It’s like The A-Team meets Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four, with a dash of The Bionic Woman thrown in for good measure:

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This is all courtesy of Popoholic. I have to admit that not only do I remember this, but I loved it. The ’70s were a real golden era for superhero TV between this, Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman, and the Bixby/Ferrigno Hulk.

Although some of us (I’m looking at you, B.J.) were always partial to the early ’90s, John Wesley Shipp Flash.

Noting last week’s post on the greatest Wrestlemania matches of all-time, Galley Friend A.W. sends this link to the worst Wrestlemania of all-time–Wrestlemania IX: Caesar’s Palace.

Ugh. [shiver]

For those of you who might have gotten the impression that Sony didn’t put a ton of thought into the PS3, there’s this story on how the company was adamant about . . . the font used on the console:

CVG reports that Teiyu Goto, one the main creative minds behind the design of the PlayStation 3, has admitted that SCE’s chairman and chief executive Ken Kuturagi was the driving force behind Sony’s use of the Spider-Man movie font for the PS3 logo.

In an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine, Goto stated: “If you really look at the PS3 contour carefully, it is rounded when viewing the console in profile. Rather than creating a typography with all the risks that entails, it was wiser to use the one from Spider-Man, for which Sony has the rights.

“It was also the wish of then-president Kutaragi, who insisted that I use this typography. In fact, the logo was one of the first elements he decided on and the logo may have been the motivating force behind the shape of PS3.

That’ll be a great footnote for whatever MBA student does the first study of the PS3.

I only link to this story so I can use that headline. Minority Report is totally under-rated.

Guess how many graduates of Pat Robertson’s Regent University are working in the Bush administration?

Go ahead, I dare you.

Strap on your Compton hat for this crazy amazing Jeffrey Goldberg piece on Wal-Mart.

How great is Goldberg? You can drop him into Kurdistan to report on terrorists or Arkansas to report on the world’s largest retailer and he gets the goods either way:

It became clear to me in Bentonville that Wal-Mart’s senior executives had been tightly scripted. When I talked with John Menzer, a company vice-chairman, a spokeswoman named Sarah Clark, my official escort there, told me that the conversation would be limited to the company’s new Jobs and Opportunity Zones concept, which is designed to help smooth the arrival of new stores in urban areas. (A company source told me that the Zones idea was intended by Edelman as a public-relations maneuver to soften Wal-Mart’s image among minority communities; the entire budget for the program is five hundred thousand dollars over two years.) Menzer, a slender man with a thin smile, explained the company’s attraction to underemployed inner-city residents, saying, “One of the biggest opportunities a person has at Wal-Mart is to be part of this growth company. There are always opportunities for promotion, learning, and education, and people know they can build a career here.”

When I asked about the “open availability” policy, Clark interrupted, while Menzer stared at me. “I can certainly take that one,” Clark said. “I’ll make a note of that. We’ll talk about that later. We don’t have ‘open availability.’ ” Menzer continued as if the question had not been asked. “Now we’re expanding outside our four walls to invest in the community, so let me add that in as another step we’re taking,” he said. (Sometime later, Clark suggested that I interview an employee about flexible scheduling, and she provided the name and number of one who would talk to me: Latoya Machato, a cashier at a Texas Supercenter. I called the store and asked for Machato, but was told that “cashiers can’t come to the phone during work.” I called later and was told that Machato could speak to me on her break, but would not be allowed to call long-distance from a company phone. I asked Clark if Machato could talk to me after her shift, but Clark said that that would be impossible, because the store would have to put her “on the clock,” and thus file the paperwork to get her paid an extra hour’s wage.)

Go read it all. It only gets better.

I’m not really feeling Grindhouse, but if the movie is half as entertaining as this review, then it’ll be worth at least a matinee ticket. Seriously, this is like Matt Labash, in New Orleans, on crank:

PLANET OF TERROR is directed by Robert Rodriquez, which is all I need to say. In fact, instead of his name on poster saying, “Directed By”, he can legally change his name to a picture of a naked Viking woman on a snowmobile with flamethrowers out the back and the flamethrowers are killing a Yeti. That’s the level of guaranteed quality his name brings to stuff.

Then there’s three other trailers – one by Rob Zombie that involves Nazis and werewolves (more factual research), one by Edgar Wright that made me laugh harder than seeing an old man give the finger to a fat kid, and then one by Eli Roth that Eli Roth should make.

Actually, the fake trailers are kind of a bummer, because I really wish they weren’t fake. Maybe the government will put some “don’t be a pussy” drug in the water supply, and everyone will go see this instead of PILLOW FIGHT AND SCENTED CANDLES AND BOREDOM, or whatever Sandra Bullock movie’s coming out, and they’ll make more of these.

It is so on.

Somehow, they clock Hogan-Andre the Giant in at #18. Ridiculous. But they do have this tidbit:

Hulk Hogan on what would’ve happened if Andre refused to lose the match to him at Wrestlemania III: “I’ll tell you, Hulk Hogan would’ve turned into a bad guy a lot quicker. My good guy run would’ve been over that night if I didn’t beat him. I would’ve got up, shook Andre’s hand, then hit him over the head with a steel chair and beat the hell out of him. It would’ve changed everything.”

Somehow, Triple H only makes the list once. Discuss.