“Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ is published | January 1, 1818”–Historywill tell you all about it. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheusis published. The book, by 20-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world’s first science fiction novel. In Shelley’s tale...
For a man who once wrote the wondrous, engrossing music for The Lord of the Rings, one knows he can do better. Indeed, one knows that courtroom drama can be done better. Watch the recent National Treasure, starring Robbie Coltrane. All-in-all, Denial is a nicely put together legal ...
Ike & Tina, whose hits included “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” and “Proud Mary,” were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Tina, whose solo hits include the classic that gave this film its title, was inducted as a solo artist in 2021. Bassett did the honors at ...
In 1996, he wrote and starred in the comedy special "Jackie Mason at the London Palladium" (BBC). In 1988, he wrote and starred in the comedy special "The World According to Me." In 1962, he released his debut comedy album "I'm the Greatest Comedian in the World, ...
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For a man who once wrote the wondrous, engrossing music for The Lord of the Rings, one knows he can do better. Indeed, one knows that courtroom drama can be done better. Watch the recent National Treasure, starring Robbie Coltrane. All-in-all, Denial is a nicely put together legal ...
When he wrote story versions of the Mother Goose nursery rhymes in 1897,Wizard of Ozauthor L. Frank Baum retold ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ from a little boy’s perspective. The boy saw the cat having a mishap and panicking after getting stuck to a fiddle, the cow jumping over the reflection ...
Two names synonymous with the best of Broadway are Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the songs for "The Sound of Music," a smash hit later adapted into an award-winning film. Originally, producer Richard Halliday envisioned the show as a traditional play (sprinkled with the...
I made a pitch about Byzantine history, the editors liked the pitch, and I wrote a draft. Two drafts later, even cutting the things they asked me to cut and changing the things they asked me to change, it became clear that what I was trying to say wasn’t working for the forum as...