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Peter Falk in his home art studio.

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Jim Steranko

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Ice-T and Doug Jones as Kangaroo Men in "Tank Girl" (1995). At this point, Doug Jones was mainly known for his time as Mac Tonight.

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Happy Birthday to Sybil Danning! Star of "The Howling," "Battle Beyond the Stars," "Hercules," "Phantom Empire," and a few women in prison movies.

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Friends: the Ruritanian Resistance needs our help. Please share this status. Just place the flag of Ruritania in your feed to raise awareness.

With assistance from top international NGOs, we can, must, and will free the Prisoner of Zenda.

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"Peach Boy 2" (1989), also called Magic of Steel, was one of the most wildly successful movies in the late 80s trend in Taiwan and Hong Kong of fantasy movies aimed at children (which also included entries like "Ginseng Boy" and "Magic Crystal").

Peach Boy, a magic child born in a peach who is one part Peter Pan, another part Bart Simpson, a third part Samurai, and a fourth part Superman, discovers a sorcerer is killing a thousand kids to keep his body from decaying, and has to stop him.

Peach Boy was, like Bart Simpson, played by an adult woman who sounded and looked like a boy.

Peach Boy was a huge phenomenon, despite the weirdness and low budget of the whole thing. Many very young Chinese kids remember being shocked when they found out their hero Peach Boy was actually....played by a girl! Hsiao Lao Lin.

Also known as "Magic of Steel," it is one of the few films to have a typo in the opening title.

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Despite the fact that she was born in 1925, Lost in Space and Lassie mom June Lockhart was a fan of rock music, and frequently visited rock music clubs with her TV daughters Angela Cartwright and Marta Kristen, like Los Angeles's Whiskey a Go Go.

In the 1970s and 80s, she was such a fan that she carried a photograph of David Bowie in her wallet.

I just went to look up when she died, and the answer is...she didn't. June Lockhart is alive and well right now, and is known to do voices for video games, including one that came out in 2021. She is the only actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood to still be with us and still working.

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Rudolph Sieber Lonati, 1974

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Giant Walrus (Walrus giganticus) from "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" (1977).