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Bale Arrested for Assaulting Elderly Mom, Sister

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:09:00 GMT

BATMAN star Christian Bale has been arrested by detectives investigating a claim of assault, police sources said today.

Bale, 34, faces questioning over the claim â made by his own mother and sister.

A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: âA 34-year-old man attended a central London police station this morning by appointment.

âHe was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault. He currently remains in custody.â

Bale was arrested just hours after he attended the first European screening of the new Batman blockbuster, The Dark Knight.

But he was able to attend the first European screening of new Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight in Londonâs West End.

He is alleged to have lashed out on Sunday night at Park Laneâs Dorchester Hotel â where he has a suite.

Mum Jenny, 61, and sister Sharon, 40, who lives in Dorset, went to a police station in Hampshire yesterday to lodge the allegation. The matter was referred to the Met Police.

Detectives, well aware of last nightâs glittering bash, took the decision not to approach Bale yesterday. But they were expected to make attempts to quiz the Wales-born actor today.

I know what you're thinking: Batman's WELSH???

Source

-- FuzzyDave

Animal Crossing: City Folk due Fall 08

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:09:00 GMT

We all have our gaming Guilty Pleasures. Mine is Animal Crossing. I simply adore the game. It's so kawaii you need two bumps of insulin to play it.

At E3 this week, Nintendo announced Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii -- supposedly due out November 16th or thereabouts.

One of the features in this new game is the ability to transfer your character and accumulated items from your DS to the Wii.

Here's the Official Nintendo footage from E3:

Here's the presentation video:

More videos can be found at gametrailers.com

-- FuzzyDave

Dark Knight Box Office

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:52:00 GMT

The latest report on the box office for Dark Knight have the film grossing $66.4 million on Friday, that's including the $18.5 million it took in on midnight/3 a.m. screenings (which beats the $16.9 million record set by Revenge of the Sith).

Dark Knight is expected to take in well over $100 million this weekend. The question is, how much over 100 and will the film set a new record for biggest 3-day opening?

The record to beat is Spider-Man 3, which bagged $151 million its opening weekend.

As you can see, virtually every one of us at the GD Labs lowballed our prediction, making TheQuarterMexican the winner:

TheQuarterMexican: $120
SnarfJizzle: $69 million
FuzzyDave: $62 million
Elly: $63.74 million

We'll keep updating as new figures roll in.

Saturday Update:

Unofficial Saturday estimate: $48 million

That puts the total to 114.4, which means DK needs to make $36.6 million to tie Spider-Man 3

Sunday Update:

$155.3 million! NY Times story here.

-- FuzzyDave

Podcast: Why So Gooch?

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:01:00 GMT

The Gang feverishly anticipate this weekend's release of The Dark Knight, a movie so hyped we suspect it contains Unicorn Farts and Angel Kisses. We also riff on:

Could Batman Exist in the Real World?;
Emmy NomNomNoms & Predictions;
Good Movie/Bad Movie;
TheQuarterMexican has Bad Feelings;
Stars' Real Names Part Deux;
Distressing News from Middle Earth;
Olympics Controversy;
And much much more!

Podcast: Swallow The Gravy, Edith Wharton!

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:38:00 GMT

We return from our 4th of July Hiatus with Special Guest Star, Elly, filling in for TheQuarterMexican -- and boy do we have a lot to talk about:

Wall-E: Greatest Animated Film Ever?
Hellboy 2
Is Eddie Murphy Hollywood's biggest Douche?
The Pungent Cheezy Goodness that is Sci-Fi Channel Movies
We Can't Wait For Dark Knight
Elly's "Switch List"
TV News: Larry David, New Gong Show, Always Sunny Funny in Philadelphia/Boldy Going Nowhere
Tropic Thunder Spoilers
Inglorious Basterds
Middle Earth News
Good Movie/Bad Movie
Stars' Real Names
We Have A Bad Feeling About Sherlock Holmes
Elly Loves Her Some Vampires...and eggs

Box office predictions:

Hellboy 2:
SnarfJizzle: $35 million
FuzzyDave: $42 million
Elly: $50 million

Dark Knight
SnarfJizzle: $69 million
FuzzyDave: $62 million
Elly: $63.74 million

And for those who have never experienced The Sweetness that was Gene Gene The Dancin' Machine:

Back on the market!

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:08:00 GMT

Justin Long and Drew Barrymore have amicably called it quits. Drew's rep confirmed it to People magazine. But cheer up, Justin... you'll bounce back in no time. You didn't really want that Tom Green tainted gal anyway. You can do better. But I got dibs on Megan Fox.

Dark Knight: The First 5 Minutes

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:35:00 GMT

Enjoy it while you can:

Chainsaw Maid: Best Zombie Movie EVER.

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:33:00 GMT

Wall-E Easter Eggs

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:04:00 GMT

"Wall-E" -- like all Pixar movies -- is loaded with easter eggs. The most prominent is the Pizza Planet delivery truck, which has been in every Pixar movie since "Toy Story."

For a complete-ish list of all the "Wall-E" easter eggs, check out the article in Slashfilm. -- FuzzyDave

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Trailer

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:09:00 GMT

Dr. Horrible's page

Diablo III Gameplay Video!

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:36:00 GMT

Blizzard just announced this new title at their Worldwide Invitational in Paris. And holy crap on a cracker does this game look sweet.
I'm not gonna ruin any of it for you, except to say 3 words: Wall o' Zombies.

Here's the cinematic trailer:

For more, check out the Diablo III site.

Fuzzy's Fave Li'l Droids

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:51:00 GMT

In today's podcast I mentioned my two favorite wee droids. The first was that li'l bot from Star Wars. Couldn't remember its name, but thanks to GIS:

The Gonk Droid

The second was from Silent Running, Hewey & Dewey:

-- Posted by FuzzyDave

Podcast: Bean Curd Made By Pock-Marked Woman

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:17:00 GMT

FuzzyDave, The QuarterMexican and Snarf Jizzle (formerly known as Young, Gifted & Black) return for another pink and moist episode, wherein they gab about such diverse topics as Wall-E; Chinese Food; Robots; Neil Patrick Harris; Hong Kong swimteam vixens and their chainsaws; George Carlin; Mini-Me's Sex Tape; TV News; Good Movie/Bad Movie and much, much more!

Seymour

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:32:00 GMT

As discussed on last week's podcast, EA released a trial version of their Spore Creature Creator. This is my first attempt at creating a lifeform (with the exception of the supermold growing in my refrigerator). I shall call him... Seymour.
âQM

Update: Ice on Mars!

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:09:00 GMT

From Wired:

There is water ice on Mars within reach of the Mars Phoenix Lander, NASA scientists announced Thursday.

Photographic evidence settles the debate over the nature of the white material seen in photographs sent back by the craft. As seen in lower left of this image, chunks of the ice sublimed (changed directly from solid to gas) over the course of four days, after the lander's digging exposed them.

"It must be ice," said the Phoenix Lander's lead investigator, Peter Smith. "These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it's ice."

Podcast: Like an Egg Fresh From Lohan's Omelette Factory

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

In this week's episode:

We pay tribute to the late, great Stan Winston
Cocaine on Mars?
We have a Bad Feeling about George Lucas on Broadway
AFI's Top 10 Fantasy Films
Middle Earth News
Spore
Top Gear Returns
Girls With Guy Names Are Effin' Hot!
The Legend of Eric The Eel and Snarf's Olympic Memory
Good Movie/Bad Movie
Love Guru & Get Smart
Set phasers on Gay

This episode has been approved by Snarf Prophet

Not Safe For Work

Hispanic Panic and The Eurotrash Handy Horde

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:32:00 GMT

Tanned, firm, and yes, waxed, we return for another cosmopolitan episode as FuzzyDave, SnarfJizzle and TheQuarterMexican explore their multicultural thingies while yappin' about:

The Incredible Hulk getting hacked
Our Worldly fans
Aieee! Smurfs!!
Patrick Swayze and the Golden Glow of SnarfJizzle's Poetry Nook
George Lucas' daughter, Amanda will kick your ass
Wallace & Gromit News!
Good Movie/Bad Movie
The iphone 3G is teh awesome
Hiro gets a movie
Boobies!
Tiffany wrassles
Scottish Cuisine
No Olympics on TV?
Victoria's Secret Farm League

Podcast 6 June: Strangers With Petrol

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:05:00 GMT

It's another jam-packed episode filled with snakki-cake goodness and ... Hitler. Some of the topics:

Barack Obama and the impending Apocalypse
The Strangers and the similarity with the Manson killings
Wall-E, Zohan, cartoon pee-boners and the coolness of Pixar vs the uber-commerciality of Dreamworks Animation
Incest in Who-ville
Sequelitis/Transformers/Terminator
Life On Mars/Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes
Middle Earth News
Good Movie/Bad Movie
Heat Vision & Jack
Olympics 2008

Oh, and so you don't hafta search YouTube, here's the entire pilot to "Heatvision & Jack":

Correction:FuzzyDave erroneously said that Colm Meaney was Scottish. He is, in fact, Irish. He blames this on the mental fart that all engineering wonks on The Enterprise must be Scottish. He regrets the error.

But where's the CD slot?

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 03:44:00 GMT

Japanese man Katsuya Matsumura hand-built this case for his PC. I have as much of an infatuation with anime girls as the next geek, but I think this is taking it a tad too far.
We geeks have made tremendous strides in being accepted by the mainstream, and now this guy comes along and messes it all up. We have fought hard against the stereotypes (dateless, no social life, live in mom's basement), and in one fell swoop, Kat knocks it all down, like Gojira to Tokyo.
He didn't even give it a sexy name like Kuniko-taka or something. He named her ERN006. sigh...
All the detailed pics (with squibbly japanese) from ERN006's construction can be found here: http://sae.cside.com/sae/kat/pc/ern006/ern006.htm.
Oh, and she's for sale!!
â QM

Merry Birthday, Justin Long!

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:07:00 GMT

Our thing-de-resistance, Justin Long, celebrates his 30th birthday today. On this most holy of days, we here at Geek Droppings encourage you to call in sick to work, put in your copy of Herbie: Fully Loaded and dance around a bonfire wearing only your Alvin & the Chipmunks underpants. Leave your birthday wishes for our Fearless Leader in the comments below.

â QM

Podcast 530 - Is That A Lirpa In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Here For The Cake?

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:02:00 GMT

In perhaps the Trekkiest episode we'll ever do, we pay tribute to Star Trek director Joseph Pevney, who recently died at age 96; Composer of the original Star Trek theme, Alexander Courage, who also passed away recently; the legacy of Trek; and the brouhaha over an upcoming episode of Ace of Cakes featuring a Trek cake that has Trekkies setting their phasers on "Dork."

WB Plans 3 Watchmen DVDs

Mon, 26 May 2008 23:43:00 GMT

The New York Times reported that Warner Brothers is planning three DVD releases connected with the March 2009 release of "The Watchmen."

The first DVD, "Tales of the Black Freighter," based on a subplot in the graphic novel, will be released 5 days after the theatrical release of "The Watchmen."

The second DVD release will come a few months later with the release of the theatrical film's disc.

The third DVD will be the two films spliced together to make one huge mega-movie.

-- FuzzyDave

The Phoenix Has Landed

Mon, 26 May 2008 13:37:00 GMT

The Mars Phoenix probe touched down on the Northern Polar surface of Mars a few hours ago.

The probe (heh. probe) has a Twitter account and you can get up-to-the-minute updates and photos as NASA's search for water -- and possible life -- on Mars progresses. --FuzzyDave

Viral Video Fever... Catch It!

Sun, 25 May 2008 21:37:00 GMT

Here's Weezer's new music video for their single "Pork and Beans." It features tons (would you say, "a plethora?") of folks famous for their viral videos. You got your Chocolate Rains, the Leave-Britney-Alone Guy, the Diet Coke/Mentos guys, Dramatic Chipmunk, Miss South Carolina and even, God help us, Kevin Federline. I like it. The song is damn catchy and it must've been a helluva feat to get all these guys together in one place like that. If you have a love of internet celebrities, this is the video for you!

Heppi Birfdai, Gandalf!

Sun, 25 May 2008 15:49:00 GMT

Ian McKellen turns 69 today. (heh.... 69)

Other geeky birthdays: Cillian "Scarecrow" Murphy(32) and Frank "Yoda" Oz (64).

In other Tolkien-related news, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro held a huge-ass webchat yesterday and answered a bajillion questions concerning "The Hobbit." Some highlights:

Both films (The Hobbit and the LOTR "prequel") will be shot back-to-back in 2010, with the first arriving December, 2011 and the second in December, 2012. As far as rating goes, they're shooting for "an intense PG-13."
They will not begin casting until the scripts are written, but said Ian McKellan will "absolutely" return as Gandalf and Ron Perlman will return; most likely not as the voice of Smaug.
Howard Shore will score the films.
They're currently working on a Blu-ray version of all three Lord of the Rings films, but it won't be out this year.

-- FuzzyDave

Chicken Butt Scramble

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:33:00 GMT

Our Heroes predict the 5-day box office of "Indy 4: The Temple of Meh;" another installment of Good Movie/Bad Movie lands Dame Judi Dench the role of a lifetime; a new reality show based in Japan could be the coolest show of the summer -- or a steaming pile of Tunch. Also: Al Gort, bullwhips, Stump Girls and other High Weirdness somehow find their way into the conversation.

What's New, Pussy?

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:44:00 GMT

The boys get a visit from Bunny, a sexpert who somehow pursuades Snarf Jizzle to say the P-word. Another installment of Good Movie/Bad Movie; the Name the Podcast Contest gets an extension (heh. extension); and The QuarterMexican reveals not only a childhood trauma, but also his 2-Degrees of Justin Longitude. Plus a bunch of other stuff happens.

Let's Be Positive

Fri, 9 May 2008 16:56:00 GMT

FuzzyDave attempts being Mr. Positive for an entire episode.
The Gang hold a contest (with Valuable Prizes!) for YOU, our Dear Friends, to name the podcast.
Another Good Movie/Bad Movie segment goes terrible weird; we do some spelunking in Scarlett Johansson's Magical Vagina ... and other stuff happens.

The Scent of A Hero

Thu, 1 May 2008 18:23:00 GMT

FuzzyDave, Snarf Jizzle & TheQuarterMexican discuss finding The Real Batcave, Heston Hugs, Captain America, Iron Man, GTA IV and Fluffy Justice (to name a few). We also do another installment of Good Movie/Bad Movie and Snarf Jizzle's worldview goes all higgledy-piggledy when we tell him about Furries.