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O Mighty Isis!

July 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

In the July 29 edition of The Washington Post, I examine my favorite “mini-dress-wearing, Egyptian-goddess-channeling, golden-amulet-powered superheroine”: Isis. Read “Fly Like an Egyptian (Goddess).”

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Tags: Pop culture · Washington Post articles

Speaking of “The Blue Lagoon”…

July 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Washington City Paper’s Dave Nuttycombe was kind enough to swing by last week to see how the show was shaping up, and he’s posted a video on City Paper’s Fringe & Purge blog.

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Tags: Pop culture · Theater

Farewell, Tammy Faye

July 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments

The line between church and theater can be a fine one indeed, so it seems fitting that the first time I saw Tammy Faye Messner in person, it was in a church sanctuary that had been converted into the main stage of a performing arts center. It was the mid-1990s, and Messner had come to […]

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Tags: Pop culture · Theater

Who Are You Calling Nancy?

June 9th, 2007 · No Comments

There have been many faces of Nancy Drew on-screen through the years: Bonita Granville in the ’30s, Pamela Sue Martin and Janet Louise Johnson in the ’70s, Tracy Ryan in the ’90s, Maggie Lawson earlier in this decade, and now Emma Roberts in the new film “Nancy Drew.” In the June 10 edition of The […]

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Tags: Pop culture · Washington Post articles