Tommy Karr

Category: Entertainment

  • Book Review: OUT OF OZ by Gregory Maguire

    Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire My rating: 4 of 5 stars An avid fan of the first book of The Wicked Years series, Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, I had pressed through the second and third installments with a mix of pleasure and tedium. Son of…

  • The Muppets GOP Hearing: From Green to Red?

    There is a hilarious trend on Twitter mocking Fox News and program host Eric Bolling’s ridiculous insistance that The Muppets are communists and are teaching American children about class warfare… all because the villain in the new movie is an oil baron. My contributions are below followed by some personal favorites: https://twitter.com/#!/wthomasadkins/status/144447387367251968 And: https://twitter.com/#!/wthomasadkins/status/144450328882982912 Other favorites…

  • Addie to the Rescue: Raising Awareness of Copyright Theft

    Addie Brownlee (Disclaimer: she’s a dear friend but I love and support her art regardless) is featured in a new PSA (see below) produced in partnership with MTV and carried out by the nonprofit National Crime Prevention Council, the folks who gave us McGruff the Crime Dog. The PSA is very revealing.  It puts to mind…

  • Sears Wish Book: A Lexicon of Jubilation

    There was a book that I cherished more than all others and it arrived in our home just once a year.  When it arrived I quickly tore through it, though careful not to damage it.  Sitting on my bed I would flip past pages of epicness and awesomeness, drooling over the newest and greatest toys I…

  • Liviu Ciulei: Remembering the Romanian Theater Director

    In 1997 I was attending The University of Tennessee, pursuing a degree in Theatre, with an emphasis on performance (more specifically, musical theatre performance) but had dabbled in stage management… exactly once… as the assistant stage manager on a production of Grease.  I suppose I did a good job because I was asked to stage manager…

  • Still Loving Lucy 60 Years Later

    It is hard to imagine that there was TV sixty years ago today, let alone that I Love Lucy, the most beloved sitcom of all time (my opinion but I have little doubt it isn’t true), premiered that long ago.  Yes, for those who were there sixty years may not feel so long ago, but when…

  • On a lighter note… THE MUPPETS!

    Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, what I imagined my life would be like once I grew up and became friends with The Muppets.  I might pass out from ridiculousness if I have to wait much longer to enjoy Kermit and the gang on the big screen again.

  • Seriously, go read this damned book

    John Dies at the End by David Wong My rating: 4 of 5 stars Having recently seen the trailer for the upcoming film I was intrigued to read the original novel and see what all the fuss was about. What I wasn’t prepared for was the onslaught of hilarity and gross. Gross what? Just gross.…

  • Ten Things the Internet Could Have Helped Me Avoid in the 1980s

    1.  I would not have sung the wrong lyrics to “Oh, Sherrie” like an idiot. 2.  I would not have given up on that pen-pal program to a kid in France… to whom I never wrote a second letter because I lost his physical mailing address.  Sorry French kid. 3.  I would not have had…

  • Making a Musical in New Orleans

    After my trip home to Tennessee I flew down to New Orleans to see Ren make his stage debut in a new musical at the Allways Lounge and Theatre. Sidenote: The plane was full of Red Hat Ladies, all of whom were very nice and very brightly adorned, en route to New Orleans for what…