Think I gotta cut loose

Published 12:01 am Friday, October 14, 2011

One degree of Kevin Bacon: Herald movie critic Robert Horton says the remake of the teen rebellion dance flick “Footloose” is so close to the 1984 original that it uses many of the same songs and photocopies dialogue and camera angles.

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ywood producers are waiting to see what the box office numbers are like this weekend before green-lighting the shot-for-shot remake of 1984’s other big teen dance hit, “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.”

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Semi-gloss or eggshell? Archaeologists exploring a cave in South Africa have found 100,000-year-old tools used to make and mix paints from red and yellow rocks, animal fat and marrow, as well as abalone shells to hold the vibrant paints.

Even more remarkable were cards with different shades of color displaying names including Elephant Hide, Wandering Wildebeest, Kalahari Sunset and Taupe.

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Too warm for your thneed: Former Vice President Al Gore, D-Lorax, speaking at a Detroit university, said that the extreme storms, wildfires, floods and droughts observed across the globe this year are further proof of climate change and a looming catastrophe for the planet.

The speech was briefly interrupted by the sound of the falling of the very last truffula tree of them all.

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