Sandy is now supposedly no longer a hurricane, but we continue to get pounded here with wind-driven rain. On a night like this, I am reminded of the opening scene in The Bride of Frankenstein, where the weather howls outside while Percy Shelley and Lord Byron beg Percy’s wife Mary to tell more of her tragic monster’s tale…
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Joss Whedon takes a secular view of the Endtimes, but he arrives at the same place as those on the religious right, who welcome its coming.
“It’s a brand new day…”
P.S. Whedon’s comment about “ungoverned corporate privilege” has some irony to it, considering that his movie The Avengers grossed more than $1.5 billion before going to video, and yet Disney-Marvel has no money for Jack Kirby, without whom the Avengers wouldn’t exist. With Whedon signing to direct the Avengers sequel, I’d like to think he can bring some pressure to bear on the studio to propose a settlement with Kirby’s family.
You Don’t Own Me was #2 on the Billboard charts for three weeks in February 1964, and was held back from the top spot by the Beatles with I Want To Hold Your Hand.
Stephen Colbert was really ablaze last night. First, about the claims of foreign policy failure being leveled against the Obama administration for the tragic deaths in Libya at the American embassy…
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… and then Indiana Republican Richard Mourdock’s comment about rape.
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My own take on Mourdock’s opinion, which he insists is heartfelt and the result of lengthy consideration, is that his Christian thought process is seriously flawed, because it leads to the conclusion that the act of rape is of God and not Satan, which means that everything humans do must be from God. I was taught that most sinful acts do not come from Satan, but I would say that, according to Mourdock’s faith, rape should be one of them.
How far can a Beatles obsession take a fan in expressing his appreciation for the creativity of the Fabsters? In the hands of world-class craftsmen, very far.
Bravo to Turner Classic Movies for presenting the in-theater Frankenstein double feature. What the original 1931 Frankenstein lacks in pace, humor, and music is more than made up by James Whale’s incomparable 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein, featuring Franz Waxman’s famous, lavish score that was re-used by Universal many times, most notably for the Flash Gordon serials. The picture and sound quality for both movies is better than I’ve ever seen, and I assume the new Blu-ray releases are from the same sources.
