But he has an alternate or rival, Bialybog, who was the god of good in opposition to him. And as far as I know, Bialybog is not synchronized with Yahweh/Christian God, he's just another pagan deity.

Best recurring theme through the King universe: demons are forever stuck a few decades in the past. Flagg, Pennywise, the Man in the Black Suit and others are always dressed a decade or two out of fashion.

Not so much Jackson as Andy Warhol.

Ah! This fills in a pop culture reference I always wondered about. The obscure musical "Homeless" has the traitorous villain, who thinks he is smarter and more cultured than he is, sing "What makes a man, what possibly can/Make him go all Brutus and Judas and… Lando Calrissian?"

"Monkeybone" is the anti-"Beetlejuice." They both have essentially the same pitch:
"Quirky black comedy sends the spirit of an artist back and forth between the lands of the living and the dead as they seek to escape the mayhem of a poltergeist-like agent of chaos unleashed into the real world. Corpses, weird art and…

Sounds like a precursor to his American Dad role, which trades on his iconic voice but as a charismatic idiot.

South Park's take is surprisingly complex. Jesus is a good man, probably the Messiah as he claims, but is cold, distant and not terribly concerned despite his overall benevolence. Satan, on the other hand, is evil by his nature, but not a terribly bad guy overall. He's trying to be better than he is, while allowing…

Woods gets the tone of that film more than anybody else, and I wouldn't be surprised if the film got rewritten around him to some extent: "Hercules" is less about the adventures of a mythological figure than it is about the cult of celebrity having little to do with if a person is good or not.
Hades stands out…

As opposed to Baptist crazy?

That's one of my favorite bits in the film: they blended the South Park actors' voices with professional singers, almost seamlessly. Look for the point where Satan's voice stops being the usual actor and becomes Michael McDonald, then again when Gregory the Revolutionary becomes Broadway star Howard McGillin.

There's even a remake starring the cast.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was a bitchin' McTwist into Superman on a ramp over Golgotha.

NRA issues statement: "We at the NRA believe guns aren't for n*****s, guns are, y'know, FOR n*****s."

Who is Dawes?
Why should we love him?
The other two questions are irrelevant.

Did you get to see it? I heard the clips and had mixed reactions but I want to hear the whole thing before judging.

Easily my favorite book-related touch of the movie musical: Monsieur Thenardier speaks the same middle-class British accent as everyone else, until he puts on a fake French accent in character as "Monsieur Thenardier," pointing up that the character is a manipulator, a master of disguise, and potentially not even a…

Valjean represents the New Testament and the doctrine of "faith and works" as redemptive. Javert represents the Old Testament, and specifically the legalistic Talmudic interpretation of Judeo-Christianity that focuses less on morality and more on rules and regulations.

Best Les Mis I ever saw onstage was a medium-sized hybrid equity theatre, which decided to cast the leads with rock singers instead of opera or MT. It was raw, it was energetic, and it brought a new vitality to the material…
But unfortunately I saw the understudy for Enjolras. In a traditional, semi-operatic…

Les Mis walks a tightrope- it's a pop-opera that technically calls for Josh Grobanesque vocal chops, but it's also a street story full of twisted, grotesque and broken characters. Cast the voices too pristine and the characters lose their edge. Cast the voices to match the characters, and the music loses its beauty.
Hu…

American Maid is a much better title, and Die Fledermaus gets genius points, but Die Fledermaus's whole character is how much of a non-character he is. He's dull, apathetic, cowardly and powerless, without any of those things being really pointed. "Batman sucks" is the whole joke.
Batmanuel, on the other hand, is a…