Soylent Green (1973) was a cautionary science-fiction tale that featured Charlton Heston as a 21st-century police officer and Edward G. Robinson, in his last film, as an elderly chemist.
The bizarre episode was the latest in a tale that has featured a mysterious disappearance from a hotel room in Saudi Arabia, rumors of a trove of new intelligence about Iran's nuclear facilities and a series of contradictory YouTube videos.
The bizarre episode was the latest in a tale that has featured a mysterious disappearance from a hotel room in Saudi Arabia, rumors of a trove of new intelligence about Iran's nuclear plants and a series of contradictory YouTube videos.
Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky is reportedly working on a movie of the Noah's Ark tale that would feature Russell Crowe in the title role.
Nicolas Coppola, artistic director of Puppetworks, and Adam Kilgour have adapted Rudyard Kipling's tales into a marionette production that features an original score and traditional Indian motifs.
Each set in the Omnibus series features a different tale that is given a special twist by the use of the Disney cartoon characters.
He sees no contradiction in simultaneously working on an opera for the Royal Opera House (Aida, which he is staging in November), a version of a Hans Christian Andersen tale that will probably feature music by Tom Waits, and a 25th-anniversary retrospective of fashion designer Giorgio Armani, which opens at London's Royal Academy next month, having appeared at the Guggenheim in New York.
The way the sky takes on an almost otherworldly maroon cast at night, from the reflected glamor… Weldon's antic tale takes place in a near future that features the "middle-class tax riots of 2011," a "National Unity Government, composed not of politicians… What do you do when you have an odd-looking rash on your feet, or persistent hiccups that won't go away?
Weldon's antic tale takes place in a near future that features the "middle-class tax riots of 2011," a "National Unity Government, composed not of politicians but of sociologists and therapists," and a recession for which anorexic girls are blamed, because they have made non-consumption fashionable.
"Chalcot Crescent," by Fay Weldon (Europa; $15) Weldon's antic tale takes place in a near future that features the "middle-class tax riots of 2011," a "National Unity Government, composed not of politicians but of sociologists and therapists," and a recession for which anorexic girls are blamed, because they have made non-consumption fashionable.
