Was Hulu miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers an overly complicated story about forgiveness, healing, and wellness or a trippy tale about grifting? Depends on who you ask (and how many drug-induced hallucinations you're experiencing). If you're in the camp of the former, well, then the show ended succinctly, providing everyone a (albeit undeserved) happy ending. Personally, I prefer the latter, in which Masha is a criminal genius who extorted her way out of jail and into a yellow Lamborghini, and the show is a cultural commentary on the power of persuasion. Read More...
Why do Ariel's sisters all have different colored hair? It has to do with the fact that they are mermaids, and how mermaids reproduce. Mer-folk have their human parts on top and their fishy parts on the bottom, this is obvious. It follows that their reproductive organs are among the fishy parts below their waist. Are Ariel and her sisters the same age? Point of reference, Adella admits in Ariel's Beginning, to being two years older than Ariel, therefore, making her the fifth daughter. Read More...
Charles Webb, a lifelong non-conformist whose debut novel The Graduate was a deadpan satire of his college education and wealthy background adapted into the classic film of the same name, has died. He was 81.
Webb died June 16 in Eastbourne, England, of a blood condition, said his friend Jack Malvern, a Times of London journalist to whom Webb’s final book was dedicated.
Webb was only 24 when his most famous book was published, in 1963. Read More...
