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Greenham Common: 'Scheduled Ancient Monument'.

Despite being no longer in use, the GAMA cruise missile silos at Greenham Common are still surrounded by three rings of steel fencing. Behind them the 'Scheduled Ancient Monument' still looks pretty forbidding though. Curious to know what plans English Heritage have for the site. I'm particularly looking forward to the 'Cold War Experience' (or some such enterprise), and the chance to part with a tenner for a look inside. Currently, however, the Greenham Common trust owns the area of the original base and have sensibly returned most of it to heathland and installed a memorial to the 1980's women's peace campaign. The trust also encouraged small businesses to settle in the old 'domestic' section of the site.

It’s A SpongeBob Christmas! on Nickelodeon

MOVIE REVIEW It’s A SpongeBob Christmas! Network: Nickelodeon Original Air Date: December, 2012 *Said to be inspired by the classic Rankin/Bass Christmas Cartoons! CAST: Tom Kenny ... SpongeBob John Goodman ... Santa Claus PLOT: It’s A SpongeBob Christmas! - Nickelodeon’s first full-length stop-motion animated special is inspired by the classic Rankin/Bass (Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town) specials, and the popular SpongeBob song released in 2009, “Don’t Be a Jerk, It’s Christmas,” written by Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob) and Andy Paley. In “It’s A SpongeBob Christmas!,” Plankton vows to get his Christmas wish – the Krabby Patty formula – by turning everyone in Bikini Bottom bad by feeding them his special jerktonium-laced fruitcake. Movie Review: Coming... See or Skip: Coming... -----------------------

Nickelodeon Movie Musical - Rags

MOVIE REVIEW Rags Network: Nickelodeon Original Air Date: ? CAST: Max Schneider ... Charlie Prince KeKe Palmer ... Kadee Worth PLOT: Rags, a music-infused modern-day fairy tale debuting this spring. The two-hour original TV movie centers on Charlie Prince (Max Schneider), an orphan living with his acerbic and unloving stepfather and spoiled stepbrothers, whose dream of being a singer might come true once he meets pop star Kadee Worth (KeKe Palmer). Movie Review: Coming... See or Skip: Coming... ---------------------

Kim Kardashian

Jingle & Bell - Hallmark Channel Christmas Cartoon

MOVIE REVIEW Jingle & Bell Network: Hallmark Channel Original Air Date: Christmas 2012 *This follows the original Jingle the Husky Pup Christmas Cartoon - Jingle all the Way. Click here for details. CAST: Voices ? PLOT: “Jingle & Bell” is the second story and animated special to star one of Hallmark’s most lovable characters, Jingle the Husky Pup™. In “Jingle & Bell,” Jingle the Husky Pup and his buddy Andrew meet some new friends. A girl Andrew’s age, Sofia, and her Husky pup, Bell, have moved from sunny Palm City to Pineville weeks before Christmas. With no friends yet and not knowing what to expect, Sofia and Bell’s world is upside down and it looks like it might be the worst Christmas ever. But with a little help from Jingle and Andrew, Sofia and Bell will soon discover that Christmas joy isn’t about where you are -- it’s about who you are with! “Jingle & Bell” is a Bent Image Lab Production. Movie Review: Coming... See or Skip: Coming... -----------------------

Gather around the Table for A Walton Easter

The Hallmark Channel is premiering A Walton Easter for the first time on their Network. The show will air twice on Saturday evening, March 31st, 2012. They will also air A Decade of The Waltons - a special flashback of videos from The Waltons TV series. Video Promo - A Walton Easter : A Walton Easter is available on DVD as part of The Waltons 6 Reunion Movies, which includes: A Wedding on Walton's Mountain Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion A Walton Wedding A Walton Easter

Hal Ambro

I never met Hal Ambro, but I sure know his work, and I ilke it a lot. He started to work for Disney in 1946. Even though he never reached the status of supervising animator there, his animation can often be found in sequences that were lead by such animators like Ollie Johnston (the opening section of Johnny Appleseed) and Milt Kahl (Ambro animated almost half of the footage of The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella). I am quoting John Canemaker from his book "The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy" from 1977: Hal Ambro, in his early sixties, stops by the studio to pick up and deliver some Babette scenes. Ambro, a gentle Santa Claus look-alike, started at Disney and remained there until 1966. He decided to free-lance because "there is only so much room at the top of the ladder at Disney", and he wasn't going to reach those rarefied heights occupied by a select corps of Disney animators. "I've had a lot of training in the human area in Disney films. Humans are m...