He was certainly popular culture in his day, and his theater—as the source of entertainment, news, and gossip where average folks rubbed both literal and metaphorical elbows with their supposed betters—was the equivalent of our modern internet. Shakespeare, opera, and symphonies were popular entertainments for all levels of society until about the 19th century, when…
When Patrick Stewart died on Wednesday at his Los Angeles home at age 86, he was known to his fans mainly as a star of science fiction. Nearly 40 years earlier, in 1987, Stewart had debuted on American television as the noble Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in The Next Generation, the first live-action spin-off of the…
