Chris Dee
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Latest in Chris Dees Blog
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Where there never was a hat
Marvel folk, I know you're all excited that The Hulk opened this weekend. Even though I'm not a Marvel gal, I rejoice in a comics company and a movie studio able to say "We know we messed it up. But look, we accept that and we fixed it." Exciting as that is for me, it's not the story today. Today the story is another class act. Last night on the Tony Awards, Stephen Sondheim received the Lifetime Achievement and just as his music so often has, his acceptance speech brought a lump to my throat.
Thank you all, but this award has to be shared with Julius Epstein, Arthur Lawrence, Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, George Furth, Jim Goldman, John Weidman, Hugh Wheeler, and James Lapine. These are the men who created the characters that sang the songs, the situations that gave rise to the songs, and the criticism that improved the songs. They were my collaborators. They are called playwrights. They invent. They make wholecloth out of nothing. They make a hat ... -
WWYK: People Like Us, Part I
She savored a bite of crabmeat sprinkled with caviar… As sexy as Batman was, there was no denying that Bruce brought something to the party that the tightass crimefighter never could. She sipped the Dom… '85, she noted. Unlike most who just bought the name, Bruce knew the good vintages. She reflected, not for the first time, how few that thought they knew him, either as Bruce or Batman, really understood the first thing about his world. -The Gotham Post, Chapter 1 There was a line in an ancient John Larroquette sitcom that went something like: "You get all your ideas about white people from a Spike Lee movie." There is a similar failing that a few professional comic writers share with certain fanfic authors: getting their ideas about rich people from, as near as I can figure, The Beverly Hillbillies. To write every society woman like Gladys Ashton-Larraby is like writing every poor woman like Roseanne Barr. It's a type but it (a) isn't the only type...
