Occupation: Writer Birth: June 10, 1952 Death: January 31, 2010
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love..
The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology..
One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school..
England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs c….
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same s….
If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls..
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience..
The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their ….
Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all ….
People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show….
I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard..
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation..
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flaw….