Monday, March 12, 2012

I am in love with this little guy.  Go see John Carter and find out why.  I will call him Bruno.
It will also make you love Lake Powell just a little bit more.  Its a little bit of Shrek I, and III meets Princess Bride meets Jar Jar Binks.  But when you think that Edgar Rice Burrows is the father of  Sci Fi  --  and that this was penned 100 years ago  -- it is truly the beginning.  Sadly, attendance needs to pick up since it was #2 at the box office for opening weekend.  

"A Princess of Mars" was originally published as "Under the Moons of Mars" by Norman Bean (Edgar Rice Burroughs' pseudonym) in The All-Story (six pulp magazine issues February - July, 1912). Burroughs was originally afraid that he might be ridiculed for writing such a tale, so he decided to use a pen name. The pseudonym was supposed to be a pun "Normal Bean" (as in "I'm a normal being") to reassure people, but the man who typeset the text thought it was a mistake, so he changed it to "Norman". However, Burroughs' fears turned out to be unfounded: the story and its sequels, collectively known as the "Barsoom series", were almost as popular (and arguably more influential) as those of his most famous creation, Tarzan. - sourced from IMDB.com  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401729/trivia?tab=tr&item=tr0738847

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