Steven Moffat has won his second Hugo award for writing a Doctor Who episode — this time for the Season Two episode “The Girl in the Fireplace.” And well deserved, in my book. “The Girl in the Fireplace” was a beautiful script and a real standout in Season Two. (Moffat previously won for the “Empty […]
Entries Tagged as 'Shakespeare'
Doctor Who News: Hugo Number Two, and a TARDIS Hiatus After Season Four
Posted by Ocelopotamus on September 6th, 2007 at 12:12 am
Tags: News · Culture · TV · Theater · Science Fiction · Star Trek · Doctor Who · Shakespeare · UK/England · Russell T. Davies · Fantasy
Copy Rights and Wrongs
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 29th, 2007 at 4:18 am
This way-clever video, which I found on YouTube, uses short snips from various animated Disney films to provide an entertaining education on the nature of copyright, fair use, and the public domain.
The daunting reality is that copyright has way gotten out of control in recent years — where once upon a time copyright lasted […]
Tags: Culture · Film · Beatles · Books · Lit · Corporations · Shakespeare · History · Harper's · Video · Law
Ian McKellen Tackles King Lear
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 21st, 2007 at 3:54 am
Ian McKellen, profiled in The Observer, is finally ready to take on the role of a lifetime: King Lear.
McKellen and Trevor Nunn, who have known each other since they were at Cambridge together in the 1960s, have been planning this production for a long time. ‘McKellen has said that for him, Trevor Nunn is the […]
Tags: News · Culture · LGBT · Theater · Performance · Doctor Who · Ian McKellen · Shakespeare
