Check out my "Friday Flicks" column, on Phoenix Magazine online, with reviews this week of the musical Stuck and of Wild Nights with Emily, featuring Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson. Also check out my theatre review of Rochester Nights, the inaugural production of Theatre Upstairs here in Phoenix.
A pal recently asked if I was aware that James Mason had once appeared on a Sesame Street special, in which he had played an Egyptian demon. Indeed I was not, and it strikes me that when any two of the categories "Sesame Street" "James Mason" and "Egyptian demon" are present it's interesting, but when all three are present it's pretty much must-see TV. So check out this clip, from the 1983 special Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about six minutes in.
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Friday, April 19, 2019
Thursday, February 6, 2014
IN A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN
Happy birthday to the great Jules Verne!
It's been easy for me to remember that February 8 is Verne's birthday since I noticed it in his bio page in the back of some Classics Illustrated comic as a kid, and was filled with bitter envy of my friend Mike, who shared that birthday. Had I known in those days that I share a birthday with Leonard Nimoy, it might have lessened my envy somewhat.
Anyway...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...in Verne's honor let's give the nod to that terrifying sea titan, the giant squid from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, as spectacularly depicted in Disney's fine 1954 adaptation...
...or on the cover of the album which I played endlessly as a kid...
Check out Kirk Douglas singing "Whale of a Tale."
It's been easy for me to remember that February 8 is Verne's birthday since I noticed it in his bio page in the back of some Classics Illustrated comic as a kid, and was filled with bitter envy of my friend Mike, who shared that birthday. Had I known in those days that I share a birthday with Leonard Nimoy, it might have lessened my envy somewhat.
Anyway...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...in Verne's honor let's give the nod to that terrifying sea titan, the giant squid from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, as spectacularly depicted in Disney's fine 1954 adaptation...
...or on the cover of the album which I played endlessly as a kid...
Check out Kirk Douglas singing "Whale of a Tale."
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