I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

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.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

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.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

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