Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Spidey Bites: Stan Lee’s Secret for Saving Spider-Man the Musical? More Stan Lee!

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2011/03/spidey-bites.html

"It never occurred to us to save any of those things. We never thought they’d have any value later on. We worked in a very small office, and the printer would send back all the original pages of artwork, but we had no place to put them. So when we ordered food, we told the delivery guy, “Hey, would you mind taking these pages and dropping them in the trash on the way out?”"

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/0234230/LotR-Rewritten-From-a-Mordor-Perspective?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Slashdot/slashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+Reader

"In Yeskov's retelling, available in translation as a free download, the wizard Gandalf is a war-monger intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative of Mordor and its southern allies because science 'destroys the harmony of the world and dries up the souls of men' and Aragorn is depicted by Yeskov as a ruthless Machiavellian schemer who is ultimately the puppet of his wife, the elf Arwen."