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This has been an interesting week, on so many levels. I'm desperately trying to finish a couple of short stories for the Tennessee Williams Festival deadline, but have found myself distracted. Gee, that NEVER happens. These distractions, though, are different. Indeed to call them distractions is to demean the profundity of the ideas. For years now, nearly all the years of the Bush presidency, I have...
Why aren't there more science fiction stage plays? Is it the difficulty of doing special effects on stage, or the feeling that SF isn't serious enough for a Tennessee Williams-esque drama? Discover... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
We have been in Egypt for an entire week now. But first back to Maroc for a moment. Tangiers gets a bad rap... everyone and the guidebook told us to expect a seedy place with not much to offer except the ferries to Spain. But it was very nice. The beach the scene the medina. We were there for the last day of Ramadan and splurged and went to a bar for one very strong Vodka tonic and a beer f
Daniel Mendelsohn is in Paris this week, and he's reading at the Village Voice tonight (at 7 pm), from his latest book, How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken.The title, he explains, comes from a stage...
Alfred Nobel father of the Nobel Prize in literature invented dynamite. And this past week, the top member of the jury in that competition lit a few fuses and set off some charges. Horace Engdahl said American writers are "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture" and that drags down the quality of their writing. He added that the "ignorance" of American writers is "restraining."
Vice Presidential candidates will have their first chance to face-off in person tonight, during the VP debate at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. The debate hosting honors have been Wash U’s for every election since 1992. While the facts being shared by Joe Biden and Sarah Palin might be, well, debatable - here are some [...]
I was at a press junket for one of Paul Newman's less memorable movies, and during the round-table interview, a woman from a Japanese publication asked him, in halting English, "What do you see for the future?" It was...
R.I.P. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will be having a 24-hour Paul Newman marathon on Sunday, October 12th to pay tribute to the great actor. So if you want to get your Paul Newman fix and pay tribute the schedule...
Yup, that's the big important date to remember, when TCM will devote its full Sunday schedule to Paul Newman classics, including...Cool Hand Luke (1967), Somebody up There Likes Me (1956) Torn Curtain (1966), Exodus (1960) Hud (1963), and his...
Remembering Paul NewmanRansom Riggs thought the best way to remember Paul Newman would be through some of his great performances -- which, conveniently, YouTube has plenty of. Here are a few of our favorites.
A couple of years ago I was chatting with a mother and her young child at a performance at the San Diego Old Globe. The play was August Wilson's Two Trains Running, not an easy play for a person of...