Another actor for ‘Spirit Island’
Maybe some of that “Twilight” magic will rub off: Lisbon-based screenwriters Clockwork Pirate Productions say actor Graham Greene has agreed to appear in “Spirit Island.”
Clockwork Pirate Productions was featured in the b section last weekend for crowdsourcing, or running an online fund drive, to kick-start the company and what it hopes is its first movie.
Graham appeared in the 2009 Twilight movie “New Moon.” He’s also been in “Dances with Wolves,” “The Green Mile” and on “The Red Green Show.”
In a news release, Andrew Hercock, one of the principals behind CPP and co-author of “Spirit Island,” described why Greene was such a good get:
“A major component of the film is Native American myth and magic. We really needed a prominent representative of the Native American culture to provide context for those elements.”
— Kathryn Skelton
Crypto museum on CNN’s list of weird
It ranks above a Japanese museum devoted to Ramen noodles, below a Russian museum with misshapen fetuses and a head floating in vinegar.
In a Nov. 14 story, CNN International named Portland’s International Cryptozoology Museum No. 11 among “15 of the World’s Weirdest Museums.”
Its collection is described as: “relics and artifacts dealing with mythical creatures, including a life-size coelacanth and P.T. Barnum’s Feejee Mermaid, as well as a wealth of hair samples, fecal matter and foot casts of animals that probably have never walked the face of the earth.”
The museum recently moved to bigger quarters, from sharing space with a bookshop on Congress Street to its own spot at 11 Avon St.
Other notables among the top 15: the Beijing Tap Water Museum, the British Lawnmower Museum and the Clown Hall of Fame and Research Center in Wisconsin.
— Kathryn Skelton
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