Hailing Frequencies Issue #309

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WB has a Website up for Tim Burton's stop-motion Corpse Bride, set for theatres September 23.

The soundtrack is by David Newman and will be released on CD by Varese Sarabande Records on September 27th. Check out a sneak listened here.

Send your answer to scifi@about.com. All correctly answering trivia maniacs will have their names mentioned in the next letter. The first winner gets to make a request, anything they like -- within reason -- for the next "Hailing Frequencies" Issue. Please let me know if you don't want me to post your email address if you win.

Last Week's Question: On Bajor, what medical condition has the symptom of constant sneezing?

Send in your best caption for the picture below. The best (as in, my favorite) entry will appear in next week's issue.

Honorable Mentions...

“Harrison,” she breathed. “Sally Kellerman wants to know when you’re going back to finish her garage.” - Raymond

“We have so much in common: my Mom was in Singin’ in the Rain and you Dad was a Weather Man.” - Raymond

Cue music and…“Ahhh, sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found you….” - Raymond

“C’mon,” she panted. “Lie that walking carpet down and we can have a threesome.” - Raymond

"Watch the hair, Flyboy!" - BTCHONWHLS

Han: "There is something I need to tell you."
Leia: "You want to kiss me?"
Han: "No I just saved a bundle on my starship insurance." - Talleyjames

"I still can't see anything in your eye."
"Come closer." - sexualuniverse

"There must be a less intimate method to pass microfilm between agents." - sexualuniverse

"You go right and I will go left and maybe we can break the glue bond." - MelKayeT

This week's topic: What is the most original movie or TV show you've seen recently?

On the advice of a friend I got the DVD's for Firefly and sat down and watched a whole disc at each sitting. By the time I finished I was hooked. I like the characters. I love the ship. I liked the look and feel of the bad guys.

Now tell me why this series didn't make it?

I missed it because I was always working and never got around to setting the VCR for it. I already tape three or four shows a week to watch when I get time.

Then again I grew up with the great Westerns of American TV. I also watched Star Trek (original series) when it first aired.

I did hear that they started the series with the train robbery episode rather than the real pilot. That alone would have driven me nuts. I watched them in the correct order so maybe I did better by waiting.

Anyway...Firefly is first....then there was the movie, The Incredibles for second. And maybe Hitchiker's Guide for third....(however, if there is to be a sequel...I can only hope they amputate the second head of the President. That was SO, SO annoying when he snapped his head back...liked the two-headed President from the old TV series better).

Annie

Original? In this Decade of the Sequel? Does BSG2K count if it's technically a re-imagining of a '70s show?

Next week's topic: On other so-called "sci-fi" and "fantasty" sites, I see all sorts of TV shows and movies and books that I don't personally consider sci-fi or fantasy, but horror or religious or thriller stuff. I mean...James Bond? What's that about? What makes it "sci-fi" or "fantasy" to you?

Send me something if you've got something to say. It can be about anything that's on your mind! (Please let me know if you don't want your email address to accompany your name in either contest or for the LTE.)

1 The 40 Year-old Virgin.....................$29,944,955
2 Red-Eye........................................$20,941,290
3 Four Brothers.................................$46,534,988
4 The Wedding Crashers....................$180,568,000
5 The Skeleton Key............................$32,819,460
6 March of the Penguins......................$50,546,244
7 Valiant............................................$7,707,000
8 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....$194,392,018
9 The Dukes of Hazzard.......................$70,862,063
10 Sky High......................................$52,239,000

1. Medium 4.1
2. Desperate Housewives 3.9
3. Lost 3.0
4. Smallville 1.5
5. Charmed 1.1

1. Stargate SG-1 1.6
2. The Twilight Zone 1.4
3. Andromeda 1.2
4. Mutant X 1.2
5. She Spies 1.1
6. The X-Files 1.1
7. Angel 1.0
8. Buffy 1.0
9. The Outer Limits 1.0
10. Sabrina 0.7

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2. Eldest (Inheritance 2)
3. The Da Vinci Code
4. The Historian
5. Knife of Dreams (Wheel of Time 11)
6. Harry Potter paper box set
7. Angels and Demons
8. Chronicles of Narnia box set
9. The Time Traveler's Wife
10. A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander 6)

1. Sin City
2. Lost season one
3. Star Wars: Episode III
4. Stargate SG-1 season eight
5. Kung Fu Hustle
6. Cinderella platinum edition
7. Alias season four
8. Smallville season four
9. Firefly complete series
10. Charmed season two