Every part of a story contains the DNA of the whole. An example of this can be found in two John Travolta dance sequences: one
The protagonist of Summer of Long Knives doesn’t have a historical counterpart. He’s a product of imagination inspired by three different detectives from film and television. The
Though old German laws against homosexuality–most notoriously Paragraph 175 of the German penal code–persisted through the Weimar republic, the 1920s were a time when German
From Slate: No. One cannot just go around reading the books of friends and acquaintances. The exceptions to this rule are few and obvious—looking at a
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgAo1kj-duU&w=560&h=315] My thanks to Larry Dahlke for providing the voice. There’s no way I could have sold this the way he does.
One of the things that surprised me when I started researching the Nazi police apparatus for Summer of Long Knives was how small the Gestapo really was:
In 2007, Slate inaugurated the A Fine Whine column, in which a Slate writer lets fly at some (usually petty) annoyance for a couple of pages. It
Yesterday, I talked about the importance of ernest goofiness in the great bad movie. Today, I read the introduction to Greg Sestero’s inside account of
Frick was many things to the Nazi party. As one of their earliest members of parliament he drafted legislation which would eventually become the Nuremberg
Over on Facebook, someone responded to my posts about Birdemic: Shock and Terror, with a request for my top ten bad movies of all time. For