The Benefits of Biopics . With James Mangold’s Dylan biopic currently shooting in New York with the Bobster’s blessing; and four different Beatle biopics greenlit for Sam Mendes; and Michael Jackson’s cousin Jaafar playing the King of Pop in a coming Lionsgate production; and Coleman Domingo directing, co-writing and starring in a musical based […]
The Benefits of Biopics
March 30th, 2024 · 8 Comments · Movies
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The Play’s The Thing
April 30th, 2021 · 2 Comments · New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
The Play’s The Thing 113 different Playbills that survived. An approximate history of my life in theater audiences . . . Some of the highlights . . . which you can see the Playbills of in chronological order starting at the top . . . Mousetrap — London — 1972 — the longest running play […]
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Tom Wolfe Made Me Cry
June 17th, 2018 · 9 Comments · Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me
Tom Wolfe Made Me Cry . We’ve had a flood of famous & important people dying the last few years. 2016 was the recent one most think of as the mass kill-off year that had us all praying for it to end — which it did, sadly, in November, with democracy and decency being cremated […]
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Shakespeare’s Globe Adventure
March 29th, 2014 · 17 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
“The Taming of The Shoobeedoobie” . . “Next stop, Shakespeare’s Globe,” says the driver downstairs on the red double-decker bus winding its way through the narrow South Bank streets of London. I went early so I could do the official tour of the theater, and of course the guide was extremely well-versed, among other things […]
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