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Book Reviews: OTHER PEOPLE’S CRAZY / OTHER PEOPLE’S DRAMA (Gregory Fletcher)
GO, BRANDON! If you have a young teen in your life, or if you hanker after some inspirational reading about said demographic, you’ll love Gregory Fletcher’s two-book series, Other People’s Crazy and Other People’s Drama. Protagonist Brandon Filips, age 15 and a high school sophomore when Other People’s Crazy begins, is the biggest kid in…
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Extras: HOW TO PERFECT YOUR SKILLS WITH TOP CRAPS BOOKS
When people think of casino games, they typically think of poker, blackjack, roulette, and slots. All of them are quite popular and interesting in their own right, but they’re not the only ones available on casino platforms. Craps is another popular casino game that has been around for some time. It’s a table game with…
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Extras | Books: ADAPTING A BOOK TO A SCREENPLAY
There has never been a better time to think about turning your book into a screenplay. It doesn’t matter if whether you’re a professional or an amateur writer, the world of adaptation has broken wide open and anything goes! Some of the greatest films in history have been book adaptations, such as Stephen King’s The…
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Book Recommendation: I’LL DRINK TO THAT! BROADWAY’S LEGENDARY STARS, CLASSIC SHOWS, AND THE COCKTAILS THEY INSPIRED (Laurence Maslon, Author; Joan Marcus, Photographer)
CHEERS! If there’s anything better than a cocktail before or after a Broadway show, it’s a cocktail in a Broadway show. So, I’d like to propose a toast … slide your coffee table book to the side (mine is of Broadway posters), and make room for that new cocktail table book: I’ll Drink to That!,…
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Recommended Book: GIVE MY REGARDS TO NOWHERE (Richard Engling, Polarity Ensemble Books)
BACKSTAGE COMEDIC CAPERS Chicago “storefront” theaters have produced some of the most amazing productions that I have ever seen. Usually started by a ragtag group of friends or a brave individual to experiment and produce works on a budget, some companies move forward to Actors’ Equity status (Steppenwolf, Steep), or have a great run only…
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Book Review: LATE BLOOMER BABY BOOMER (Steve Milliken)
I NEVER KNEW COMING OUT WAS SO GAY, AS IN LIGHTHEARTED, CAREFREE AND FUN …AND GAY I thoroughly enjoyed this hilarious and heartfelt book. Gay or straight, Steve Milliken’s self-deprecating humorous essays (38 in all!) have universal appeal as he manages to find laughs while naïvely weaving the complications of life both teaching in the…
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Extras: DAZZLE, MINGLE AND ENJOY: 6 TIPS FOR COSPLAYERS ATTENDING A COMIC CON FOR THE FIRST TIME
Dazzle, Mingle and Enjoy: 6 Tips for Cosplayers Attending a Comic Con for the First Time Without a doubt, comic conventions (or comic con) are the biggest events pop culture aficionados can and should join. Comic cons are packed with different activities and events that will surely delight fans. You get to meet and greet…
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Extras / Film / Books: ALL-TIME FAVORITE BOOK-TO-MOVIE ADAPTATIONS FOR LITERATURE STUDENTS TO WATCH
All-Time Favorite Book-to-Movie Adaptations For Literature Students to Watch If you’re a literature student, you know that one of the best ways to procrastinate is by getting lost in a good book. But what happens when your all-time favorite book is made into a movie? Suddenly, you have the perfect excuse to put off writing…
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Extras/Book/Film: EXAMINING THE GREAT GATSBY: MOVIE VS. BOOK
EXAMINING THE GREAT GATSBY: MOVIE VS. BOOK The Great Gatsby is a novel that has been made into two movies; one in 1926 and another in 2013. Both movies are based on the book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. While the book is considered to be a classic, the movies have received mixed reviews. The…
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Book: WHEN BROADWAY WAS BLACK: THE TRIUMPHANT STORY OF THE ALL-BLACK MUSICAL THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (Out in Paperback February 7, 2023)
I’M JUST WILD ABOUT WHEN BROADWAY WAS BLACK On May 23, 1921, a fast-moving, groundbreaking jazz musical danced into New York City – and by the end of its triumphant run, its Black creators were responsible for the most unlikely entertainment success story of the 1920s, a watershed moment for racial representation in America. With…
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6 BENEFITS OF STUDYING ABROAD
You’ve probably heard of someone going to continue their education abroad and wondered, “What’s the point, we have great colleges here?” What you might not know are the benefits such students enjoy. In the recent pre-pandemic years, there has been a rise in the rate at which students opt to study abroad. It means that…
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THE LEGACY OF JEKYLL & HYDE
There have been many great adaptions of popular novels in several forms of media and entertainment but non likely come more popular with greater inspiration and evolution than Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with the fictional novel still remaining as a household name over 200 years since its…
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GUIDE TO WRITING A THEATER SCRIPT
If you like the world of theater and are amazed by the classics usually represented on stage, think that there are also current works that even we can write ourselves. It would help if you had some imagination, desire, and this guide of steps to write a script for theater. Theater scripts are pretty different…
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Book Review: ARTISTS’ FILM (David Curtis)
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? NOT MUCH I’ll begin as author David Curtis does, with a quotation from Elizabeth Bowen: “I go to the cinema for any number of different reasons: At random, here are a few of them: I go to be distracted (or ‘taken out of myself’); I go when I don’t think; I go…
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Book Review: FILMQUAKE: THE MOST DISRUPTIVE FILMS IN CINEMA (Ian Haydn Smith)
CELLULOID CULTURE SHIFTERS In his recent history, A Chronology of Film, Ian Haydn Smith brilliantly gave us a wide-ranging picture of worldwide cinematic development from its inception until the present day. In his new book FilmQuake: The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema he sets himself an even more daunting task; he limits himself to examining fifty…
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Film: WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS OF BLACK WIDOW? (Disney/Marvel)
SOME OF BLACK WIDOW’S PAST REVEALED Have you ever gone to a Marvel film knowing nothing about the characters’ backstory? The upcoming 2021 Black Widow movie, which opens in wide release from Disney on July 9, 2021 promises to shed light on the checkered past of Natasha Romanoff, a fan-favorite character from the Marvel Cinematic…
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Book Review: FROM CAMELOT TO SPAMALOT: Musical Retellings of Arthurian Legend on Stage and Screen (Megan Woller)
ART FOR ARTHUR’S SAKE It all started in 1485. In Le Morte d’Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory gathered the tales of King Arthur and his knights into a single work for the first time. As luck would have it, this coincided with the invention of the printing press, making Malory’s book one of the first ever…
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Book Review: ANNA HELD AND THE BIRTH OF ZIEGFELD’S BROADWAY (Eve Golden, Updated Edition)
HELD TO RANSOM! Before reading Eve Golden’s exuberant biography, what little I knew of Anna Held came from the 1936 biopic The Great Ziegfeld and the 1980 Broadway musical Tintypes. The Anna of the film appears to be a relatively accurate portrayal, somewhat marred by Luise Rainer’s relentlessly winsome (albeit Oscar-winning) performance. Tintypes dismisses Held…
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Book Review: THE BOYS NEXT DOOR (Dan Greenberger)
BOY, OH BOYS Hamburg, Germany, November 1960. Licensed sex workers are displaying their wares in shop windows on Herbertstrasse, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita is playing at the Kino, and German youth are discovering rock ‘n’ roll at that lowest of dives, the Kaiserkeller. Into this den of iniquity comes Alan Levy, nice Jewish boy from…
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Book Review: REFRAMING VIVIEN LEIGH: STARDOM, GENDER AND THE ARCHIVE (Lisa Stead)
LEIGHWARD “A consummate actress, hampered by beauty” is how George Cukor, the original Gone with the Wind director, described Vivien Leigh. Leigh is almost unique among movie stars (a label she detested) in that she was as celebrated on the stages of London and New York as on the cinema screens of the world. Best…
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