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Q&A: Sir Ian McKellen Takes On The Prisoner‘s Number One Tormenter
From his extensive Shakespearean roots to his knockout X-Men and Lord of the Rings roles as Magneto and Gandalf, Sir Ian McKellen boasts a prowess so refined that he’s now playing a role, The...
View ArticleJulie Taymor’s The Tempest Is Your New Late-Night Drunken Pizza Orgy Movie
Shakespeare's magic thrives in darkness. Many of his most memorable, transformative plays include unfathomable horrors. And The Tempest, perhaps his most overtly magical play, must beguile us but also...
View ArticleJason Silva’s Captivating Videos Deliver a Dose of ‘Techno-Optimism’
Enough with the 2012 apocalyptic pessimism. Jason Silva's positively mesmerizing indie videos will jolt you with a joyous hit of good vibes about technology and its place in our world.
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Clive Thompson on the Importance of Fan Fiction
Fan fiction has boomed in the past decade, as young people (and many adults) have swarmed online to share what-if tales set in their favorite movies, books, animation, and videogames.
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Hip-Hop Comic Prince of Cats Is Straight Outta Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet gets rewired through streetwise signifiers in new comic Prince of Cats, a postmodern remix of Shakespeare's Verona that careens into Afrika Bambaata's Planet Rock and Prince Paul's...
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Record-Breaking Kickstarter Turns Hamlet Into a Choose-Your-Adventure Epic
On Friday, an unlikely book will break the all-time record for Kickstarter’s most successful publishing project: a comedic choose-your-own-adventure-style novel by popular webcartoonist Ryan North that...
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Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing Isn’t Much of Anything at All
We do not have many films on which to judge Joss Whedon as a filmmaker. Much Ado About Nothing, which opens in theaters today, is technically his third film, but is in some ways our first opportunity...
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Remixing Shakespeare, From Verily, a New Hope to Terminator the Second
Inspir'd by Whedon's recent Much Ado,/ We've dredged the 'nets for Shakespeare with a twist,/ Our interest in such projects piqued anew,/ We now assemble here our humble list...
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Ryan North on Unleashing His New, Improved, Record-Breaking Hamlet Tale
Last year, Ryan North broke the record for Kickstarter’s most successful publishing project with his chose-your-own-adventure-style Hamlet project. Now he's unleashed To Be or Not to Be onto the world.
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