The Men of DragonCon 2009
September 7, 2009 by Cynthia
Dragon*Con is winding down today after a full weekend celebrating the best in science fiction, fantasy and gaming. Here’s a look at some of the lovely ladies that were in attendance.
Let’s start with scifi royalty – Star Trek’s William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
Next it’s two of my fave’s Murdock and Face from A-Team, Dwight Schultz and Dirk Benedict who also starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the original Battlestar Galactica respectively.
Family Guy’s Goodman Says Make it So!
March 29, 2009 by Cynthia
When Stewie can’t get his questions answered at at Star Trek: TNG reunion con, he takes matters into his own hands. Like any smart toddler, he builds a transporter and beams the entire cast into his bedroom for his own one-on-one Q&A.
It happens tonight on the Family Guy episode “Not All Dogs Go to Heaven.”
Executive Producer David Goodman sat down with reporters this week to talk the episode and how it came about.
Let’s start with the why:
Goodman: Actually, you could ask last week why did we do a Back to the Future reference when the movie is 30 years old. …read more
Hamlet Hears A Who
August 9, 2008 by brian
Reuters UK reports that The Doctor himself, David Tennant, is earning rave reviews in the most talked about production of Hamlet in recent memory. It’s become the talk of England because not only because it stars the man the Daleks call The Oncoming Storm, but because Patrick Stewart plays Hamlet’s uncle/stepfather Claudius.
Some theatre purists’ eyes rolled into the backs of their heads with this one, but it’s not like they’re pulling these castings out of the Neutral Zone or something. Stewart was an acclaimed theatre star long before he “made it so” as Capt. Jean Luc Picard. He was nominated …read more
Is This Patrick Stewart I See Before Me
January 2, 2008 by Cynthia
I have thee not, and yet I still see. . . tickets for the upcoming performance of Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, February 12th through March 22nd!
This production is a modernized version of the play that really gives Stewart something he can sink his teeth into.
Here’s how BAM describes the play:
Set in an industrial chamber that is equally military hospital ward, kitchen, torture chamber, and abattoir, Goold’s eerily modern Macbeth rings with the echoes of Stalinist terror. Macbeth is a decorated and loyal war hero, but loyalty only goes so far when greatness and history …read more


