Anne Pilaf gave a pretty good performance in the original "Dragon Ball."

Pictured: puppet for the reboot of "A Scare at Bedtime."

Catholicism is the science religion. Even its mysticism (speaking as a liberal Catholic believer I think it's fair to call it mysticism) is somewhat scientific and formula based, as opposed to the random "God Works in Mysterious Ways" theology of Protestant and especially Evangelical mysticism.

Despite Santa winning the popular vote, Frosty was elected Christmas King.

Look up the book (or better, the stage show) "Fun Home" to see the version of the story you're looking for.

TRUE SHOWBIZ TALES #27: in 2011 I was hired to perform in "A Musical Christmas Carol." Sudden unavailability of the rights after the show was cast but before it could begin rehearsal led our producers to get the rights to the musical version of "It's A Wonderful Life."

I can't help but see this film as "Fun Home for a world that wasn't ready for Fun Home yet."

TSO is the only really popular English-language offshoot of the most popular form of non-English musical theatre: loud, bombastic, rock-operatic stories of nearly cosmic mystical scale, in a musical style mostly influenced by hard rock, Frank Wildhorn and Les Miserables.

And it has either Hollywood legend Natalie Wood, or Internet legend Mara Wilson!

CORN ON! THE COB! CORN ON! THE COB!

I finished Shakespeare! Finally! He slowed down a good bit at the end, with his collaborative efforts taking up more and more of his output. The final play, "The Two Noble Kinsmen," seemed like Shakespeare trying to rewrite his own past, riffing on "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" from a more experienced standpoint and…

They've already pulled the "crucified Scarecrow" image, which I think is a minor incident in the book and is a very major plot point in the much more popular musical.

Well, given that she runs a prestigious sex club slash erotic theatre event, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump is a Paltrow customer.

Then again, an African protosocialist philosophy of collectivism is a left field choice for an OS name too.

Nah, Cooper makes a little more sense. He's strongly in the American Protestant tradition- he never preaches or proselytizes per se, but just about everything he does has an undercurrent of "the battle between Good and Evil," sometimes explicitly God and Satan, to it. And Cooper's devils never win.

It's funny how the most decadent or outré British performers are often rather conservative personally. David Bowie's somewhat pantheistic religious beliefs were probably the most unconventional thing about his personal ideologies (post unfortunate Nazi period), and Elton John, for being a famous gay rock star whose…

"One glance was all it took/She gave me the Innsmouth Look."

Simple man, my ass.

Enjoy the "Silence."

Just sit back and "enjoi" the experience.