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WHERE WAS THE INTERNET TEN YEARS AGO WHEN I NEEDED IT ? ! ! ! Back In college, I wrote several research papers about comic books and one of them was about Frank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. Even though I found a lot of articles and critiques about it, one of the articles I could never ever find was Mikal Gilmore's Rolling Stone review of it. Well, finally I found a copy!!! It's in the ARTICLES section of this fansite. I just don't have time to read it right now, but I'm just glad to finally have a copy. Talking about BATMAN... "According to a report by Michael Fleming in today’s Variety, Memento director Chris Nolan has been tapped to revive the Batman movie franchise for Warner Brothers. It’s not clear whether or not Nolan would write a script for the project as well." Well, this should prove interesting, if they ever put it together. More talk about Nolan and the movie here .

JANUARY 28, 2003 Today is my dad's birthday. His name was Salvador "Buddy" Tan. He would have been 58 today. My dad is the proverbial tough act to follow. When he was only 28 years old, he became the general manager of an entire television network. He was part of that Golden Age of Philippine Television, although a lot of people only see it as the Martial Law years. At one point or another, he got to work with the great actors and actresses of his time. He even discovered a whole lot of them. He was also the one who brought in Sesame Street to Philippine television. I guess, in a way, he became influencial in teaching a whole generation their A,B,Cs. When he left the network, he set-up his own business and become a "blocktimer". He'd buy TV shows from abroad and sell them to the local networks. So, he was the one who brought in Twilight Zone, Marcoss, Voltron, Moonlighting, Transformers, Dangard Ace, the Oscars, Takeshi Castle, and other shows too numerous t...