Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
To everyone who sent me a birthday greeting today: When I was much younger – perhaps in my pre- or early-teen years – I saw old reruns of The Jack Benny Show on TV. Benny would often recite the running gag about his age. You know the one – how he was continually turning 39. This comedy … Continue reading Age: It’s All Relative
This article contains major spoilers for the movies Gravity and Cast Away. If you haven't seen both films, you may not want to read it. Sandra Bullock floating in the absence of gravity in Gravity. Based on the trailer and preview clips I had seen, the title of the Alfonso Cuarón movie Gravity perplexed me. … Continue reading Movie Title Misdirection and Meaning: ‘Gravity’ and ‘Cast Away’
On October 24, 1938, playwright Howard E. Koch had less than a week to write the script for the next episode of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air. Producer John Houseman had given him the assignment: Dramatize H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds as a radio play. Koch knew he would have to … Continue reading Return to the Scene of the Martian Invasion
The past weekend the Jacob Javits Center hosted New York Comic Con, the East Coast's largest pop culture event run by the ReedPop division of Reed Elsevier. Early reports estimated this year's attendance at more than 130,000, putting the event on par with North America's premiere pop culture event, San Diego Comic-Con run by Comic-Con … Continue reading New York Comic Con 2013 and the Twin Peaks of Con Culture
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