At Comicbook.com, Spencer Perry talks about the history of King Kong, who exactly holds the rights to the character and how that plays out in movies and musicals. “To fully appreciate the complexities of the complicated rights situation to Kong, we have to go all the way back […]
The Library of America blog has an essay and an excerpt from Joan Didion’s “L.A. Noir.” “Around Division 47, Los Angeles Municipal Court, the downtown courtroom where, for eleven weeks during the spring and summer of 1989, a preliminary hearing was held to determine if the charges brought […]
“It was a perfect plot to kill Batman. There was no pressure put on anyone. No one even complained until Harvey Dent started asking questions. What the prosecution is doing is a disgrace to Gotham’s criminal justice system. No one has been victimized by the criminal justice system […]
“The Battle over the Sea-Monkey Fortune” involves “Big Time Toys,” brine shrimp, and the daughter of an opera maestro, Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut. Braunhut also starred in the 1967 film, Venus In Furs. (via PeeWee.com)
At Indiewire, Laura Berger interviews directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos about their documentary, Making A Murderer. (via The MUFF Society)
At Bitch Magazine, Tammy Oler writes about the history and legal life of Jennifer Walters, attorney and She-Hulk. (Thanks, Mark!)
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