In the two episodes with David Tennant - "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" - Garfield played Frank, a young ragamuffin who joins up with the Doctor and Martha Jones - the then current Companion - before getting captured by evil Daleks in the Cult of Skaro, who hope to evolve the human race into Dalek human hybrids or something. Frank was left to live in Hooverville in poverty by the Doctor after having his life horribly ruined, so just another typical day for a guest star on Doctor Who.-----
Here's a cover shot and plot summary from J.K. Rowling's upcoming post-Harry Potter novel out Sept. 27:
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.-----
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations?
A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J. K. Rowling’s first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.
I really enjoyed Mark Evanier's remembrance of Andy Griffith, who passed away earlier this week. You need to read the whole piece, but here's a nugget:
But of course you watched The Andy Griffith Show. Everyone did and many still do. Its timelessness is amazing and its popularity endures, long exceeding shows that got higher ratings back when it was in first run. There's something so primal and warm about that series that new generations latch onto it and old ones won't let it go. No one can quite explain it but whatever it is, it came from Andy Griffith. He was the core. He was the heart of that show and that's what it still runs on: Heart.-----
Dame Diana Rigg and her daugher, actress Rachael Stirling will appear in an upcoming episode of "Doctor Who."
...details are being kept to a minimum, but Rigg and Stirling will play a mother and daughter on-screen and their characters are said to share a "dark secret." Described as "funny and original" by Stirling, the script for the episode arrives from Mark Gatiss who, in addition to appearing as an actor in two episodes, wrote "The Unquiet Dead," "The Idiot's Lantern," "Victory of the Daleks" and "Night Terrors."-----
The seventh season of modern "Doctor Who" will begin this fall and is slated to the feature the final episodes with Karen Gillian and Arthur Darvill as Amy and Rory with Coleman said to debut in the 2012 Christmas special.
Nick Caputo takes a look at Steve Ditko's Gwen Stacy and ponders what the artist/plotter might have had in mind for Spider-Man's love interest had he continued to work on the comics series.
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