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Click here to read the full article. In an episode of Netflix’s new drama The Sandman , two characters discuss a shared fondness for the works of William Shakespeare. One of them objects to a recent King Lear production that drastically altered the story, while the other assures him, “The great stories will always return to their original forms.” The latter sentiment is the key to understanding both the assets and challenges of making a TV series out of a comic book long held as one of the medium’s greatest, but also one of its most unadaptable. More from Rolling Stone George Pérez, Influential and Dynamic Comic Book Artist, Dead at 67 Neal Adams, Legendary Comic Book Artist Who Revitalized 'Batman,' Dead at 80 Stephen Sondheim's Death: Stars Pay Tribute to Broadway Legend Written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by a rotating series of artists, The Sandman , which ran from 1989 to 1996, posits that there is a family of cosmic beings more powerful than any … [Read more...] about ‘The Sandman’: Neil Gaiman’s Twisted Dark Fantasy Is Finally Brought (Almost) to Life

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 Godlike beings guiding the dreams, desires and deaths of mankind mingle with Satan, Shakespeare, Barbie and serial killers in the mythological and pop-cultural hodgepodge of "The Sandman." Not unlike a reverie, the 10-part adaptation of Neil Gaiman's seminal comic book series brooks no borders. The Netflix fantasy drama goes to hell and back - just one of several world-hopping adventures taken up by the gloomy and self-serious immortal we're saddled with as the protagonist. Then again, if the only power I were granted as a supernatural being was the ability to manipulate dreams - while my siblings spend their days ending lives or creating new ones - I might turn out to be quite the grump, too. Gaiman's staggeringly popular comic series, which debuted in 1989, is sprawling, diffuse and exactingly concise; the deity-esque Dream's (Tom Sturridge) descent into Lucifer's (Gwendoline … [Read more...] about ‘The Sandman’ suggests some comic books are better left off-screen

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Friday ordered Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which the conspiracy theorist f a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws. The amount is less than the $150 million sought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among 19 children and six educators killed in the deadliest classroom shooting in U.S. history. The trial is the first time Jones has been held financially liable for peddling lies about the 2012 attack in Newtown, Connecticut. Jurors at first awarded Heslin and Lewis $4.1 million in compensatory damages, which Jones called a major victory. But in the final phase of the two-week trial, the same Austin jury came back and tacked on an additional $45.2 million in punitive damages. Punitive damages are meant to punish defendants for particularly egregious … [Read more...] about Alex Jones ordered to pay $49.3M total over Sandy Hook lies

Bill Maher begins an episode of Real Time With Bill Maher with a monologue running down the week’s events. This week, even more so than most, he had a lot to discuss. Some bits abounded with paradoxes — such as “Biden got COVID again — and had the best week of his presidency.” Some learned towards the satirically absurd:  “It’s good to see the Democrats can be bipartisan with themselves.” And sometimes, it was more sobering, as when he pointed out that “a lot of election deniers” won in Tuesday’s primaries. Overall, it was a brisk rundown of the last seven days. And that made sense; this was an episode with the potential to cover a lot of ground. While the evening’s panel featured two people with plenty of knowledge of the state of American politics, Maher’s first guest had a very different background. That would be David Duchovny, whose new novella The Reservoir came out earlier this summer. Maher pointed out that the protagonist of Duchovny’s book shared some qualities … [Read more...] about David Duchovny Talked Writing and Weed With Bill Maher

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 Mike Esposito still won't say who gave him the tip about the records. But on July 14, he went public with an explosive claim. In a sometimes halting video posted to the YouTube channel of his Phoenix record shop, the 'In' Groove, Esposito said that "pretty reliable sources" told him that MoFi (Mobile Fidelity), the Sebastopol, Calif., company that has prided itself on using original master tapes for its pricey reissues, had actually been using digital files in its production chain. In the world of audiophiles - where provenance is everything and the quest is to get as close to the sound of an album's original recording as possible - digital is considered almost unholy. And using digital while claiming not to is the gravest sin a manufacturer can commit. There was immediate pushback to Esposito's video, including from some of the bigger names in the passionate audio community. … [Read more...] about How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire