[Overthinking It Magazine is the weekly feature where we give you articles you’ll like all the more since the sabbath gives you an extra minute to ponder them. It may not replace your Sunday morning tryst with the newspaper of … Continued
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The Harvard Classics Project is a very Overthinking It-type enterprise, in that it combines high culture and pop culture. On the high culture side is The Harvard Classics. In the first decade of the 20th century, Harvard President Charles Eliot … Continued
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I recently had the pleasure of watching a play I had written go up as part of the New Works New Haven theatre festival, and sitting in the green room with the actors and techies before the show, I was … Continued
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Male nudity is one of the last great taboos in movieland. Oh sure, female nudity still raises eyebrows, but people think of The Piano as A) a surreal anti-patriarchal love story, and B) “that film where you see Harvey Keitel … Continued
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At one point in The Return of the King, Gandalf tells Pippin: Sauron has yet to reveal his deadliest servant. The one who will lead Mordor’s armies in war. The one they say no living man can kill. The Witch … Continued
A semiotician named Michael Bell-Smith has had the brilliant idea of taking the twelve original episodes of Trapped in the Closet (you know Trapped in the Closet, don’t you?) and playing them all simultaneously. The result is amazing, and it … Continued
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Okay, in my original Eurovision post, I dismissed the Russian entry, “Believe,” as being “too lame to embed here.” But after the song’s victory, I watched it again. And I realized that when something is lame enough, it becomes camp, … Continued
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I also learned that the next time I see Robert Downey, Jr. looking all pale and ragged, it’s because Jeff Daniels stole his nuclear heart, not because he was ODing on something and how dare you insinuate that. Also, Wikipedia … Continued
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Devout followers of this blog will have noticed that I have had horror on the brain over the past few months. (To those of you who scare easily, I apologize.) I’ve been taking a class on horror movies, so I … Continued
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Since you are no doubt eagerly awaiting news of your favorite ex-Broadway show, the NYT has done a post-mortem on Glory Days (obligatory joke: “Don’t you mean… Glory Day? Ha!”). From the article: But neither Mr. Blaemire nor Mr. Gardiner … Continued
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