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Monday, December 6th, 2010
 Leading the charge of new super hero movies, Green Lantern is projected to storm into action on June 17, 2011 as the first DC super hero movie to get the revolutionary 3D treatment. As the slow months to release pass, you’re bound to see a big comic book movie revival as DC Comics t-shirts begin to fill the streets in anticipation. As one hero who’s never gotten the feature film treatment before, and with a niche but extremely dedicated fanbase, DC promises to pull out all the stops to make this the greatest DC movie yet! But for the uninitiated: who is Green Lantern? Actually, the Green Lantern is a role in an intergalactic police force, composed of thousands of different heroes from all across the universe. The power rings, the source of the Green Lantern powers, are forged by the “Guardians of the Universe” and are limited only by the strength and willpower of the wielder. In the film, it’s Hal Jordan (played by Ryan Reynolds), the first human ever selected to be worthy of the all-powerful power ring. Though later plot arcs would see the Green Lantern bumping shoulders with the rest of the DC lineup, fighting alongside Superman, Batman, and others to save the entire universe from destruction, the new film serves as a reboot for new fans and starts the story from the very beginning.
And that’s good, because there’s a whole world out there for Lantern recruits to catch up on. Green Lantern has graced comic pages for over sixty years and shows no signs of slowing down! Depending on the success of the new movie, we may even see an entire trilogy of Green Lantern films, with the second screenplay already in the works! Join the ranks of the Latern Corps and show your support with great Green Lantern t-shirts, and be sure not to miss the next evolution of this classic franchise on June 17th.
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
 At 2Bhip we mourn the loss of Leslie Nielsen, a sixty-two year film veteran best known for his deadpan roles as Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun series and Dr. Alan Rumack in the cult-comedy Airplane. Though best known for his groundbreaking comedic roles, where he played the straight man to slapstick and absurdity, his career goes way back to television’s Golden Age, appearing as a serious actor on almost fifty shows in 1950 alone. He would go on to score starring roles in the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet and later, the Academy Award-winning Poseidon Adventure, as well as dozens of other films from 1956-1980. The eighties would see Nielsen finding a comedic passion with an unforgettable role in Airplane, a call back to his own disaster-film days. Called “a fish in water” by colleagues, Nielsen would become known as a comedic icon, a straight man to contrast the absurdity around him. With the success of Airplane and that famous line “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley”, he would go on to star in the Naked Gun trilogy, an even more absurd take on popular comedy that made Frank Drebin a household name. Even after achieving comedic fame in Airplane and Naked Gun, Nielsen kept his passion for acting and continued to star in new projects, including the modern comedies Scary Movie 3 & 4 and a serious acting role in Music Within, all the way until his death. Not just a comedian but a well-respected actor with a sixty-two year legacy, Leslie Nielsen should be remembered by anyone who appreciates cinema history. In commemoration, we offer great Airplane t-shirts and Naked Gun t-shirts, featuring the lines we know film goers everywhere will never forget.
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Friday, October 29th, 2010
 Bruce Lee is one of those cult figures who’s many different things to many different people. For some, he’s a standout martial artist. His discipline and skill in martial arts combat is historically unparalleled and his techniques gave rise to the distinctive Jeet Kune Do fighting style. For others, he’s better known as the iconic star of martial arts films like Way Of The Dragon and Enter The Dragon, in which he displayed his famous Jeet Kune Do fighting style in perfect form on the silver screen. And for many others, he is best known for the legends surrounding him; the infamous One Inch Punch (a punch delivered literally from an inch away) is said to have sent a man who outweighed him by almost one hundred pounds flying through the air, landing fifteen feet away. Let’s not forget the tales of thumbs-only pushups, side-kicking three hundred pound heavy bags to the ceiling, and catching rice thrown into the air with chopsticks.
Bruce Lee’s martial arts skill is without a doubt legendary and unprecedented, but with a private life of martial arts merged with a public life of film acting it’s hard to get a feel for just who Bruce Lee was; not as just a martial artist, but as a man. With November’s (projected release) new Bruce Lee biopic “Bruce Lee, My Brother” coming out, we’ll get a look at just that.
As the title implies, the film is recounted by his surviving brother Robert Lee and tells of Bruce Lee’s life as a youth, when he was first breaking into film making as a child and developing his martial arts style on the street, not the studio. While it remains to be seen if relative newcomer Aarif Lee will be able to effectively play such a legendary figure, the film promises conceptually to be everything Bruce Lee fans have searched for. With so many conflicting accounts of Bruce Lee’s life and prowess, to hear his history straight from his own brother is a fantastic opportunity. Still unrivaled and unmatched, there’s never been a better time to celebrate the “Genesis of the Dragon”. We have great Bruce Lee t-shirts cool enough to pop off a few roundhouses in, and hope to continue to honor Lee’s legacy as the biopic’s release draws closer.
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
 Jeff Dunham is one of the most-viewed and most popular comedians of all time, dominating sites like Youtube and putting phrases like “Silence, I keel you!” and “on a steeeek” into the pop culture vernacular for years to come. Jeff Dunham T shirts are flying off the shelves, and he even had his own self-named tv show! If you live under a rock with no cable hookup and you missed his comedy specials, and somehow missed him online (his debut of Achmed is in the Top 10 most viewed Youtube videos, with over 350 million hits!), there’s one thing about him that makes these accomplishments all the more incredible: He’s a ventriloquist.
That’s right. Reviving an art that most thought to be long-dead, including many of the networks that wound up syndicating him worldwide, Jeff Dunham has become a self made millionaire by letting nobody convince him that the hobby he loves wouldn’t succeed. On the strength of his hilarious characters and his expertise of the form, he’s reached a level of success and popularity no fellow ventriloquist has ever seen. While his clean-cut image appeals to families, his act is edgy and offensive enough to satisfy any fan of modern comedy, and his characters continue to be contemporary and relevant. His most popular include:
Walter: A retired old man, Walter is discontented and sarcastic to a hilarious degree. Married for forty-six years, Walter claims the happiest moment of his life was “forty-seven years ago”. He’s often used to read and mock letters from the audience, and was one of Dunham’s original puppets, appearing in every one of his tv specials.
Peanut: A hyperactive, spastic purple puppet, Peanut often torments both the other characters and Jeff directly, even using a tiny Jeff puppet to mock him. A fan favorite and easily the most unusual of Dunham’s characters, he asked, after Dunham claimed to have never done drugs, “then how the hell did you come up with me”? Peanut was also one of his original puppets, another fixture of every one of his tv specials.
Achmed The Dead Terrorist: The newest addition, Achmed is a skeletal corpse of an incompetent suicide bomber used to satirize the terrorism issue. He suffers from “premature detonation”, and became the breakthrough star of Dunham’s act, propelling it to unheard-of levels of popularity. A very difficult character to make funny in such sensitive times, Jeff Dunham had the skill and professionalism needed to make it succeed. Now Achmed The Dead Terrorist T Shirts fly off the shelves and everyone knows that famous line, “I KEEL YOU!”. There are many more, usually up to seven different characters in one act, from a bumbling superhero to a smooth “Player In the Management Profession”. With such a wide variety, there’s a character for everyone to share a laugh with. We have Jeff Dunham t-shirts featuring the most popular characters and lines, and will continue to follow Jeff as he proves that ventriloquism, unlike Achmed, will never die.
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
Brain child of the Disney Corporation and delivered with the flawless execution of a new innovative technology, Toy Story is fantastic on a number of levels. Toy Story was the first film for Pixar Entertainment who pioneered the use of cgi cinematography. Mix in a colorful storyline performed by an incredibly talented cast and crowds worldwide lined up to take part of this fantasy. Toy Story 2, the sophmore film, experienced the same success of it’s predecessor. The film featured a mix of familiar voices. Tom Hanks stars as Woody, the lovable old fashioned pull string cowboy and best pal to his child owner, Andy. A wonderland of it own, Andy’s room is full of toys who come to life when he leaves. Woody is their leader.
In the first film we’re introduced to Buzz Lightyear a fearless and dare say oblivious astronaut action figure who unlike the other toys, believes he’s real. Andy brings Buzz home after a birthday party and is awstruck with the buttons, new dazzling features and, of course, the trademark “To infinity and beyond!”. Alas, Woody is disenchanted fearing that his place in the boys heart as his best pal may be lost to this new toy. From there the movie unfolds as Woody plots to trap this intruder that results in him falling out of the Toy room only to having Buzz come to his aid. They learn that they must rely on each other to make it home.
Of course, as is the Disney way, the two toys become comrades in the end and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Just like that, a franchise was launched with plush dolls, funny t-shirts and the Toy Story Mania area at Disneyland California Adventure. The best part about the film(s) is not only the appeal they have for children but that the adults can enjoy it just as much. That’s an impressive feat and we’re all hooked as a result. 2010′s Toy Story 3 brings some old friendly faces back to the big screen, like the piggy bank named Hamm. “Lotso” (short for Lots-O’-Huggin Bear) is the newest member of the bunch. June 18th in the release date and the world is sitting in anticipation . With such a great time in store, who wouldn’t be.
Tags: Pixar, Toy Story, Toy Story 3
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
The first of the Karate Kid series was a critically acclaimed coming of age  story about a student-mentor relationship and the battle for dignity against the dishonorable Cobra Kai. It brought us classic phrases like “wax on, wax off” and “sweep the leg”, the crane kick has entered the martial arts lexicon, and the film launched Ralph Macchio’s career as a teen sensation. It would see three sequels, all popular, but critically none would have the cult reputation of the iconic first film, which is still merchandised and quoted to this day.  However, a new challenger finally enters to make a grab for Macchio’s throne. Produced by Will Smith and starring his son Jaden, 2010′s upcoming Karate Kid movie has a June 11th release date and a world of anticipation behind it. More of a reboot than a remake, Karate Kid 2010 brings the action overseas to Beijing, and focuses on kung fu over the more traditional karate from the original. Though Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) has sadly passed on, he finds a suitable replacement in film legend Jackie Chan, playing Mr. Han, a kung-fu master passing on his kung fu secrets to the new “karate kid”. While the characters and fighting style may have changed, the film looks to keep the spirit intact, and with filming being performed on location in places like the Great Wall of China it looks to be the authentic martial arts film fans have been dying to see. Respectfully, the new film will contain a few homages to the original, including a variation on the fly-catching training sequence. While the great cast and location should keep old fans satisfied, this will prove to be a great time to get a whole new generation in on the Karate Kid legend, and bring “strike first strike hard no mercy sir” back to the warrior repertoire once again.
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
 As aficionados of the eighties, we mourn the recent loss of 80′s television icon Gary Coleman. Best known as Arnold Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes, Coleman made “Whatchoo talkin’ bout’ Willis?” a household phrase and is one of the most recognizable of all the 80′s childhood icons. He would continue to make cameo appearances on television all the way until his death, though the pressures of fame would force him to reject his spotlight and focus on his personal life for much of his adulthood.
While he first appeared as a child actor on The Jeffersons and Good Times, most will remember Gary Coleman through his role on Diff’rent Strokes, a chance for his Arnold Jackson character to step forward into the spotlight. One of two brothers who lost his mother, he was adopted by a rich white widower and given a chance to move away from his poor Harlem childhood and live the dream. Contemporary, and not shying away from difficult issues like racial tension, drug use, and poverty, Diff’rent Strokes was a silent hit that received an eight season run, inspiring several popular spinoffs like The Facts of Life and ensuring Coleman’s place in television history. During and after Diff’rent Strokes, he’d even make cameos on many other sitcoms to say his famous catchphrase.
After Diff’rent Strokes, his parents and manager misappropriated his trust fund, nearly bankrupting him of his hard earned money from the series. After a long legal battle, justice would prevail and Coleman recieved much of his profits, but would not go on to take a starring role on television again. He would go on to marry, take a humble job as a security guard, and try to take emphasis off of his television past. His cult popularity would always follow him, however. In California’s 2003 recall election, Gary Coleman satirically ran for governor and still placed 8th out of 135, with 14,242 votes!
Still seen as a pillar of 80s television, Gary Coleman courageously overcame a very difficult growth-halting kidney disease to become a beloved entertainment figure. His youth was immortalized on television, providing both personal success and difficulties, but now it can serve as a memorial where Coleman can still be seen by his fans and the world, forever young.
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