• NPR’s Fresh Air has an interview with Andrew Stanton, director of Wall-E (which I loved!) Give a listen to hear him talk about the inspiration he finds in everyday objects.

• Also on a Wall-E related note, apparently folks are all a twitter about new I-Phone problems, while one Wall-E fan sees a problem with all the commotion.

takepart to learn how you can recycle your dead Apple products.

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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

TakePart Gang:

Arrested in Development by Wendy Cohen

Is Google Making Us Dumber? by Blair Golson

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Nicole Hughes:

Top 5 Ways to Green Your July 4th

Greenopia: Eco-Guides For Your City

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Andy Kondrat:

Hypermiling Contest Winner Gets 124 Miles to the Gallon

Rise in Fuel Prices May Lead to Dirtier Energy Sources

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Jon Popham:

Red Tide in Yellow Sea Threatens Olympics

Mercedes-Benz Ditching Gasoline Cars by 2015

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Giulia Rozzi:

46664 Concert: Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela

Denise Richards Likes to Share

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Gina Telaroli:

Top 10 Movies for the 4th of July: For Patriots and Cynics!

The Radical and Beautiful Journey of Wall-E

Going into Wall-E on Sunday I knew a few things.

1) It was a Pixar film, meaning beautiful animation and cute characters

2) It was an eco-parable. On purpose I didn’t read much about the film, but I knew that is was somehow supposed to bring up the earth.

3) I would probably like it because I like things about robots.

When I left Wall-E all my thoughts (while true) had been turned upside down as I realized I had just seen a politically radical Disney film! And more than that it was chock full of cinematic references!

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Social Action + Cinema Videos of the Day:

1) Burma: It Can’t Wait- Myanmar Celebrity Campaign PSA Montage

For the Cinema YouTube Video of the Day, Click here >>>

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Father’s Day is quickly approaching so for the next few days leading up to the Sunday celebration, I’m going to do little profiles on my favorite movie dads - and by favorite I don’t necessarily mean the “best” by conventional standards. On Sunday I’ll compile them into a easily digestible Top 10 List (with new numbers). For now, here’s my one of my all time favorite movie dads:

Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter

He may have married into the family, but Preacher Powell is one of the most terrifying and yet captivating fathers I have ever seen on on film. His quest to find out where an his prison mate (who gets killed) hid the money he stole leads Powell to the Harper family, where he marries the new widow and in turn terrorizes the children with his screwed up version of Christianity. The use of shadow and music are also outstanding and hypnotic in the best way possible.

takepart and how children can get positive influences in their lives and click click to see the film’s theatrical trailer

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People tend to either love or hate Bill Maher - likewise I’m sure people will either love his new film, a sarcastic examination of religion:

What do you think?

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Chris Hedges (along with Laila al-Arian) has a new book out, Collateral Damage, America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians. It takes the voices of soldiers and veterans of the Iraq War and tells of their experiences with American war protocol as it relates to civilians in Iraq.

Hedges has a great piece up on TomDispatch that is adapted from the introduction to his book, the piece is called “Collateral Damage : What It Really Means When America Goes to War” and is something everyone should read:

The war in Iraq is now primarily about murder. There is very little killing. The savagery and brutality of the occupation is tearing apart those who have been deployed to Iraq. As news reports have just informed us, 115 American soldiers committed suicide in 2007. This is a 13% increase in suicides over 2006. And the suicides, as they did in the Vietnam War years, will only rise as distraught veterans come home, unwrap the self-protective layers of cotton wool that keep them from feeling, and face the awful reality of what they did to innocents in Iraq.

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It’s National Poetry Month. Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month (NPM) brings together publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools, and poets around the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture.

What I like about poetry is the vast definition of what makes a collection of words poetic. I like how poetry is found in the silliness of Shel Silverstein, in the deeply moving Maya Angelou, and in the innovative and lyrical Saul Williams (see the clip below). All of these artists take feelings and thoughts that seem unexplainable and translate them into something beautiful.

Poets.org has a great list of the top 30 ways to celebrate National Poetry Month, here are my favorite 5 from their list.

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