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What’s your favorite scene of one character pulling the wool over another character’s eyes in order to distract them so that he, she, or others can sneak past unnoticed?

I love Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog posing as “The Pizza Twins” in The Great Muppet Caper, taking an order so their pals can get through to the Mallory Gallery in their quest to foil the theft of the Baseball Diamond.

I’m fond of Indiana Jones’s posing as a Scottish lord in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, even if it is one of Indy’s least plausible moments.

There are some rather amusing disguises in the Danny Ocean series too.

What springs to mind?

First, a trailer…

Watch it in HD here.

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Coming soon:

June 9: Elvis Costello with T-Bone Burnett! The Secret, The Profane and Sugarcane.

That’s fantastic news. But making the spring even sweeter, here’s more:
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“Valkyrie stars Tom Cruise as the plotter who tried to blow up Hitler, but a young sister and her brother were the real heroes of the German resistance.”

Here’s Whitman’s take on U2′s No Line on the Horizon.

De kleuren van Auralia is here.

I’m trying not to take it personally that it’s described as a “Schitterend fantasy-boek.” (What exactly does that mean?)

UPDATE: Anne and I have plane tickets to Amsterdam in hand. In April, we will indeed be boarding my first international flight since 1991. I’m preparing several presentations on Christian discernment in film, and I’ll be addressing a variety of audiences. Many, many thanks in advance to my generous hosts, program planners, and the publishers who have translated Through a Screen Darkly into Dutch. (And to the other folks who translated Auralia’s Colors.) What an honor and a privilege! I’m overwhelmed.

Here’s a news update from Sam Phillips’ blog that makes 2009 all the more promising….

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So… there *is* a line on U2′s horizon. And Spider-man’s swinging on it.

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is coming, Julie Taymor’s new stage musical, with music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge.

The $40 million effort, reportedly the most expensive Broadway production ever, will make its debut in the Hilton Theatre, the only venue big enough to allow the superhero room to spin his way around the sprawling skyscraper sets while duking it out with various bad guys.