1. The Bunk lies down on Broadway.
Wendell Pierce is ready for another run as Willy Loman.
The American actor, best known for his work in “The Wire,” first took on the titanic title role in “Death of a Salesman” in London in 2019, and even then he hungered to bring the performance to New York.
Rod Dreher and his family saw the London production, and he raved about it. This might actually be enough to get me to go to NYC. (Also, Mike the Musicologist and Andrew the Colossus of Roads were talking about Peter Luger on Saturday, and I’d like to take a shot at that.)
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NEWS: A deal to publish Harlan Ellison's THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS, as well as its predecessors, DANGEROUS VISIONS and AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS has been struck with Blackstone Publishers via the Janklow & Nesbit Agency, and announced at the London Book Fair, slated for '23.
— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) May 2, 2022
(The Last Dangerous Visions explained, for those of my readers who are not SF fans.)
3. There’s a movie tentatively scheduled for February 2023. It sounds like trash, but fun trash.
- It has Ray Liotta.
- It has Felicity.
- It has Esteemed Character Actress Margo Martindale. (She was really good in the second season of “Justified”.)
- And it does what it says on the tin.
That’s right, a movie inspired by the true story of Cocaine Bear. How can you not be entertained?