A tip o’ the Dog Rat toupee to my best buddy Denro, for tipping me off to this 1975 ABC-TV production of the 1966 musical, It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman. Lesley Ann Warren plays Lois Lane. She would have been good in The Rocky Horror Picture Show if Susan Sarandon hadn’t played Janet in the movie.
Coming in May will be an official Warner Blu-ray release of the 1940’s Fleischer/Famous Superman cartoons. It’s being reported that the original negatives have been scanned for perfectly super image quality. The cartoons will also be available to purchase for online streaming.
August 4, 1932, with the Great Depression at its worst, Frank Capra’s American Madness is released.
‘American Madness’ was a shocker to the public. It created controversy among critics and bitter contention in financial circles. Some called it “New Dealish”… “impractical star-gazing:… “fuzzy thinking.” Other said the thinking was no fuzzier than the “thinking” of financiers which created the boom and the crash.
– Frank Capra, The Name Above the Title, 1971
That quote is an example of why Capra’s autobiography is best read with an occasional grain of salt. The New Deal didn’t exist yet, and FDR hadn’t even been elected. Regardless, American Madness has Walter Huston as a bank president stating the case for new thinking to deal with the Depression. Herbert “Business as Usual” Hoover did not represent new thinking.
Jon Stewart ties Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm in knots, as he tries to explain and defend his illogic regarding guns. I’m going to assume that Dahm is aspiring to national political office.
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution:
As originally written — A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
As currently interpreted by the Supreme Court — The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Dilbert for February 26, 2023, the day Andrews McMeel Universal announced it was dropping the strip
Scott Adams could have quit, but instead he chose to be fired. At least there’s more publicity in that.
Adams said that white people should “get the hell away from black people.” Isn’t that the way it’s been in almost every syndicated humorous comic strip since Peanuts? Lynn Johnston and Cathy Guisewite were eagerly signed for syndication, but their points of reference were no less white and suburban than Gary Larson or Bill Watterson.
Perhaps Adams doesn’t want to be a cartoonist anymore. My take from watching some of Real Coffee With Scott Adams on YouTube is that he sees himself as another Rush Limbaugh. Adams retains Rush’s attention-getting histrionics in his polemics, while avoiding the hysterics of ex-DJ Limbaugh.
