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Stanley Kubrick''s 1980 horror film The Shining is one that some viewers have seen so many times that its principal location, a haunted Colorado hotel called The Overlook, is practically a second home. Kubrick''s camera spends a good deal of time prowling The Overlook''s weirdly carpeted hallways and exploring its seemingly infinite rooms, making the isolated mountaintop resort seem eerily real and all-encompassing. Many a nightmare has been set in The Gold Room, The Colorado Lounge, or the infamous Room 237. Die-hard fans of the film must wonder what it might be like to explore this famous and foreboding space on their own. An experimental 30-minute video called 'Shining 360' offers some clues. Spoiler: It''s pretty damned disturbing, even without 'Dies Irae' on the soundtrack.
The video, which uses YouTube''s still-novel 360-degree feature, is the work of digital artist Claire Hentschker, who has used the ...
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As reported by the BBC, playwright Peter Shaffer—who won multiple Tony Awards and a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award—has died. He was 90.
Shaffer was born in Liverpool in 1926, and he worked as a coal minor during World War II. According to The New York Times, he later studied history at Cambridge and began writing mystery novels with his fraternal twin brother, Anthony (who also eventually became a Tony-winning playwright). After graduating, Shaffer moved to the United States and got a job at the New York Public Library, which is reportedly where he first became interested in the theater. He returned to England shortly after that and began writing plays, with his first production—The Salt Land—getting adapted for TV by the BBC in 1955.
Over the years, Shaffer would go on to write more than 18 plays, including Five Finger Exercise, Black Comedy, Lettice And ...
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Peter D. Kramer, the psychiatrist who wrote 'Listening to Prozac,' pushes back against critics who say drug therapy is often no better than placebos.
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