I was Bottom in a Midsummer production a couple of years ago, so I'm well aware of it. I'm also aware that it is risky to admit to playing that character on this site, based on other interpretations of bottom. Have mercy on me, AV Club.

I agree with you about the narrator's final words. It is reminiscent of the end of Lord of the Rings in this, and only this instance. In both works, it is apparent at the end that it is the end of an age, and some aspects of that age will never return. Certain Shakespeare comedies have that kind of bittersweet…

I think it is about the necessary abandoning of life that has to happen for something to become myth. The house probably could be found, but it would be some dilapidated landmark that bears little relation to the residence in the book. The weather is different. As Crowley puts it "Stories last longer, but only by…

I don't think that was the exact wording, but the impression I got was that Auberon had sex with Bruno. I think it is significant that, like Smokey's adultery, it barely registers in the world of these characters. It's not like anybody's f**king like bunnies in the book, but in terms of sexuality, little seems…

It helps if you picture Sophie Drinkwater as looking a little like Winnie Cooper.

The important question though is will Singer keep Mordred's nippled armor? Joel Schumacher kind of ruined that particular Boorman cinematic choice.

The Macchio movie, not the Spears one, of course…

I also shudder to say this, but Crossroads would make a much better movie-to-stage-musical adaptation than most of the films that make it, especially if you could get a Rock/Blues guy to do the score. Maybe Jack White has an itch to conquer Broadway.

IFC on demand is pay-per-view, but it is newer films, like regualar movies on demand. There's a Sundance on in my system's free movies on demand, but it is older films and Sundance channel original content.

Lovecraft, I'm a big fan of Hedwig, too. I guess I was thinking primarily of shows that cracked that glass ceiling mainstream. Also, the shows I mentioned retained more of a traditional musical structure, and grafts rock music (in varying degrees) on to that. Hedwig is as untraditional in its form as in its content.

I used to read White's reviews when I read the NY Press regularly, something I haven't done in a long time. I remember him as jumping through ridiculous hoops to praise anything by Stephen Spielberg and Brian DePalma, including the latter's "Mission to Mars" and "Snake Eyes", two of the dumbest movies I think I ever…

This was a terrific musical
Passing Strange and Spring Awakening were the modern age rock musicals that Rent wanted to be.

Possibly like touching metal, maybe?

Emmylou also has an incredibly good cover of "The Boxer", from "Roses in the Snow". Not a country song, per se, but a great example of taking a song from outside the genre and making it work in that context.

That adds a whole new level to David Henry Hwang's play, that's for sure.

Fine by me
I have about 15o pages to go.

Now I know that I logged into the AV Club and not Think Progress. Thanks guys.

Man, I thought I logged into Think Progress by mistake.

I'd totally see Jim Carrey as a tinkertoy building Howard Roark.

Maybe the widescreen DVD is a fake cropped full screen. Doesn't make much sense, though.