The Media Knack and How to Get It

by | Dec 18, 2008 | The Public Humanist

Up until ten years ago I used to get a phone call every week from aspiring filmmakers or parents of aspiring filmmakers (or were they aspiring to be parents of filmmakers?) asking me if their talented son or daughter should go to film school to become another...

Mistah Kurtz

by | Dec 18, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal

T.S. Eliot: Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy IWe are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper togetherAre quiet and meaninglessAs wind in dry grassOr rats’ feet over...

Not-So-Virgin Mary

by | Dec 18, 2008 | Cherchez La Femme

Playboy Mexico's December issue features a sexy and nude Virgin Mary on the cover. They recently issued an apology, but i can't help but think someone had to have seen the potential for controversy coming, especially considering that Roman Catholics make up...
Literary Dance

Literary Dance

by | Dec 18, 2008 | Stage

Images associated with ballet—lithe, tutu-clad dancers and elaborate, evocative set design—are distinctly rooted in Romantic artistic traditions, and some of the world's most iconic ballets are derived from definitive Romantic texts (The Nutcracker was...
It's a Wonderful… Play?

It's a Wonderful… Play?

by | Dec 18, 2008 | Stage

A fixture of the holiday entertainment season is those perennial reruns of It's a Wonderful Life. The beloved movie has now found its way onto the stage, in not one but two quite different dramatizations. One of them fills the stage with 53 performers, and one...