Two Preteens Perform With Tenacious D

Jack Black turned his "The School of Rock" role into reality when he plucked two preteen musicians from obscurity and asked them to perform with his rock band. Black played a teacher who turns his class into a rock band in the 2003 comedy, directed by Richard Linklater.

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Writer Mike White, director Richard Linklater and star Jack Black are all attached. . . . Variety says the film would involve Finn taking a group of students on a summer cross-country trip to various musically significant locations.

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A Scanner Darkly is adapted from a novel by Philip K Dick, science fiction's specialist in ontological anxiety.

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Say what you will about the French; they've got the whole food thing down.

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Richard Linklater tackles fast food

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)

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Stoned babble and decomposing reality, A Scanner Darkly—Richard Linklater's animated version of the 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick—is the most literal of Dick adaptations and also, in a perverse way, the most literary.

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A fascinating article on the still upcoming A Scanner Darkly, and the difficulties involved with how they are animating the live actors.

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