Day: June 10, 2017

ADAM WEST DEAD AT 88

Adam West, the ardent actor who managed to keep his tongue in cheek while wearing the iconic cowl of the Caped Crusader on the classic 1960s series Batman, has died. He was 88.

West, who was at the pinnacle of pop culture after Batman debuted in January 1966, only to see his career fall victim to typecasting after the ABC show flamed out, died Friday night in Los Angeles after a short battle with leukemia, a family spokesperson said.

West died peacefully surrounded by his family and is survived by his wife Marcelle, six children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

A star who will be greatly missed on the planet earth.

Not for the faint of heart or the low in fiber

Surgeons removed 30 inches of a man’s large intestine after diagnosing him with a rare condition involving a building-up of constipation throughout his life.

The unnamed male patient, 22, is believed to have been born with the congenital condition known as Hirschsprung’s disease – also known as “HD”.

It means his stool cannot pass because of a lack of nerves in some muscles inside his colon.

As a result, the man’s abdomen began to bulge at a very young age – to the point where people thought he appeared heavily pregnant.

Tom Cruise: Tomb raider

THE MUMMY is not connected well with audiences..
But WONDER WOMAN continues strong ..

Tom Cruise’s latest movie, Universal’s The Mummy is tanking stateside this weekend in second place with an estimated $30.9M behind Warner Bros/DC’s Wonder Woman which will own the top spot for a second weekend in a row with $54.3M, -47% and a running cumulative of $202.1M by Sunday.

The movie has not been received well, either–by critics or regular viewers.. THE MUMMY is currently being hit with an 18% rotten rate on ROTTEN TOMATOES..

David Sims from the ATLANTIC: As the beginning of an ongoing series, it’s an utter bore, one with only the faintest grasp of what made Universal’s monster pictures so iconic all those decades ago…

Sarah Fetters from Movie Freak: Let’s not mince words. As a kickoff to a proposed new series of films, dubbed the “Dark Universe”… The Mummy is a very bad movie.

And even a POSITIVE review Beliefnet is confused: A plane crash scene is viscerally exciting, and sets up the movie’s funniest line later on. But it cannot make its mind up whether it wants to be adventure, horror, or camp.