Pics, Apt Pupil & SoTD

Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 - 12:00 a.m.

First, here's your baby animal awwwwwww of the day.

Yes, of course, with pictures.

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Remember that Stephen King short story and subsequent movie called 'Apt Pupil'?

Art has imitated life in a retirement home.

Here's an excerpt from the BBC:

A man who survived the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp ended up living next door to a former Nazi camp guard in Arizona, US, it has emerged.

Nathan Gasch said when Martin Hartmann moved into the retirement complex four years ago he noticed a picture of his neighbour in an SS uniform on the wall.

Mr Gasch says he was shocked but that he never reported the incident.

However, investigators from the justice department were on Mr Hartmann's trail and this week the US expelled him.

Romanian-born Mr Hartmann, 88, was forced to move back to Germany last month and stripped of his US citizenship.

The truth about his past was uncovered in a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), a department created in 1979 to pursue war criminals.

The rest of this story is just as creepy and skirts coincidentally close to a portion of the Stephen King novella.

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Unfortunately, another story about two very lovely girls is just a rumor, but wow, it sure left me in a glazed-over thicket of speculation:

Last week, a rumor flew that Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick described an affair with the Bradys' Eve Plumb in McCormick's memoir, due out in 2008. But ABC News reports that McCormick's publisher is denying that particular story is in the book.

''We are verifying that it is not true,'' Debbie Styer, senior vice president of group publicity at publisher William Morrow, told ABC. ''The real story of what happened in (McCormick's') life and behind the scenes of the show will all come out when the book comes out.''

Huh huh. She said 'come out'.

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Finally, yesterday morning, there was an extremey interesting and entertaining movie on Comedy Central, called Shaun Of The Dead. I'd expected some sort of teenage horror story with dark comedy thrown in now and again, but it's not like that at all.

It's actually a Brit-com, set around the same scenario as G Romero's Night Of The Living Dead.

I'd been hearing about the flick for awhile now, and was very glad to have been so pleasantly surprised at what the film was really like.

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There you go. Have a good Monday.

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