Star Wars
The Phantom Edit
Millions of Star Wars fans were lukewarm about 1999’s prequel, The Phantom Menace, butone disappointed fan actually did something about it. Mike J. Nichols calls himself the Phantom Editor, and armed with a personal computer, he entirely re-cut the movie on video and started giving it away.
Happy Birthday Muppets!
Hard to believe, but the Muppets turned 40 this month! And my favorite segments from “The Muppet Show” are still “Pigs in Space.” In honor of Carrie Fisher’s appearance on our show last week, we bring you a clip from 1980. It’s the Muppets do “Star Wars” — and even though Fisher didn’t make it […]
Novelist’s Loner Protagonist is All Too Real in Tucson
Like the rest of the twitterati,the novelist Walter Kirn quickly tried to make sense of the Arizona shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and several others. As events unfolded, Kirn’s tweets stood out. By Sunday night, Kirn realized the uncanny similarities alleged shooter Jared Loughner shared with Kent Selkirk, the socially-inept-loner-on-the-internet protagonist of Kirn’s novel, The […]
