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The Wanda Sykes Show , week two: Eight minutes of righteous jokes about passing a health care bill, then using a clip from the Steve McQueen movie The Blob , re-titled "Obama Care," to obliterate the jokes that had preceded it.

What's 51 years old and made of silicone with red food dye? The Blob , best known for it's work in The Blob , an independent film released in 1958, with Steve McQueen's second movie role .

Beachcombing, as many a resident of the top of the south can attest, is a great way to spend time.

Robert Cummings aka Rob Zombie, best known for his remake of the Halloween movie and Halloween II, is also heavy metal band White Zombie.

It's Meteor Night on Turner Classic movies, and no, the movie "Meteor" is not part of the fun.

Park Place Cinemas rolled out the red carpet for Hollywood actress Shawnee Smith.

Recommended THE PROGRAM "Wanted: Dead or Alive" is a prime example of a TV series that has cemented its place in history for reasons other than its overall quality.

"New Adventures of Old Christine" : Barb serves Christine with divorce papers, so she hires a lawyer .

In these trying times for the music industry, it seems like every band has been grasping for attention with some variation on the 12-songs/EPs/albums-in-12-months theme; Mae - playing Emo's Jr.

In some contradicting film news, director Rob Zombie has been confirmed to helm the remake of 1958's The Blob .

After reviving the "Halloween" franchise, Rob Zombie will next reinvent "The Blob." Zombie will write, direct and produce a remake of the 1958 horror classic that launched the career of Steve McQueen.

BORN IN Manhattan, Kan., actor and writer Del Close passed away on March 4, 1999, five days short of his 65th birthday.

This young supporting and occasional lead player, of the late 1980s and early 90s is the son of 60s pop/folksinger Donovan and brother of actress Ione Skye.

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I remember first watching the classic 1958 horror film "The Blob" on some late-night cable channel in the early 1980's. Steve McQueen used his quick wits to dispatch a shapeless alien invader who seemed intent on eating the entire planet.

Science fact is again stranger than science fiction: The New York Times recently reported on new evidence showing that black holes could "be the key to mysterious glowing clouds of gas lurking in the early universe." Those clouds, "technically called blobs" in the Times' words, "inhabit places and times in which galaxies and stars were being built ...

It's a scene straight out of 'The Blob.' A giant mass of goo has formed and is moving through the Chukchi Sea in Alaska.

In our real-life version of the 1958 horror classic, the pink undulating clump has morphed into a fearsome mass of 25-years-and-out cop and firefighter pensions.

That's the headline to the currently most-read story on the Fox News.com site, but the real story is not quite as exciting as The Blob movie.