Still, the advance publication of drafted scenes (some with stage directions of all but novelistic density), as well as a series of 12 open letters by the playwright in response to criticism, are ample evidence that "Don Carlos" was a literary -- even philosophical -- phenomenon at least as much as it was a theatrical one.
I Love Bad Movies (ILBM) is a DIY 'zine' published by Brooklyn couple Matt Carman and Kseniya Yarosh that has released five volumes of enthusiastic commentary since 2009 and might as well be the scene's publication of record.
As the publication pointed out, the scene is emblematic of the nation's post-"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" mindset, nearly two years after the controversial U.S. military policy's repeal.
If one of the most neutral, most respected publications on the current scene got it so wrong, then the faux pro-torture rumors circulating around the film were very real and potentially insurmountable.
A self-described "soccer mom" and an ironman triathlete, Ms. Broadwell became a fixture on the Washington media scene after the publication of her book about Mr. Petraeus, who is 60.
The cafe, opened three years ago by Jenifer Constantine and Trippy Thompson, a couple of other Williamsburg expatriates, is a place where one might stumble upon a copy of The Brooklyn Rail, the Greenpoint-based publication covering the local arts scene.
"He is one of the 10 most important people in the history of the Internet," said Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur of digital media who once chronicled New York's tech scene in his publication, The Silicon Alley Reporter.
A close friend of John Lennon's from Liverpool art college, BILL HARRY launched Mersey Beat at college, a publication about the Liverpool music scene which was instrumental in the Beatles' success.
Ever since he burst onto the French intellectual scene with the publication of "Barbarism With a Human Face" (1977), a scathing indictment of Marxist hypocrisy and intolerance, B.H.L. has evinced a Nietzschean antipathy to any "truth" (like "the party," "the Good" and "progress") that serves as a pretext for violent oppression.
Even now, more than 100 years after publication it's easy to picture the scene and share the narrator's horror at losing his home.
