January 26, 2013

  • J. J. Abrams is at it again. If I only had a fraction of this man's talent - say, as much as he has in his left ear lobe -  I could be happy and successful. Abrams is going to direct another Star Wars film.

    Phantom of the Opera turned 25. That is, it has been on Broadway since 1986.Some 130 million people have seen the stage production. It has earned some 5.6 billion dollars world-wide.

    I wonder what Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux would have to say about this. Leroux wrote the book, first published in 1911, and there is no way he could have imagined any part of where his story is at the beginning of 2013.