"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
Sure, H.G. Wells may have invented the Video iPod, but, as I’ve pointed out before, Vladamir Nabokov invented the smiley emoticon:
“I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile — some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.” – Nabokov in interview, 1969
Now that’s prescience!
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The Princess Bride is gonna be a musical:
“The Princess Bride” delighted audiences with its mix of sincere medieval magic and mocking parody of the swashbuckling film genre. The flick starred Cary Elwes and Robin Wright as each other’s true love, and Chris Sarandon as the evil prince who would keep them apart. The film also starred Mandy Patinkin as a swordsman out for vengeance, Christopher Guest as another baddie, Wallace Shawn and Andre the Giant as two unlikely compatriots, and Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as an ancient wizard and his wife.
A couple of things. It was actually a book first. Wallace Shawn’s character hardly qualifies as a “compatriot,” however unlikely. And, my god, isn’t anything original ever going to make it to Broadway again?
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