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Monday, February 04, 2013

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Will Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" Sing on Broadway?

Playbill.com: Golden Globe Award winner Tina Fey and husband Jeff Richmond are developing a stage adaptation of Fey's 2004 hit comedy film "Mean Girls," which starred actress Lindsay Lohan as a high school transfer student trying to navigate teenage social cliques.



Motion test for Mama's ghostly creature is freaky all by itself

io9.com: This test to develop Javier Botet's movements as the lady ghost of Guillermo del Toro's Mama is delightfully spooky, especially in black and white. Botet (whose especially thin physique is a result of Marfan syndrome) really knows how to maneuver his body to create something otherworldly and menacing.
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Cirque battles declining fortunes

Variety: Even the slickest tightrope walker loses their balance sometimes, and 2012 will go down as the year when blockbuster spectacle-peddler Cirque du Soleil found itself on a very slippery downward slide for the first time in its 28 year history. On Jan. 16, the company announced it was laying off 400 of their 5,000 world-wide employees, most of them coming from the head office in Montreal.
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Human Dimension & Interior Space

Cool Tools: When designing a space or wearables for humans, you’ll need precise measurements of our size. How high to put a door knob, the circumference of our necks, how far we can reach overhead? There’s no such thing as an average person, so you’ll also need to know what the variances are, too.
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Hundreds Die in Brazilian Nightclub Fire

Music News | Rolling Stone: More than 230 people were killed in a fire that raged through a nightclub in Brazil early Sunday morning, the Associated Press reports. The majority of the victims were local students, who had packed the Kiss club in the university city of Santa Maria.
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