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‘Star Wars’ Spotlight: Salacious Crumb

Posted by | Apr 23, 2013 | |

By Ryan Rigley While no light has been shed on the actual plot of “Star Wars VII,” we did get a quite hilarious pitch for what the next “Star Wars” film should look like via an improvised tangent from comedian Patton Oswalt. In an outtake from this week’s episode of “Parks and Recreation,” Oswalt details a “Star Wars” inhabited by the likes of Iron Man, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Thanos, and Sam Worthington from “Clash of the Titans.” Clearly, this “Star Wars VII: The Gauntlet of Infinity” is a film that will never happen; especially the part about Chewbacca’s decapitated head attached to a spider walker droid

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Secretary of State John Kerry kicks off “Hangouts at State” series on Google+

Posted by | Apr 23, 2013 | |

Over the past year, Google+ has been used across the globe to connect people and enable free expression—from Syria Deeply, an independent news site which regularly uses Google+ and Hangouts to report about the crisis in Syria to Tom Fletcher, the British Ambassador to Lebanon, who issues dispatches from one country to another via Hangout.Today, the U.S. Department of State is building on this trend by announcing a new series of discussions called “Hangouts at State.” Each month, these conversations will bring people together across global boundaries to discuss the most pressing U.S. foreign policy issues, like democracy promotion, human rights, counterterrorism efforts, economic development, climate change and drug interdiction.

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Michael Bay Promises ‘Transformers 4’ Will Be Shorter

Posted by | Apr 23, 2013 | |

If one of your complaints about “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is that it ran way, way too long, then you’re in luck with “Transformers 4.” Michael Bay has confirmed that his new movie—and his last “Transformers” film for real this time—will run about half an hour shorter than the previous installment in the franchise. “I designed two hours seven minutes, which I think is a good formula, which gives enough room to maneuver,” he told Canadian website Canoë (via Comic Book Movie).

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