Clive Barker’s Imagica is more than the world; it’s five. Four of them have reconciled with each other, and one – ours, the Earth – is removed from the rest. But reconciliation may be upon us.
Declassify >NASCAR needs new gas in the tank beyond Dale Jr
Everything’s coming up Earnhardt, and for Dale Jr, that’s great. For NASCAR, it may be a different story.
Dale Earnhardt Jr, AKA Dale Jr, is featured heavily in what was Amazon Prime’s summer coverage of races in June. He was prominent in advertisements and as a featured commentator for those races. He’s also featured in a new IHOP commercial. And a new Amazon Prime docu-series about his Dad, recently released to acclaim.
Declassify >Earl Weaver and the evolution of baseball take the field in The Last Manager
It has been five years since I read and posted about Earl Weaver’s autobiography It’s What You Learn After You Know It All That Counts. Since then, a new Earl Weaver biography has been published by John W. Miller, The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball.
This book doesn’t just tell the story of Earl Weaver. It puts Earl Weaver in the context of what baseball has become and how we arrived at it before the rest of the league.
Declassify >The Dying Art of the Animation Cel
I can’t recall if I’ve discussed them here before, but I’m the proud owner of a few animation cels in my personal art collection. They’re pieces of a whole and reflections of the things I loved as a kid. Their existence on my walls grows even more special with each year as cels are part of a dying art.
Cel is short for celluloid, which is the transparent sheet on which the “animated” drawings were once painted or drawn on.
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Michael Caine does his best spy work as author of fast-paced Deadly Game
Screen icon, two-time Academy Award winner, and autobiographer Sir Michael Caine can now add “novelist” to his many titles. His debut endeavor Deadly Game is a thriller with the same grit, realism, and character shared by many of his famous characters.
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