Monday, April 29, 2024

On the Other End of the Continuum, We Have The Comedy of Terrors

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The Comedy of Terrors . Dir. Jacques Tourneur. Perf. Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown, and Basil Rathb...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Shakespeare in FoxTrot's Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables

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Amend, Bill. Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables . Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2003. Welcome back for another FoxTrot Friday! Tod...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Macbeth? Meet Barry. Barry—Macbeth. . . . How the Dark Comedy Barry uses Shakespeare Successfully

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“Chapter Five: Do Your Job.” By Ben Smith. Perf. Bill Hader, Sarah Goldberg, D'Arcy Carden, and Henry Winkler. Dir. Hiro Murai.  Barry ....
Monday, April 22, 2024

Book Note: Mrs. Caliban

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Ingalls, Rachel. Mrs. Caliban . 1983. New York: New Directions, 2017. I can't recall precisely how this book came to my attention, but i...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Shakespeare in FoxTrot's His Code Name Was The Fox

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Amend, Bill. His Code Name Was The Fox . Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002. I've written about one comic from this volume before (for wh...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Book Note: Fahrenheit 451

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Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. I mentioned before  that I was reading or re-reading many of the works...
Monday, April 15, 2024

More Macbeth in The Simpsons? Yes, please! And then let's talk about whether it should be “hoist with his own petar” or “hoist with his own petard” for a good long while.

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“Funeral for a Fiend.” By Michael Price. Perf. Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria,...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Shakespeare in FoxTrot's Encyclopedias Brown and White

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Amend, Bill. Encyclopedias Brown and White . Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2001. It's been a while since our last Friday FoxTrot. Fortuit...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

A Quick Line from Romeo and Juliet in a Friends Episode

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“The One with the Screamer.” By Scott Silveri and Shana Goldberg-Meehan. Perf. Matt LeBlanc, Dina Meyer, and Reg Rogers. Dir. Peter Bonerz. ...
Monday, April 8, 2024

Shakespeare Puts Joey to Sleep in Friends

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“The One with the Donor.” By  Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen . Perf. David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc. Dir.  Ben Weiss .  Friends . Season 9, ep...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Book Note: The Two Noble Kinsmen

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Shakespeare, William, and John Fletcher. The Two Noble Kinsmen . Ed. Lois Potter. Walton-on-Thames: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1997. Arden Shak...