"Conversation with the Moon" by Charles Vess, "Stardust"
The following are links from excerpts of Neil Gaiman's blog, the author of the book the film Stardust is based on.
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-- In the NY Times!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/movies/05mcgr.html?ex=1343880000&en=f861b08256a54dc3&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
-- LA Times about Stardust and more, and they gathered quotes from film director Matthew Vaughn, actress Claire Danes and others:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-stardust5aug05,1,7113938.story?coll=la-entnews-movies
-- Charlie Cox (who portrays Stardust's young hero) is also interviewed in the LA Times --
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-charlie5aug05,0,1998613.story
-- Charles Vess and his wife Karen Shaffer were flying back from California and opened up their USA TODAY on the plane and found this:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-07-30-neil-gaiman_N.htm
-- There's a little footage from the Los Angeles premiere at:
http://www.film.com/tv/mediaplayback/thelapremiereofstardust/15725204
-- Interesting interview with film director Matthew Vaughn at
http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6109
-- Stardust currently has 100% on rottentomatoes.com!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stardust/
-- Variety's review of Stardust is at
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934304.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=2562#
Sprinkled with tongue-in-cheek humor, fairly adult jokes and some well-known
faces acting very silly, this adventure story should have particular appeal
to fans of "The Princess Bride," but in any event will never be mistaken for a
strictly-for-kids movie.
It's also another lovely review for Michelle Pfeiffer...
The best thing in the film, Pfeiffer shows great comedic timing, and
her metamorphoses -- as Lamia careens from flourishing beauty to
horrible crone -- show considerable courage, as the actress manages
to be funny regardless of what state of decrepitude she's in. It's
not a very admirable character, after all: Lamia turns people into
goats and goats into people, and she and her sisters foretell the
future by hacking up animals and reading their entrails. They're not
the most in-demand dinner guests.
-- The new Stardust sculpture is available -- designed and modeled by Charles Vess.
Details at http://www.dccomics.com/dcdirect/?dcd=7061&cat=STATUES&lst=new.
NOTE: You can get it extremely cheap (at cost -- almost half price) over at
http://atlantiscomicsonline.blogspot.com/2007/08/arriving-887-and-stardust-staue-deal.html
from a store that over-ordered (thinking it was the poster) and needs to move them...
