New York Times critic AO Scott is all boo-hoo waaaa grrl power
Do you imagine that anyone — any single person — will accuse Scott of dragging feminism into everything?
Mona Lisa
question of the day: If you had millions (or billions) to blow, what ultimate cultural status symbol would you buy?
Remember, The Scream is now taken, but there’s still the Mona Lisa, the Eiffel Tower…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Girl Who Waited”
I didn’t sob here like, oh, “School Reunion” made me do, but there was certainly some welling up about the eyes.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Amy’s History Hunt
The BBC’s official site for Doctor Who is chock full of cute games, such as Amy’s History Hunt, wherein you play Amy and try to unlock the Doctor’s safe (for some reason that’s not offered) and retrieve the Doctor’s favorite painting (which he’s locked in there for purposes unknown).
question of the day: What fine-art painting would you like to see adapted as a film?
Steve Simels writes a regular column at Box Office Magazine, and over the holiday weekend he offered a possible new avenue for a Hollywood intent on borrowing from other mediums for its stories: fine art. And Simels had a particular painting in mind for adaptation: “genius-of-the-macabre artist Henry Fuseli’s incredible The Nightmare,” dating from 1785: … more…
