Legend has it that Sondheim turned in "Unworthy of your Love" to script writer John Weidman, and Weidman told him, "Steve, I asked for a ROCK song!" To which Sondheim allegedly replied, "This is the most rock song I have ever written, take it or leave it."

I read this in her voice.

Played, of course, by his younger brother James.

There already IS an American "Peep Show," and it's called "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." Sure, the first-person gimmick is gone, but the show's unique tone, pitch black sense of comedy and uniquely sunny disposition in the face of abject despair is a strong match for the British comedy.
Making "American Peep…

Jackin' it, jackin' it!

A subtext taken to absurd levels with the Disney version, might I add? Gaston may be a womanizing seducer, but he is mostly just in love with his own masculine form, and LeFou openly swoons over him.
If the Cocteau film is a surrealist nightmare about the horror of heterosexual intercourse, the Disney film is a parable…

That's mine too!

That was the I Scream truck.

There's a fantastic short story about this called "Safety Clowns" by Glen Hirshberg.

There is free sheet music, for baritone soloist and children's chorus. I'm not even kidding.

The ice cream truck in my neighborhood has always played a synthesized jingle of "Music Box Dancer" by Frank Mills. There's also a shave-ice truck that plays calypso music, usually Belafonte recordings.
My personal favorite, however, is an independent ice cream truck which circles the neighborhood where my director and…

SNAKE? SNAAAAAKE!

All of us except Uzo Aduba, who I still think is just a time-shifted classic period Whoopi Goldberg.

Batman being here makes sense to me, though: Superman is explicitly sci-fi, and can get ganked by magic the same as Kryptonite. But Batman has a long history of involvement with the supernatural as well as the pseudoscientific- R'as Al Ghul and Etrigan, in particular, have Batman ties strongly cemented by BTAS.
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Unfortunately, the play (and maybe more so the musical) have created a pop cultural image of Mame Dennis as an aging madcap, the ultimate fairy godmother for a nascent queer boy looking for a fabulous role model.
The book Mame is an immature, self-deluding, sexually voracious quasi-sociopath who believes that she is…

Jamie Lee Curtis fits the definition of "scream queen" as "horror movie heroine," but Linnea Quigley meets the definition as "gratuitous sex and violence fodder for B-horror films."
It sort of depends which way you want to define the term.

Ready for a "once you see, you can't unsee" moment? Below is one of Frank N. Furter's iconic monologues. Read it in your head in the voice of Kevin Spacey's Frank Underwood instead of Tim Curry, and it fits so well he will totally replace Curry in your head.

I'm now picturing Anakin as the "alligator arms" guy from the Geico commercial.

To be fair, the Jedi are implied to be their own thing, allied with the Republic but not an offshoot of it. Much like Jesuits and science, the Jesuits work alongside science but are not agents of science.

I love seeing Johnny the Homicidal Maniac get pop-culture attention. Boy, that takes me back to middle school SO fast, hiding the graphic novels in my bedroom and hoping I didn't get caught reading them.
Side note: for a really weird interpretation of Satan, think back on "Cow and Chicken," where the Devil was a petty,…