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2001: A Space Odyssey

Warner Brothers Finds 17 Minutes of Lost 2001: A Space Odyssey Footage

Douglas Trumbull, one of the special effects supervisors on 2001: A Space Odyssey, is no longer making his making-of documentary on the seminal science fiction film, since Warner Bros. pulled the plug on his funding.

But while in Toronto showing off stills from the photo-book that 2001: Behind the Infinite—The Making of a Masterpiece is being converted into, he happened to mention an interesting discovery made in the production of his now defunct movie.

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Double Rainbow: A Space Odyssey

 

How well do the Double Rainbow guy and 2001: A Space Odyssey go together? Surprisingly well, that’s how well. What vaults Double Rainbow above the lowly sphere of memes, through the mainstream, and into transcendence is that in addition to being a humorous Internet phenomenon, it speaks to us. We could see someone who knows nothing about the origins of Double Rainbow slipping the video below into a yoga class lineup, and it being everyone’s favorite yoga class that year.

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The Blues Brothers and Other Cool Things the Vatican Endorsed

On the 30th anniversary of the 1980 musical comedy movie The Blues Brothers, The Vatican‘s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano advised Catholics worldwide to watch the film. Developed from the two Saturday Night Live sketch characters played by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the Blues Brothers embark on “a mission from God” in the movie, to save the Catholic orphanage where they grew up from foreclosure. So retroactively topical!

So it got us thinking, what other cool or geeky things have the Vatican been known to admit to liking? Hit the jump and find out.

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