Well, I haven’t heard Adam Sandler’s Chanukah Song yet – the Festival of Lights starts at sunset on Saturday, December 8th – but I did hear a rant about the War on Christmas on the radio the other day.
Yep, it’s that time of year again. Hallmark Channel has preempted Little House On The Prairie for sickly sweet (and cheaply made) movies with a Christmas theme. Wal-Mart and Target are pushing black Friday – great name for a villain, by the way – and have introduced something called pre-black Friday. Christmas catalogs have been smushed into my mailbox, and the department store halls are beginning to be decked with boughs of holly, fa-la-la-la, la-la-la-la I’ve even caught some Christmas commercials on the TV (although the deluge is yet to come.)
So this year ye olde editor Mike Gold and Big Kahuna Glenn Hauman decided to get in on the act...
Yep, it’s that time of year again. Hallmark Channel has preempted Little House On The Prairie for sickly sweet (and cheaply made) movies with a Christmas theme. Wal-Mart and Target are pushing black Friday – great name for a villain, by the way – and have introduced something called pre-black Friday. Christmas catalogs have been smushed into my mailbox, and the department store halls are beginning to be decked with boughs of holly, fa-la-la-la, la-la-la-la I’ve even caught some Christmas commercials on the TV (although the deluge is yet to come.)
So this year ye olde editor Mike Gold and Big Kahuna Glenn Hauman decided to get in on the act...
- 11/19/2012
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
While I was in Philadelphia, there was a presentation in the Constitution Museum on Ancient Rome and the comparisons to America (some of these similarities were a result of the fact that the Founding Fathers were using the Roman Republic as both an example and a warning), and the Franklin was having a special exhibition on Cleopatra. As a result, I really felt the urge to watch "Rome" again and reread Margaret George's The Memoirs of Cleopatra, which is one of my favorite novels, but instead opted to read an actual history.
Overall, this book does a good job of explaining the historical context and politics of the time. She spends a few chapters breaking down the situation in Egypt during the reign of the Ptolemies, and then uses several chapters to discuss the way the Roman Republic had been changing in the past few decades, and how great...
Overall, this book does a good job of explaining the historical context and politics of the time. She spends a few chapters breaking down the situation in Egypt during the reign of the Ptolemies, and then uses several chapters to discuss the way the Roman Republic had been changing in the past few decades, and how great...
- 8/16/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Angelina Jolie is set to star in a new big-screen version of the Cleopatra story.
The film will be adapted from Stacy Schiff's biography Cleopatra: A Life, due out in November.
Producer Scott Rudin bought the film rights to the book back in 2006, says USA Today, and is developing the film "for and with Jolie."
Pulitzer Prize-winning Schiff is aiming to dispel the notion of the legendary queen as simply a seductress, instead focusing on her skills as a military architect and firm ruler.
Schiff points out in the book: "We have very little idea what she actually looks like". But she backed the idea of Jolie in the role, saying: "Physically, she's the perfect look."
Cleopatra - who was Egypt's last pharaoh - was previously seen on the big screen in the 1963 multiple Oscar-winning epic starring Elizabeth Taylor.
It was so expensive for its time ($44million then,...
The film will be adapted from Stacy Schiff's biography Cleopatra: A Life, due out in November.
Producer Scott Rudin bought the film rights to the book back in 2006, says USA Today, and is developing the film "for and with Jolie."
Pulitzer Prize-winning Schiff is aiming to dispel the notion of the legendary queen as simply a seductress, instead focusing on her skills as a military architect and firm ruler.
Schiff points out in the book: "We have very little idea what she actually looks like". But she backed the idea of Jolie in the role, saying: "Physically, she's the perfect look."
Cleopatra - who was Egypt's last pharaoh - was previously seen on the big screen in the 1963 multiple Oscar-winning epic starring Elizabeth Taylor.
It was so expensive for its time ($44million then,...
- 6/12/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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