Speaking of the sixties, with all the recent James Bond hoopla, popslant  has been reviewing the older James Bond flicks. As we progressed to the sixth movie of the series, we made an amazing discovery. It is our contention that George Lazenby, the one-time james Bond in 1969's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," is in reality Graham Kerr, TV's "Galloping Gourmet."

The resemblance is unmistakable - the lanky frame, the square side-burns, the Australian accent. Who knew? Anyone who was around in 1969 remembers that The Galloping Gourmet was a big hit with the ladies - something we could never quite figure out. Well, now we know why! How could any red blooded, pointy glasses wearing sixties lassie resist a secret agent who can do the job in the bedroom and the kitchen!

What a clever ruse! Doing double duty as the premiere sixties secret agent and the square bad joke telling TV icon is masterful stroke of genius by Kerr.

Of course, we know that's not really the case, but it does explain a lot about the attraction ladies had for the square Kerr. When we see the Bond mania that exists whenever a new Bond movie debuts, we can understand how a then unknown TV chef could catapult to stardom so quickly - because he looks just like the James Bond of that year!

popslant  now predicts a huge resurgence in Mad magazine now that the new Bond movie is out... especially when Daniel Craig is so obviously in reality Mad magazine cover icon
Alfred E. Neuman...

Sacha Baron Cohen is back, and he's fooling people again. His latest victim is a former Mossad agent who was duped by Cohen's character Bruno, a fictional German rock star.

In an interview with former Israeli Defense Forces officer Yossi Alpher, Cohen made light of the the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and feigned confusion over the differences between Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization, and humous, the tasty chickpea spread. Another particularly amusing exchange was when Cohen stated that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict was not so bas as the conflict between Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston. It slowly dawned on Alpher that perhaps something less than serious was going on.

popslant  is happy to see Cohen return to his roots and back in fine interviewing form. Borat had its funny moments, but was mostly insipid. Let's hope this new film production is better.

We love Photoshopped images, and one of the best places to see some good Photoshops is at Pixeloo.Blogpsot.com. Pixeloo has some great "Untooned" cartoon characters featuring some great work. The creepiest is the realistic version of Homer Simpson, but we were drawn to the Jessica Rabbit image for some reason...

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Springtime is here, Iron Man is in the theaters, but I'm already looking ahead to... Christmas? That's because that's when the Frank Miller version of the The Spirit hits theaters, and it is quite an anticipatory thing indeed.

For those of you who may not be familiar with The Spirit, let me just say that it was one of the most cerebral newspaper comic of its time. Created in 1940 by Will Eisner as the lead feature of a comic book insert to Sunday newspapers, the stories evolved from crime-fighter vs. criminal plot-lines to include such diverse themes as a momentary stoppage of time (A Time-Stop!), the tense environment of quiet sounds or the absence thereof (Quiet!) or detailed character studies of the psychosis of a criminal (The Meanest Man In The World). The artwork was executed in a dark and moody film-noir scheme uncommon in Sunday newspapers comics of the time and which suited the story-lines well.

popslant  believes that taking this character and adding the current film-noir innovation of Frank Miller should result in one of the best film releases of 2008.

Pop Culture is speeding at us at virtually all times! Cable, WiFi, iPods, iPhones, Digital HDTV, DSL and even dial-up, the slow gray hair in the fast lane! popslant  is here to wade through some of the muck and mire of this culture to find choice nuggets worthy of consideration. Reviews, previews, old views and new views are to be included in a fine bill of fare from popslant !