Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.