By Lee Weinstein: I first encountered the Elephant Man in a worn-looking old medical book in the stacks of the Jefferson Medical College’s library in Philadelphia. The year was 1964, I was a teenage student participating in a summer program … Continue reading
(1) NICK FURY. The official trailer for Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion series dropped today. It streams June 21 on Disney+. (2) STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS BEFORE. “Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Has a Big Idea He Thinks Will Help … Continue reading
(1) THE ANSWER, MY FRIEND. George R.R. Martin empathizes with the Kiwis at Not A Blog: No Fooling. …The biggest news in that regard is that this year’s worldcon, CoNZealand, has also decided to go virtual. I know what a … Continue reading
By James H. Burns: While glancing through the redoubtable Peter Haining’s biography of the wondrous Raquel Welch this afternoon, this was just about the last reference I expected to see: Within a discussion of 1970’s Myra Breckinridge, Haining quoted a … Continue reading