88. The Day the Earth Stood Still

People of Earth! Your attention, please! In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're talking about the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still!

In this episode we discuss:

• Farewell to the Master, the original 1940 short story by Harry Bates
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), directed by Robert Wise, written by Edmund H. North, and starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, and Hugh Marlowe
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), directed by Scott Derrickson, written by David Scarpa, and starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, and Jaden Smith

Footnotes:

• Episode 108 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Justice"
• The Celluloid Closet (1996)
• Adapt or Perish Episode 49: The Karate Kid
• Seth Shostak on the Set of The Day the Earth Stood Still

87. Valley of the Dolls

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're looking at Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls! We're very sorry.

In this episode we discuss:

• Jacqueline Susann's original 1966 novel
• The 1967 movie, directed by Mark Robson, written by Helen Deutsch, Dorothy Kingsley, and Harlan Ellison, and starring Barbara Perkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate
• The 1981 two-part TV movie, directed by Walter Grauman, written by Laurence Heath, and starring Catherine Hicks, Lisa Hartman, Veronica Hamel, Jean Simmons, and James Coburn (here's a current YouTube link, for however long it's up)

Footnotes:

• Episode 73: Flowers in the Attic
• The Patty Duke Show
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), directed by Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert
• The gloriously 90s intro of Valley of the Dolls (1994)

86. Emma, Part 2

It's still February, and that means we're still talking about Jane Austen's Emma! In Part One, we looked at five of the more traditional television and movie adaptations, but in Part Two, we're stepping away from the traditional.

In this episode we discuss:

• Clueless (1995), written and directed by Amy Heckerling, and starring Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, and Brittany Murphy
• Aisha (2010), directed by Rajshree Ojha, written by Devika Bhagat and Ritu Bhatia, and starring Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol
• Emma Approved (2013–2014), created by Bernie Su, and starring Joanna Sotomura, Brent Bailey, and Dayeanne Hutton
• The Emma Agenda (2017), written and directed by Jules Pigott, and starring Selis Maria Vargas, Angela Wong Carbone, and Jillian Hite
• Jane Austen's Emma — A Musical Romantic Comedy (2018), written by Paul Gordon, directed by Tim Kashani and Kent Nicholson, and starring Kelli Barrett, Timothy Gulan, and Dani Marcus

Footnotes:

• StreamingMusicals.com from Tony Nominee Paul Gordon
• The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
• Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...