Too Well Made for the Future
LACMA's Home of the Future show includes Disneyland's 1957 plastic House of the Future. It went out of date in ten years, and it took choker chains to knock it down.
Not the Sequel It Said It Was
Tales of Eternia Remastered is out. Americans first played it in 2001 as Tales of Destiny II, which it isn't. The real Tales of Destiny 2 never came out in English at all.
The Title They Were Afraid Of
Scream goes back into theaters on October 30. It was written as Scary Movie, and renamed so nobody would expect a comedy. Four years later, the same label released a comedy called Scary Movie.
The Man Who Wrote Its Obituary
Tate Modern is calling its new show the birth of art photography. One of the photographers in it spent 1889 arguing photography was a fine art, then mailed out a black-bordered pamphlet announcing its death.
A Million Pounds to Sound Like a Jam
Tears for Fears' The Seeds of Love gets another deluxe reissue today. The band spent about fifteen times more making it than its predecessor, to get a looser sound.