******50+ YEAR-OLD SPOILERS!****** As a child growing up in the 1970s, we only had appointment TV. Beta and VHS videotapes were prohibitively expensive. DVDs/Blu-Rays were decades away, let alone streaming. When your favorite show was broadcast (with commercials), your little butt had to be in front of that tiny, 20-odd inch cathode ray TV or…
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Musings for Halloween: The San Francisco Ballet’s interpretation of “Frankenstein”…
******207-YEAR OLD SPOILERS!****** Young 19th century author Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking 1818 novel “Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus,” famously fused gothic horror with elements of science fiction. It’s since been adapted into various mediums, including stage plays and films. The most popular of these adaptations were the loosely-adapted Universal Monster movies of the 1930s-1940s, three of…