"Conform to the norm"? What norm? Characters on TV — and for much longer in films, plays, and novels — have been immensely varied. The TV landscape of the past 20 years has grown into a tremendous world of different, interesting, real people.

I'll bet the Buffy/Angel characters didn't get as many of those as a certain Soprano daughter. "Shut UP, Meadow!"

Yeah, I too thought those pictures above were of a dude.

My personal Jennifer Love Hewitt sensor is going off, reminding me that the AV Club reported on the Rotten Tomatoes version of this several years ago:
http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Loved the 80s music tonight! And the pastry-burglars, who peered curiously through the shop window and reminded me mostly of this:
http://i.imgur.com/zPL7LAV.jpg

OK, at this point, Bonnie and Clyde deserve a joint Emmy.

What a difference, in *type* of crazy, a space blanket makes!

Ernie, Ernie, Ernie! Yeah your boss is a dick, and just disrespected you a minute ago, but c'mon — you're seriously not going to pick up a phone *immediately* and call 911?

There is no comedy role that I love more than Garry Lejeune, and David Furr was the best Garry I've ever seen.

I'm going in May too! Roundabout has had some awesome revivals recently — I was lucky enough to see Noises Off and On The Twentieth Century, both very satisfying.

The song's final line "Krup you!" was a compromise, as Sondheim really wanted to be the first writer to put the word "fuck" on Broadway, but the authorities just weren't having it.

20 years? Don't know where you are, but the show gets produced by regional companies all over the place.

I don't think Sondheim asserts that filmmaking must be narrowly defined. If I recall correctly, he simply finds most Hollywood adaptations of stage musicals disappointing — including older classics like Music Man or Kiss Me Kate — because elements essential to a stage show don't work very well in a movie. The…

Just today I was reading Ethan Mordden's new book On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide, which, if you know Mordden's writings at all, you'll agree is a very appropriate title. If you like his style, which is always interesting, I recommend it. Similar to his sweeping single-volume Broadway history Anything Goes, this…

I think Sondheim's usual point on this matter — over many years of being interviewed with the same inevitable questions — is that the stage is a representative medium, but film is a realistic medium. The camera moves everywhere, the on-location shooting is a real place, real streets & buildings… On stage it's all a…

Some educational videos even get 600,000 views in a single week! https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Very well. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Teti is wearing the latest from the Disgruntled Male Public High School Teachers collection.

Using the web in the early days elicited a sense of excitement and possibility

I think they prefer my YouTube channel of wonderful jiggling-related music videos.