January 11, 2018
The Little Mermaid and the Little Girl Writer Part Two
While Ariel barters her art for romance, Ursula remains witchy and creative. As she sings her story-song in the film, she conjures images of what she’s describing above her cauldron […]
January 5, 2018
The Little Mermaid and the Little Girl Writer Part One
I will never forget sitting in the front row of that movie theater watching The Little Mermaid, wide-eyed, wondering what happened to that discarded mermaid tail. Did the witch store […]
April 26, 2015
No Strings
James Spader is profiled in today’s Times. He plays the robot villain in Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron—but for me he’ll always be Graham Dalton, the all-too-human center of […]