Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Check out this New York Times story on Green Lantern (registration required). It's not often that the Old Gray Lady casts her eye toward the funnybooks, which is why it caught my attention.

It's even rarer for a mainstream media outlet to treat comics with any measure of respect. The Times does so in this piece, tacitly admitting that the medium can address serious subjects such as the one at hand, violence against homosexuals. It's several steps up from the half-assed, "Pow! Bam!" coverage comic books usually get, making the article a welcome and highly enjoyable read.

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It's been nine months since I first predicted Jason Alexander would play Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks' hit musical The Producers. When another actor took over the role after Nathan Lane left the Broadway production, I figured I'd made yet another error in a series of bad calls. To me it seemed a natural pairing, but it just wasn't going to happen.

Turns out, I simply needed to have a little patience. Alexander will be playing Bialystock, in a Los Angeles production next summer.

I got the venue wrong, but two out of three is vindication enough for me.

Posted @ 6:09 PM

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