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In “Magic Knight Rayearth”, three Japanese high school girls are transported to the fantasy realm of Cephiro on a mission to save it and rescue Princess Emeraude from the grasp of the evil High Priest Zagato.
Except its not that easy, nor is it that cut-and-dried. Zagato has a host of followers to attack and divert the three girls on their mission to gain the power they need to complete their task; in addition, there’s another story behind the one before them, one that will result in pain and suffering for all involved.
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It goes around and around and around, like a hypnotic spiral. Its the hula hoop, the 50+ year old children’s toy that is now the latest craze. And one person now has a hypnotically-iinspired name for her product to catch that market.
I found out about this bit of hypnotic word-play through an article in Forbes online. Its the newest fitness craze, weighted hula hoops, and was the idea of Gabriella Redding, CEO of Hoopnotica. According to her, she lost 55 lbs using a weighted hula hoop and started her own company seven years to market them. Now, with the increased celebrity factor of hula hoops (everyone from Michelle Obama and Beyonce to Ellen Degeneres and Liv Tyler are hula hooping) plus the increased attention to fitness, her business has broken the $1 million sales mark. And she has plans to ride the current popularity wave into the mass markets as well as planning to survive the expected change when the celebrities shift their attention and the hula hoop loses its novelty.
Commentary: You find plays on the word ‘hypnotic’ in the strangest places, from the names of cosmetics and perfumes to imagery in advertisements but this one is one of the strangest yet possibly (because of the description at the start of this post) one of the most appropriate.
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Background: When I graduated from junior high school to high school, I continued to be a student volunteer in the library. Again, I would be disappointed (but not surprised) that the school library did not have any books on hypnosis. (As opposed to the county library, where even sometimes the mobile library van that would come around the neighborhood every Friday during the summer would have one or two.) However, I was surprised to discover, at the very end of the story collection shelves, a hardcover copy of “Favorite Stories of Hypnotism” (1965) edited by Don Ward. The black cover with its shadowy female face, concentric circles radiating out from her left eye, is just so stereotypical but to my mind back then, so demonstrative of hypnosis that, of course, I had to check it out. I was not disappointed in what I found, and even today, many of the stories are still worthwhile, though dated.
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According to an interview in Salon, “Rowdy” Roddie Piper has been approached by producers seeking to make a remake of “They Live”.
There’s been talk about a remake of “They Live.” Have the potential producers been in touch with you?
Yep. We’re going to have lunch after this trip to Denver.
“They Live” worked so well because of the underlying satirical political message: one wonders if the same message would be repeated?
“The Two Ronnies” was a British comedy team of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. Their BBC program of the same name involved a variety of different comedy modes, including sketches, monologues, serials and the show closer, a parody of news programs. Short jokes (Ronnie Corbet was significantly shorter than his partner) were also a stock component of their repertoire.
Ronnie B: And now a sketch about an enormous embarrassment at a small, intimate party. Ronnie Corbett will play the small, intimate party.
Ronnie C: And Ronnie Barker will play the enormous embarrassment.
Their most impressive production was “The Picnic”, a half-hour show, the day in the life of a minor noble family and their servants, which had no dialog just sight and sound gags. The series is available in DVD only in Region 2 PAL formats.
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