When I was a little kid, I greatly enjoyed the Disney Peter Pan adaptation. I was extremely weirded out by the Mary Martin live action adaptation, but that was many years before I understood and appreciated androgyny. Last year, Christopher Walken slept-walked through a spectularly boring live-action Peter Pan starring Allison Williams. It was awful, but it led to one of the Fug Girls’ finest hours, a liveblog with more cowbell. That said, I’d never read the book until now. As it turns out, I […]
By Hook or by Crook
All children, except one, grow up. This, however, is a review of a book and not a story of my life, so we’ll be moving on now. The idea of Peter Pan is something that just about anyone can recite from memory. There’s a boy who will remain a boy forever who lives upon an exciting island far in the sky just past the second star to the right where there are fairies, pirates, indians, mermaids, and an adventure around every corner. Not only can […]