It's not just that he was unaware, if he even was. It's more that he came from an era where such recordings were sadly not uncommon, and made a small niche genre: "classically-trained actor recites poetry or lyrics." Fellow stage veteran Sebastian Cabot did even more pretentious takes on the whole thing.
History has…

The accordion is forever going to be one of those instruments that I can play passably but not correctly- those buttons befuddle my piano brain. But professional players can do the impossible- play a full piano arrangement with the accordion. Check out this guy playing difficult piano showpiece "Hungarian Rhapsody" on…

No, Thor is A God. Ben Jakob Grimm is A Thing.

Who could forget Batman's most memorable nemesis, Gormenghast?

For Your Consideration: 19 of the best demigods in popular culture. They're half mortal, they're half human, but they're all right by us.

AV Club: The Internet, but for cowards.

True Showbiz Tales #17: Either you instinctively get the flair good fight choreography requires, or you don't. I've worked with many fight directors, and most of them were solid, if a little wooden or workmanlike.

It's all athleticism on display. I think that's why, if you watch shows like "America's Got Talent," many of the best-scoring dance troupes are not only taking inspiration from the street dance traditions but from Asian action cinema, especially wuxia and wire-fu. It opened up a whole different visual language and…

What are your essential summer ALBUMS?

Will it include increasingly blatant pansexual double entendres, BDSM imagery and smash cuts to a pair of lascivious lips, like Sam Mendes's "Cabaret" reboot (which was so successful it ultimately revised the whole cultural image of the show from the award-winning movie version)?

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Oh, F*R*I*E*N*D*S?

That's my favorite part of the second season so far: the reveal of how far the "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" process goes. Fsociety's attempt to liberate the world from unfettered capitalism and debt slavery hasn't made things much worse for the rich, but has massively inconvenienced the poor. You just…

It's like the classic Joker versus Red Skull quip: "I may be a criminal, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal!"

True Showbiz Tales #16: The most talented music director I've ever worked with is a little person, Josh Walker. When I took my last musical to the New York Musical Festival, my composer immediately became enamored of the extremely vivacious and personable Walker. I had initially had some qualms, because the score was…

Isn't it "Walking in Greendale?"

Prince's music may not draw too heavily on Elvis, but his whole affect, demeanor and lifestyle are drawn from Presley and the myth surrounding him.

The Korean Horror Comic!

I hope it remains functional as a recording studio. Much as a "Graceland of Prince" sounds cool, a combination working recording studio and museum sounds much more interesting, and if it's soundproofed and secured well enough it would be very cool to get to see the recording process in the flesh.

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