The catch-22 is this: Gene WIlder's Willy Wonka is very much not a Roald Dahl character. He's in a different movie than everyone else, but it's such a good movie no one cares.
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A few years ago, when I was playing Keyboard 2 for "Young Frankenstein" in a high school's production, the director ordered a bunch of pizzas for the kids and the professional band, sat them all down and showed them the movie. Apparently, he was concerned by how few of them had seen it, and even more concerned that…
What I really want, stupid as it is, is being able to project my pogeys back into augmented reality for cool Pokémon Snap style trick photos.
Allegedly the First Big Update is going to be trading and legendaries, estimated for winter this year based on that guy who hacked the code.
Wes Anderson? With Bill Murray as Otis, Jason Schwartzman as Ed Plum, Alec Baldwin as Jake Wexler and Anjelica Huston as Crow?
That's less of a cheap gag than it seems- Mel Brooks famously doesn't care how his musicals do critically or financially, he writes them because it keeps his mind sharp, he likes coming up with tunes and gags, and he enjoys this return to form from his pre-fame days when he wrote for musical revues. He actually HAS…
Who the dickens is Charles Dickens?
Mary Shelly? Gosh, she sounds smelly.
Harry Potter? What a rotter…
Jane Austen in the compost bin…
Charlotte Bronte? Do not wanty!
Ian McEwen? Ugh, I feel like spewin'.
William Shakespeare? Swilliam Shmakespeare…
Moby Dick – heh heh heh… easy, Grandma!
In my audition book, one of my go-to uptempo songs is "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." When I slated for audition, I used to list it as being from "Jersey Boys." Since Ledger's death, I almost always slate it as from "10 Things I Hate About You" in his memory.
I'm a vague acquaintance of film composer turned Broadway mainstay Marc Shaiman, and a few years ago they had a tribute to his work at Carnegie Hall. Most of the praise was lavished on "Hairspray" and "Catch Me If You Can," his most famous works, but they had the Mamushka number performed by Christian Borle of the NBC…
I think it's hard to film, because the twist would be awfully hard to depict on film without some very clever filming, acting and writing.
I wish they would do a new series of Schoolhouse Rock. I know Ahrens and Flaherty, the original composers, are actually hitting their peak right now with a ton of popular Broadway shows, and I'm sure there are other songwriters and composers who would have great fun writing catchy novelty songs that introduce…
Those were great. "Bruce Coville's Book of" this and that. That's where I got my first exposures to Ray Bradbury and his disciple Al Sarrantonio.
The potato tattoo is a reference to an obscure work by Ellen Raskin, who wrote bizarre, genre-bending YA novels in the 70s and presumably was a huge influence on Sachar, who wrote bizarre, genre-bending children's and YA novels a little later.
People who read Wayside School as kids were perfectly primed for things like Twin Peaks or Welcome to Night Vale as adults.
Monday warrior, mean, mean stride,
Tom Sawyer musical, mean, mean, pride.
She started in musical theatre: she's in the cult classic "Reefer Madness," and the decidedly un-classic "Tom Sawyer."
It's funny that no one since Jackie Chan, who was and is still HUGE, has really tried to be a likeable seriocomic actor with martial arts and stunt expertise. If I were Harry Shum, Jr.'s agent, I would tell him to parlay his mixed "Crouching Tiger 2" and "Glee" fame into doing a low-budget martial arts action comedy…
The Shanghai series was unexpected gold. I wish they would have made one more, dropping Wilson and Chan in the Gatsby era: Shanghai Society.
They didn't cancel the Tony Awards over "Hamilton," but they may as well have. The opening number was "Hamilton" themed. The closing number was deleted in favor of just performing another number from "Hamilton." And to give away the Best Musical award, Barbra Streisand came onstage in a Revolutionary War costume. (If…