Authoritarian Agonistes: Son of Griff on ’71’s Scopophilic Supercops
In the 1970s, conservative American mythologies confronted historical realities. The Mai Lai massacre, the Kent…
Three Kinds Of Shakespearean
Shakespearean Dialogue This is the big one. Usually, whenever someone describes something as Shakespearean, they…
Year of the Month: THE BABY HUEY STORY — THE LIVING LEGEND
1971 was an extraordinary year in music history, as the creative explosion of the late…
Celebrating the Living: Cheryl Gates McFadden
If she’s credited as Cheryl McFadden, she’s generally doing choreography. If she’s credited as Gates…
Attention Must Be Paid: Ed Wynn
Strange to think that Ed Wynn only made twenty movies in his life, though I…
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Disney Byways: SCANDALOUS JOHN
An updating of Don Quixote with an old man who believes he’s a cowboy is…
Year of the Month: Quinn Bailey on THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
In the 1970s and ’80s, horror fiction came crawling back from the grave once again,…
SCENIC ROUTE: Mad Men – “They’re cool.” / “They don’t look cool.”
My definitive scene of Don Draper – the one that shows why I find him…
Celebrating the Living: Michael Dorn
Gene Roddenberry was a man of strange ideas—he was insistent, for example, that there would…
Attention Must Be Paid: Bea Tamargo
It is much harder to research women who worked in Disney animation than men. The…