The dead not only speak, their lips move....

Marilyn Monroe apparently singing a Dido song could be one of the attractions of the Siggraph computer graphics show. The clip has been ceated by Tony Ezzat, a graduate student at MIT in Boston, and has been talked about for a while. Unfortunately the AP story doesn't provide a link to any sort of clip, nor does Ezzat's home page. An earlier take on the story, published by MIT's local paper, The Boston Globe, mentions a clip, but it may not be in the archive -- and now the archive is chargeable, I'm not going to pay $2.50 to find out. The MIT press release is actually a more interesting read and does include an illustration of a "synthetic mouth", but again, no video. I'll post a link if one turns up.... Of course, most UK inhabitants have already seen mouth movements faked very very unconvincingly in a series of TV ads for financial services.