Books

This is a Book About The Kids in the Hall by John Semley (ECW Press, $19.95)

“Their namesake sketch series helped define Gen Xers, arresting their generational sensibility mid-eyeroll:  sarcastic, sneering, derisive of authority and self-importance, yet also progressive, compassionate, wildly intelligent, and maybe more than a little self-indulgent.” -John Semley (from This is a Book About The Kids in the Hall) In the Late eighties SCTV was gone and although […]

Books

Television is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age by Michael Wolff (Penguin Random House, $31)

By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) “This book is about what happens when the smartest people in the room decide something is inevitable, and yet it does not come to pass.  Omens have been misread, tea leaves misinterpreted.  Not only has the Web not destroyed TV, but the source of new media’s strength – […]

Books Film/TV

Everything I Ever Needed to Know About ______* I Learned From Monty Python by Brian Cogan, Ph.D. & Jeff Massey, Ph.D. (St. Martin’s Press, $29.99)

  By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “Significantly, no matter how seemingly esoteric Python’s subject matter may have initially appeared to viewers, [Monty Python’s Flying Circus] always mixed an underlying erudition with surrealistic but ultimately accessible comedy, thus appealing to a legion of fans who – to this day – strive to ‘get’ Python’s myriad […]