At their blog, Tom Alberta writes about the Great Gonzo, Queerness and Jean-Francois Lyotard: “It’s not exactly a secret: Queers are sneaky. Traditionally deprived of role models who think and act like us, we have become experts in the art of subverting characters in nominally ‘wholesome’ media. Everybody’s […]
Hey, you can watch a little documentary about the making of The Muppet Christmas Carol right here. It includes interviews with the Great Gonzo, Michael Caine, Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Rizzo the Rat, Brian Henson, Frank Oz, and more.
“We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.”—Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Case of Identity.” When I wrote about Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder, I wrote that […]