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Two French students who were found stabbed to death in a burned-out London apartment were the victims of a "frenzied, brutal, horrific attack," police said Thursday, as they appealed for information about the case.

Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were bound and stabbed multiple times in the head, neck, torso, and back, said Mick Duthie, a detective with London’s Metropolitan Police.

Britain’s Press Association reported that the students had been tied up and tortured, suffering up to 250 injuries — facts the police could not confirm.

"The extent of the injuries are horrific," Duthie told a news conference. "Everyone working on this case, including myself, have been deeply shocked by what we’ve seen. I have never seen injuries like this throughout my career."

Firefighters found the students’ bodies Sunday night after responding to a fire at Bonomo’s rented room on a quiet cul-de-sac in south London, police said. They initially believed the men died in the fire, but a post-mortem exam showed they died of the stab wounds.

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Jerry Herman, eyes welling with tears, could hardly believe what he was hearing as he watched the new animated blockbuster "Wall-E."

The composer of the Tony-winning musical "Hello, Dolly!" had licensed songs from the 1964 show to Pixar — The Walt Disney Co.’s computer animation arm — but he had no idea that his music and lyrics would factor so prominently in the story line of the sci-fi robot romance.

"I’m still blown away by the fact that two songs of mine that are close to 50 years old have been used as the underpinning" of the movie, Herman told The Associated Press in an interview from Los Angeles, California.

Writer-director Andrew Stanton used the tunes "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" and "It Only Takes a Moment" to express the psyche of the love-starved, trash-compacting robot Wall-E.

"My eyes were really wet at both the opening and the closing of the film, and just the wonderful way those songs were used to make him more human," Herman said. "That’s really what they did."

Laughing, Herman said it was "so weird" that the songs would be used in a robot movie. But he said the theme of "Hello, Dolly!" — about a 19th-century widowed matchmaker who learns to live again — is relevant to the world of Wall-E, where chubby, unmotivated humans are pampered by robots in a giant space ship before a wake-up call jolts them out of complacency.

"It’s about a basic need for people to go on with life and not shut themselves away and to make the most out of the time we have on this planet," Herman said.

For a film with little human dialogue, "Wall-E" was the box-office champion in its opening weekend, nudging the Angelina Jolie thriller "Wanted" to second place.

"Wall-E" opens with panoramic views of galaxies far away, using "Sunday Clothes" as a sunny soundtrack. But the song’s exuberant lyrics — "Out there/There’s a world outside of Yonkers" — take on new meaning when the scene shifts to the bleak atmosphere of Wall-E’s homeland: garbage-ridden planet Earth.

In an interview with the AP, Stanton said he knew he wanted to juxtapose retro music with this futuristic setting, but discovered "a perfect fit" to his narrative when he stumbled upon the "Hello, Dolly!" repertoire and the lyric "out there." (In the musical, it is the song that a Yonkers store clerk croons as he and his apprentice plan their New York City adventure.)

"I thought it was a perfect counterpoint to have this sort of almost naive optimism in the song," Stanton said.

"But then it seemed even more appropriate the more I thought about it, because the song is about two naive guys (who) have never left their small town and they just want to go to the big city for one night, live it up and kiss a girl. And I thought, `That is my main character."’

And in those first images of planets and stars, "you’re meeting Wall-E’s dreams before you ever get to meet Wall-E. And I love that. That was just so poetic to me," Stanton said.

The lonely Wall-E is the only ‘robot of his kind left on Earth, an apocalyptic wasteland abandoned by the human race 700 years before. His daily routine is compressing garbage into neat cubes to stash atop towering piles. At the end of the day, aching for connection, he retreats to his evening hide-out, where he uses an iPod to watch a videotape of the 1969 movie version of "Dolly," starring Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau.

Wall-E learns about love from the ballad "It Only Takes a Moment," in which Cornelius the clerk (Michael Crawford) expresses his feelings to Irene Molloy (Marianne McAndrew). The number ends with the lovers holding hands and strolling through a park, and our hero clasps his robot fingers together to simulate hand-holding.

That scene was the result of an a-ha! moment Stanton had while watching Crawford and McAndrew’s duet: "I saw them holding hands and it was like a light bulb going off. Like, that is exactly the best way I could express the phrase `I love you’ from a character that can’t say it. And then I was hooked. Then I said, "Omigosh, this movie (`Hello, Dolly!’) is practically helping me tell my story."

By then, Stanton knew he had to "bookend" his movie with the two songs. They play repeatedly throughout the film, supplementing Thomas Newman’s score along with songs by Louis Armstrong ("La Vie En Rose") and Peter Gabriel ("Down to Earth").

The 76-year-old Herman — who also composed the musical scores for "Mame" and "La Cage aux folles" — couldn’t be more pleased.

"Boy, what a thrill for me," he said. "Because I’ve had so much happiness from `Hello Dolly’ through the years, I never expected to have this new layer of excitement."
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Details Complete Episode Guide: Episode 4x01, Guide

Original Airdate: 1/31/08
Written by: Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse
Directed by: Jack Bender Flash Forward Information Flash Forward Character: Hurley
Flash Forward Highlights: In his father’s Camaro, Hurley runs from the cops through the streets of L.A. Jack sees him on the news.

Hurley is caught and tries to run on foot, but they grab him. He says, "Don’t you know who I am? I’m part of the Oceanic Six."

Hurley is interrogated by Big Mike. When Mike walks out of the room, Hurley sees an ocean in the window and Charlie swims up and shows Hurley his hand that says, "Not Penny’s boat." When Charlie touches the window, the glass breaks and water rushes in. Hurley yells for help and when Mike comes in, there is no water in the room and the window is normal.

Hurley is thankful when Mike puts him in Santa Rosa Mental Hospital. A man who claims to be from Oceanic Airways visits Hurley there. Hurley gets suspicious when the man asks about other people on the island. He asks for a business card, but Matthew Abbadon doesn’t have any and Hurley freaks out, calling for the nurse.

Later, Hurley sees Charlie and Charlie tells him that "they need him". Hurley counts to five and when he opens his eyes, Charlie is gone.

Jack visits Hurley in the hospital and wants to know if Hurley is going to spill their secret, but Hurley doesn’t answer him. Hurley apologizes for going with Locke instead of Jack when they were on the island. Island Highlights The main group prepares to head back to the beach to meet Naomi’s freighter. Jack realizes that Naomi has snuck away. He and Rousseau go to find her, but she tricked them into following the wrong trail.

Kate does find Naomi and convinces her that it wasn’t Kate’s group who threw the knife at her. Naomi covers for the survivors by not telling the freighter people about her knife wound. Naomi dies.

Those on the beach find out that Charlie died. Desmond tells them about Charlie’s final message and they set off to warn Jack that the people on the freighter are not who they say they are. Hurley gets separated from the group and ends up at Jacob’s cabin, where he sees a man sitting in a rocking chair and then someone looks out at him and he runs off, screaming. Locke finds him and together they go to find Jack.

When all the groups meet up, Locke tries to convince everyone to hide from the freighter people at the Barracks. Some go with Locke, including Hurley, Claire, Rousseau, Ben, and Sawyer, while some stay with Jack, including Kate, Rose, and Bernard.

A man parachutes from a helicopter and seeing Jack and Kate says, "Are you Jack?"

Next Highlight > Episode 4x2

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Robin Thicke’s wife, Paula Patton, is a film actor who appeared in Outkast’s . Robin Thicke was nominated for Male Artist of the Year.

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Gary Dourdan, Robert David Hall, George Eads, Marg Helgenberger, William Petersen, Jorja Fox, Paul Guilfoyle and Eric Szmanda star in "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"

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