Looking for a new perspective on diversity? Here it is.
Until my brain injury in 2013, I lived my life as a cis-gendered white male. Apart from my experience with disability, which I admit was eye-opening, I’m about as diversity-challenged as a human being can get. I went to boarding school, for crying out loud. Nevertheless, my approach to writing characters has earned me a reputation as someone who provides fantastic performance opportunities to underrepresented people.
Richard Janes presents a past, present, and future history lesson for all those of us who are, or aspire to be, part of that weird, wacky, wonderful world called showbiz.
Production, exhibition, and good old fashion power are all being violently uprooted in tinsel town and where we land twelve months from now is going to look very different from the last twenty years.
It’s not easy being green…with muscles. Torn between ligaments, emotions, and the bright lights of television stardom, the behind-the-small-screen tales of The Incredible Hulk are large-scale hair-raising.
Anger, fury, isolation, loneliness, death, secrets, egos — alter egos — and jealousy, the green-eyed monster itself — these are the traits belonging to Dr. Bruce Banner and his mammoth, ultra-strong, oh-so-golly-green giant alter ego from the popular Marvel comic book The Incredible Hulk created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1962. These are also the themes that run rampant throughout the very making of the popular sci-fi TV series adaptation of the franchise that initially ran on CBS from 1978 to 1982.
Bill Bixby portrayed the Dr.-Jekyll-like Dr. David Banner, with the first-name change from Bruce. The hearing-impaired Lou Ferrigno played the muscle-bound Mr. Hyde….
NOTE FROM LB: This strip from Thursday, May 7, 2020’s Funky Winkerbeat, may appear to be just another showbiz cliche, but in fact you’re looking at ans absolutely real, non-apocryphal situation.
I know because I’ve lived through at least half a dozen similar meetings, all with the same punchline.
Poor Grandma Brody. She’s having so much trouble getting his TV to work the way he wants it these days.
Oh, wait, my wife Gwen the Beautiful is Grandma Brody, and she’s doing just fine. Many other grandmothers, however, seem to be having a bit of a problem.
