Piping hot Monday goodness
Happy Monday to one and all! Or, to those who are on the East Coast and only check this site during work hours, happy Tuesday! (The early part of the day slipped away from me while I was doing Important Things. Sorry.)
This week’s edition of “Snide Remarks” — #600, as it happens — is entitled “The Gay Marriage Column,” and it is fairly self-explanatory.
Elsewhere, this week’s chapter of Eric’s Time Capsule at Film.com addresses “Ragtime,” released 27 years ago this week. Eric’s Time Capsule was on hiatus last week, but the previous week’s entry was on “Jacob’s Ladder,” in case you missed that. As always, comments and “Recommend” clickings at Film.com are most welcome. And take notes, because all of this will be on the midterm.
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November 17th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I never realized that “Ragtime” was a book and a movie, I’d only ever heard of the musical (which I love and want to be in someday). I want to read the book now. I don’t think I could appreciate the movie after the musical, though, that’s weird that they left out so many characters…
November 17th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Fair warning: The book, which I read after seeing the musical, contains some decidedly NC-17 scenes. For me, no amount of mental steel wool can scrub out the Younger Brother/Evelyn Nesbit/Emma Goldman closet scene, or Harry K. Thaw…err…displaying himself to Houdini in jail.
I love the musical, though. In my opinion it’s the best Broadway score of the 90s (followed closely by Parade). And what a cast!
November 18th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Gotta agree with CW. Songs like “Make Them Hear You” and “Wheels of a Dream” are superb B-way anthems. One must hear the original soundtrack with Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell beltin’ out the numbers.