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    Talking Scifiwire News (10/18/2004) - DnD Turns 30, Shatner sings,

    Scifiwire News - (10/18/2004)

    Dungeons and Dragons turns 30
    William Shatner to record album

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    Dungeons and Dragons turns 30

    Dungeons & Dragons players gathered in game stores around the country over the weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the grandfather of fantasy role-playing games, the Associated Press reported. About 25,000 fans in 1,200 stores celebrated the anniversary on Oct. 16, Charles Ryan, brand manager for role-playing games at Wizards of the Coast, told the AP. Wizards, based in Renton, Wash., owns Dungeons & Dragons.

    In 1974, 1,000 brown-and-white boxes filled with pamphlets for Fantastic Medieval Wargames were distributed by a couple of guys who liked war role-playing and decided to set a game in the Middle Ages but with monsters and fantastic heroes, the AP reported. Dungeons & Dragons went on to become one of the best-selling games of all time, inspiring books, movies, puzzles and a Saturday-morning cartoon show. The game peaked in the 1980s, but some 4 million people play D&D regularly, the AP reported.
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    William Shatner to record album

    Original Star Trek star William Shatner, who was ridiculed for his 1968 spoken-word album, will release a new 11-song CD of music this month, the Associated Press reported. Timed for Halloween, Shatner told the wire service that the release is no trick. "It's a treat for me," Shatner, 73, said by telephone from Los Angeles, where he was taping an episode of Boston Legal, his latest TV show. "I hope nobody turns a trick on it."

    The new album, Has Been, features Shatner's choppy words set to music that he co-wrote and performs with Ben Folds, who produced and arranged the new album. Musicians Joe Jackson, Aimee Mann, Henry Rollins and Brad Paisley also make appearances. The songs vary from pianos to soul, from gospel to cowboy, and Shatner's lyrics explore his fear of aging, the death of a loved one, reconnecting with estranged children and the fickleness of fame, the AP reported.

    Shatner's 1968 album The Transformed Man was a bizarre attempt to meld contemporary pop songs like Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds with excerpts from classic literature like Hamlet, the AP reported.
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    And some other things....

    The OneRing.net Web site is asking Lord of the Rings fans to commemorate the Oct. 21 50th anniversary of the first U.S. publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece by showing up in costume at the studios of the Today show in New York.

    The American Film Institute will award Star Wars creator George Lucas its 33rd lifetime achievement award, Variety reported. Lucas will receive the award at the AFI's annual June dinner at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Calif.

    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow star Angelina Jolie has been named the "sexiest woman alive" in the latest edition of Esquire magazine. Jolie, who plays one-eyed aviatrix Franky Cook, was the top pick of the magazine's editors and mostly male readers to grace the cover of Esquire's annual "Women We Love" issue, the Reuters news service reported.

    Residents of Metropolis, Ill., gathered in Superman Square Oct. 13 to honor late Superman star Christopher Reeve in a candlelight vigil before a black statue of the Man of Steel, the Associated Press reported. Residents also made donations to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation and signed an oversized condolence card for the Reeve family.
    Last edited by Granite; 10-18-2004 at 08:38 PM.
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