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Gone Too Soon: Max Headroom

19 October 2009 12:04 PM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

The name "Max Headroom" comes from the last thing TV reporter Edison Carter saw before he was knocked out and hacker extraordinaire Bryce Lynch dumped his memories into a computer: a sign reading "Max. Headroom: 2.3 meters" as a warning for low clearance. The program came alive and an '80s icon was born. Most people today remember Max Headroom for his pervasive commercial association with New Coke.

Yet it was in the Max Headroom series that he was truly groundbreaking. The show was developed from a UK telefilm: Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future. And that film was only created to give back-story to a talking head they wanted to use in a music video show.

Unfortunately, the popularity of this show and the character lasted about as long as New Coke. And for those of you who have no idea what New Coke is ... exactly!

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- Jason Hughes

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Daryl Hall & John Oates Interview, Part 2: Daryl Hall and the "War" with his Generation

6 October 2009 3:08 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

"Two-headed monster" is what Daryl Hall and John Oates refer to themselves as, because it's everything they're not. Arguably the biggest music duo of all time have said they're able to coexist and churn out hits and perform because essentially -- they don't drive each other crazy and let each other do their own thing. Case in point last year alone -- Oates released a solo album while Hall continued his highly successful web series "Live From Daryl's House" (think Jon Favreau's "Dinner with Friends" for the music crowd.) Still, the two found time to tour together as they always do. Arguably, the duo are just as renowned today as they were in the 1970s and Max Headroom decades. There's no better example of this statement than the recent usage of their 1981 hit "You Make My Dreams Come True"... »

- Jon Chattman

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Fantastic Fest 09: Uwe Boll on the Rampage!

5 October 2009 9:27 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Uwe Boll is pissed. His new film Rampage, starring Brendan Fletcher as a joyfully disenfranchised 20something named Bill who goes on a citywide killing spree, didn’t win anything at Fantastic Fest this year. Everyone kept telling him how much they enjoyed the film, but it didn’t even crack the top five once the Audience Awards were in (the winner was Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar A Town Called Panic).

A byproduct of the slacker generation, Fletcher’s Bill is 23 but still lives at home, to the disappointment of his mother and father (the latter played by Max Headroom himself, Matt Frewer), who just wish he’d show a little enthusiasm and maybe finally apply to community college. Bill has other plans, however, meeting up with friend Evan (who seems to be cut from the same lackadaisical cloth as our lead loser) to collect suspicious packages that he’s »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Drew Tinnin)

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TV Review: Eureka 3.17 & 3.18

19 September 2009 7:47 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Eureka, SyFy, Airs Friday 9/8c Episode: “Have an Ice Day” (Season Three, Episode 17) Synopsis: With Allison on maternity leave (and making only a single appearance on a laptop screen), Tess is in charge of Global Dynamics. On her first day as the big cheese, she faces a chilling situation when a giant ice core in the basement starts to freeze everything and everyone around it. Sheriff Carter helps discover what is causing this rogue ice problem while Deputy Lupo is distracted by her boyfriend being aloof and, shall we say, giving her the cold shoulder. Review: I am torn. I like both Allison Blake and Tess Fontana. Both are fine-looking women, and they are great characters. I couldn’t tell you who I’d prefer to carry the baton for Global Dynamics into season four (though I think I am leaning a bit towards Allison, I suppose). The fact that Sheriff Carter has solidified his non-platonic relationship »

- Kevin Carr

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Interview: Matt Frewer on 'Eureka', 'Alice' and Acting to the Max

17 September 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Canadian actor Matt Frewer is probably best known for portraying that icon of 1980s computer animation and music videos, Max Headroom. Headroom's jerks and stutters are but a small sample of this talented and versatile actor's work, though.

On the big screen Frewer's credits go back to Franc Roddam's The Lords of Discipline (1983) and include such diverse material as Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Frankie and Alice (with Halle Barry), Uwe Boll's Darfur and two films for director Zack Snyder: Dawn of the Dead and Watchmen.

Frewer has also portrayed Sherlock Holmes in several television movies and appeared in a long list of TV series. He was a regular on Doctor, Doctor, CBC’s Intelligence and Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (for which he also wrote a script). He has lent his distinctive voice to characters in animated adventures of The Incredible Hulk, »

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