The classic work-on-a-plane problem?
The series is based on the self-deprecating, self-lacerating stories of Mikhail Bulgakov, and I know what you're thinking -- another show based on the works of a classic Russian writer!
As we first noted back in October, BlackBerry has been working on a "Classic" handset that mixes the best of many worlds: the keyboard that once helped them rule the mobile world, a form factor that once proved wildly successful for them, modern (if mid-range) specs, and the most recent version of the BlackBerry operating system.
FF: Well the angle that I take in general, especially when I'm working on a classic, is that I try to hold on to the original intent.
Listen here Above, by way of the BBC's Jazz on 3 is a glimpse of how that process works, on a jazz classic: John Coltrane's Giant Steps – or Stepz in this incarnation, of course.
Rumor has it that Nintendo is also working on an SNES Classic Edition for the end of the year.
She says it has been a comfort to work on a comic and magical classic that also happens to have been the first play she ever saw, as an eight-year-old on a school outing from Boston.
The battle of the sexes doesn't go well for women in this work, based on a Kabuki classic, "Modoribashi".
The case is one of several in recent years exploring how much license the public has to draw on a classic work.
