Oscar-winning sound designer, editor and mixer Ben Burtt (“Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”) and Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Craig Barron (“The Curious ...

Though video and film are fashionable onstage these days, a show that would seem ripe for it actually steers clear. Last week I caught “Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din” at the Bushwick Starr — one ...

Born in British India, Gunga Din always wanted to join the British army like many of his fellow Indians, but Indians were not allowed to do so. So he starts observing the British and learns ...

Three generations of our family were served well by a non-human member. He was named Gunga Din after a faithful servant in a Rudyard Kipling tale. Gunga, a 1931 Model A Ford Roadster, was a gift to my ...

Where do war stories go when the battle’s over? As a country, we ask real soldiers to submerge traumatic memories, even as we guzzle souped-up, testosterone-laden combat drama at the movies—or so ...

In 1947, a V-twin Vincent with a clapped-out, rattling engine was turned over to the British motorcycle company's development department to serve as a test hack for go-faster bits, which rolled open ...

Back around 1965 there was a very funny comedy record. I think the title was “The Last Blast of the Blasted Bugler,” based on the story of Gunga Din. The artist, as I recall, was Sonny Gianardo, which ...

A prep (junior) school in Oxford, known improbably as the Dragon, had since the 1920s named one of its boarding houses Gunga Din after the character in Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem. Last month the ...