Happy 50th birthday, Rocky and Bullwinkle
(CNN) — Fifty years ago, Jay Ward’s animated moose and squirrel duo, “Rocky & Bullwinkle,” debuted on ABC, forever changing the way the world looked at animated television. In one episode, Rocky and Bullwinkle are propelled to the moon when their oven explodes while the pair are following Bullwinkle’s grandmother’s recipe for mooseberry fudge cake. [...]
Rowan Atkinson on Shakespeare
January 26, 2010 by admin
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Monsterpiece Theater – Me Claudius
January 7, 2010 by admin
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Literature in the Age of Social Media
Penguin has done it again. When humorist Sarah Schmelling transformed Hamlet into a Facebook news feed, it launched the next big humor trend – Facebook lit. This hilarious book is the first to bring more than fifty authors and stories from classic literature back to life and online. Schmelling uses the conventions of social networking [...]
WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???
From Twitterature, this is the tweet version of Hamlet. Students’ book transforms classics into ‘tweets.’ One day in spring 2009, Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin were hanging out in their Max Palvesky West dorm room, bantering about the increasingly popular social networking tool known as Twitter. The first years’ chat turned into a verbal game, [...]
Football Comes to the U of C – 1961, The Second City
December 27, 2009 by admin
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New Year’s Resolutions
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Happy New Year!!!!
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New Year’s Resolutions
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Football Comes to the U of C
December 27, 2009 by admin
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Smart Comedy Built Second City Success Bernie Sahlins knows talent when he sees it. During his 26 years as producer with The Second City, Sahlins, AB’43, helped discover some of world’s best-known comedians, including John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, and Bill Murray. But there’s a surprising secret to Sahlins’ success—funny isn’t enough. “First I look for [...]
