Typically, TV crossover events involve shows that are in the same genre or franchise. Good examples would be Grey’s Anatomy, which shared a story with its own spinoff, Private Practice, or episodes of CSI that combined characters from that franchise’s various series. Accordingly, this TV season’s crossover between FOX’s Sleepy Hollow and Bones is a rare exception. Aside from their comedic undertones and procedural core, these two shows...
Post-Apocalyptic Recipes
Well done. You have not only survived the apocalypse but also ventured out into the unknown to restock your supplies. Grocery shopping has become a deadly game of Supermarket Sweep where contestants packing the most heat get the goods. You are learning to survive but are aware that the 24-hour supermarkets that once neatly stocked 40,000 of your favorite items are being overrun by...
Vampires and Zombies Eat Each Other on Spike’s Deadliest Warrior Season Finale
Perhaps the near ubiquity of vampires and zombies in popular culture of late has to do with the grim state of the world economy, the seeming overabundance of natural disasters, and our proximity to 2012. EVERYTHING is aligned against us and vampires and zombies personify an implacable universe feeding upon us, draining us of our vital fluids, energies, our very...
Edvard Munch’s The Scream To Be Sold At Auction
Sotheby’s has announced that Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream will lead its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 2 May 2012. The iconic work is one of the most instantly recognizable images in both art history and popular culture, perhaps second only to the Mona Lisa. The present version of The Scream dates from 1895, and is one of four versions...
The Man Behind Superman Recounts Trippy Life in Comics
Superman starts all over in September with a clean slate of adventures to be published in “Action Comics No. 1.” The re-boot of America’s oldest superhero will be handled by artist Ralph Morales and writer Grant Morrison, who injected comics with a whole new level of metaphysical depth when he co-created Batman’s twisted game-changer Arkham Asylum. In Morrison’s upcoming memoir Supergods (Spiegel...
Shooting The Messenger – How Britain’s Chilling Laws Put Freedom of Speech In The Deep Freeze
These are dangerous days to be a messenger. Hardly a week passes without another story of a journalist or photographer shot, murdered or imprisoned as they attempt to do their job – to give witness to events in a dangerous world. We like to think that Britain, with its raucous tabloid press, lively literary scene and tradition of free expression,...
Exclusive: Is Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour Shopping a Memoir?
The Devil Wears Prada indeed! Rumors are circulating that fashion maven and notorious ice queen Anna Wintour is shopping a memoir to potential publishers. One can only imagine the dishing on celebs she could do. Known for her love of fur and her distaste for fat people, perhaps we will get to hear from the icon herself what she really...
Andrew’s ET Clip on Princess Diana’s Jealousy, Will and Kate, Camilla and Royal Scandals
In the above clip Andrew speaks with Entertainment Tonight about how Diana might have felt passing on the torch to Kate Middleton (jealous!), why William and Kate’s choose to honeymoon in Seychelles, how the Middleton family matches up scandal wise to the House of Windsor and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s pro-media statements.
DVD Review: James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction
It’s a lofty, ambitious, attention-grabbing title: James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction. But in reality, it’s best to approach this six-part documentary series (which originally aired on AMC in 2018, but is now receiving a home video release July 28, 2020) with reasonably low expectations. Ken Burns territory this ain’t. Story of Science Fiction plays more like expanded versions of...
Music Reviews: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’s ‘Orange Crate Art,’ Plus Jenny Reynolds, Jason Daniels Band, Easy Love
Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’s most significant and best-known collaboration was in 1966 for the Beach Boys’ legendary Smile album, which remained unreleased for decades, though a bit of its material surfaced on 1967’s Smiley Smile. Parks contributed lyrics for that project, which gave birth to such elaborately constructed classics as “Heroes and Villains.” The pair teamed up again nearly three decades later for Orange Crate...