue, and Homer gets to meet Dan Castellaneta from "The Tracey Ullman Show." Castellaneta has been the voice of Homer since "The Simpsons" first appeared as short animated sketches on "Tracey Ullman" in the late 1980s.
Then at Fox, Homer and Marge wind up on a reality show called "Disparate Housewives" to try to win money for a big-screen TV.
Homer gets saddled with a nasty, belittling Yale professor who is married to Gervais' character, Charles.
Meanwhile Marge is shipped off to Connecticut to live with Charles. There, he falls in love with her and tries to woo her with his mediocre guitar skills — reminiscent of Gervais' character, David Brent, who had musical aspirations on the BBC sitcom "The Office."
Gervais told a British newspaper that after his experience with "The Simpsons" and other American projects, he has a deeper bond with American TV shows than he does with British TV.