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Defending NBA champion San Antonio will open the NBA season at home against No. 1 pick Greg Oden and Portland on Oct. 30, the league announced Thursday in releasing its 20007-08 schedule.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Looks like Frank Miller has found his lead for the adaptation of Will Eisner’s THE SPIRIT.

That is Gabriel Macht, he of THE GOOD SHEPHERD and A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG. He was actually quite good in BOBBY LONG… and I haven’t gotten a chance to throw my GOOD SHEPHERD disc in the DVD player yet. I believe I missed it theatrically because of the craziness of BNAT…

Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.

A costume drama based on the “real life” of Jane Austen probably sounds as exciting to most of you as…well, a movie based on one of Austen’s books (such as SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, PERSUATION, MANSFIELD PARK, EMMA, and her most famous PRIDE AND PREJUDICE). But don’t judge BECOMING JANE too harshly before you’ve heard the fact. The fact that very little is known about Austen’s life leaves writers Sarah Williams and Kevin Hood some latitude to construct a fascinating story about a woman who was largely considered romantic poison by society due to her chosen profession and success.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I know that headline is a bit snarky… but one of my dirty little secrets is just how much I enjoy romantic comedies. Call me a sucker… call me a softie… call me an asshole… But I have a big soft spot for shit like LOVE ACTUALLY…

I’m not going to say that this is Richard Curtis level weepy-eyed fluff, but it’s another studio comedy putting Jennifer Aniston with someone way out of her league. In this case, it’s Steve Zahn who will play a hotel manager who has a fling with a hot traveling saleswoman. She goes across the country selling hotels those tacky, bland paintings.

Q. In your review of “The Simpsons Movie,” you mention that it is already voted as the 166th best film of all time on the Internet Movie Database and ask, “Do you suppose somehow the ballot box got stuffed by ‘Simpsons’ fans who didn’t even need to see the movie to know it was a masterpiece? D’oh!” Likewise, readers of your own Web site on the morning of the film’s release already gave it a four-star rating. Don’t you think these are merely fans of the movie showing their contempt for you and all other reviewers, and in fact for any but their own opinions?

Bill Pierce, Burlington, Ontario

A. Not at all. They simply love the Simpsons. By the way, on July 29, “The Simpsons Movie” had climbed up to the 43rd greatest film of all time, right behind Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” and three ahead of “Chinatown.” Will it knock off “The Godfather” for No. 1? IMDb.com notes: “For the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.”

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I know that headline is a bit snarky… but one of my dirty little secrets is just how much I enjoy romantic comedies. Call me a sucker… call me a softie… call me an asshole… But I have a big soft spot for shit like LOVE ACTUALLY…

I’m not going to say that this is Richard Curtis level weepy-eyed fluff, but it’s another studio comedy putting Jennifer Aniston with someone way out of her league. In this case, it’s Steve Zahn who will play a hotel manager who has a fling with a hot traveling saleswoman. She goes across the country selling hotels those tacky, bland paintings.

Hey folks. Quint here with an obit sent in by Professor Griffin for one of the old school make-up pioneers, William Tuttle, who recently passed. Here are the words from the Professor:

William Tuttle has died.

What does the future look like?

Ask William Tuttle. To him, the future is populated by delicate pale and whispy Eloi, and brutal albino Morlocks.

What are the 7 faces of Dr. Lao?

Ask William Tuttle. The timeless Chinese Mystic appeared as a brutish pale white Yeti, a mind-bending Medusa, a blind seer of the future, an ancient doddering Merlin with memories of glory, a sinful Pan, a fever-dream snake, and of course as a slight, bald, old man…with a gold Donkey and a rather dangerous goldfish in a jar.