Showing posts with label adaptations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adaptations. Show all posts
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Actors' Looks and Suspension of Disbelief

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THE MUSIC MAN (1962) is one of my favorite musical films. (I just ignore the unlikelihood of a happily-ever-after for Harold Hill and Marian...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

TV Series Book Adaptations

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The new season of the current TV series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL has just begun on PBS. When this remake was first announced, my initia...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Grumbling About Adaptations

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The second season of the current INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE series has begun. I'm ambivalent about this project. It has lots to admire. ...
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Thursday, November 09, 2023

Considering Adaptations

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That is, one adaptation in particular: CONJURE WIFE, by Fritz Leiber. It was first published as a magazine serial by UNKNOWN WORLDS in 1943,...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Modernizing Scrooge

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Many of Shakespeare's plays have been transmuted into modern settings, such as WEST SIDE STORY (from ROMEO AND JULIET), SHE'S THE MA...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Books to Films (Again)

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The premiere of the AMC miniseries of Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE set me thinking, again, about film adaptations of print fic...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Slime Mold Intelligence

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Slime molds, a type of gelatinous amoebae, despite having no brains, have the capacity to form memories: Slime Molds Redefine Intelligence...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Classics and Monsters

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Following the success of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES (2009), numerous mash-ups of public domain classic novels with horror creatures and...
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