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Fun With Photoshop II: Electric Boogaloo

posted June 17, 2009 6:08 AM

If you were around yesterday, you may recall that we proposed a little contest to honor the Criterion Collection's new Blu-ray version of Ingmar Bergman's art-house classic The Seventh Seal. Specifically, we challenged readers to take that film's iconic image -- Max Von Sydow playing chess with the Grim Reaper -- and substitute the face of the late chess superstar Bobby Fischer, thus reproducing the unavailable on the web photo from the National Lampoon's Bobby Fischer Shows You How to Beat Death! parody of the early 70s.

Well, we have a winner -- reader dSmith has gone and done it. Behold his handiwork and marvel.

Take a bow, d, and be assured that your prize -- a DVD of the toothsome Isla Fisher (a theme, get it?) in Confessions of a Shopaholic, the 80s Yuppie comedy inexplicably washed up on the shore of the early 21st century, is in the mail.

I should add that had we had a second place winner, he or she would have received two copies of Shopaholic. It's that kind of a movie.

4 Comments

Cousin Kevin said:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Seriously, that's great, but it's really bizarre that none of that great Lampoon stuff is on the web.

June 17, 2009 7:03 AM

Gwen De Marco said:

So Shopaholic is the cinematic equivalent of Philadelphia?

(h/t W. C. Fields)

June 17, 2009 8:31 AM

pretzel said:

2 shopaholics and a free bathroom regrouting

June 17, 2009 9:13 AM

¡El Gato Negro! said:

There was a scene where Bobby threw a tantrum and stomped out, but Bergman wisely left it on the cutting room floor.

I expect it would've unduly changed the tenor of the mise en scene, no?

June 17, 2009 2:23 PM

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Steve Simels has written about music and movies for Sound and Vision magazine (formerly Stereo Review) since the early 70s. He has also contributed to Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide and the Wall Street Journal. He’s the author of “Gender Chameleons: Androgyny in Rock n Roll” (Arbor House, 1985), and blogs at PowerPop.blogspot.com. His ambition in life is to play the Leslie Howard role in a remake of “Petrified Forest.”