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The Prisoner Reboots the Panopticon
I spent last week chatting up actors Jim Caviezel, Ian McKellen and other principals behind the reboot of Patrick McGoohan’s culturally influential sci-fi allegory The Prisoner — and it was […]
First Lady of Star Trek, Memorialized On Earth
Still feeling strange tremors from my grandmother’s passing, especially today. I reported on the burial of Star Trek‘s Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, wife of creator Gene Roddenberry for Wired, which felt weird […]
The Clone Wars Reboots Star Wars’ Peripheral Players
I’ve been covering the smoking new iteration of Star Wars known as The Clone Wars for Wired since its first animated episode aired earlier this year. It’s far better than […]
Post Up! Best Xmas Tune Ever? Stephen Colbert and Willie Nelson’s Ode to Weed
Click the video at right, if you want to skip my pontification. But those of you who have kept track of my spiels for Wired on Stephen Colbert’s riotous A […]
Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
“It was so incredibly untrue to life and yet so perfectly exposing at the same time.”
The Beatles Say Goodbye To Television
Frost’s audience crowds the band at the ballad’s finale, as if they didn’t want to let The Beatles go.
Twin Piqued: David Lynch’s TV Legend Makes Musical Comeback
“Everyone was watching that show. Angelo Badalamenti had a huge influence on the shoegaze sound.”
Harvey Birdman’s Metafictional Cartoon Universe
“Anywhere else, you would have a conversation on how unacceptable this is,” Richter explains. “But a fan of the absurd would say, ‘Where do we start?’“
Lynch, David (1946—)
Lynch’s style became his signature, to the point where reviewers, unable to comprehend, simply claimed that Lynch was being Lynch.