It’s time for my annual Christmas viewing of Larceny, Inc.
Author: DOuG pRATt
Super Pre-Pop
Artist Philip Pearlstein has died. Ten years before Pop Art began to take hold, Andy Warhol’s friend and onetime roommate painted Superman.
It’s like a “Picture of Dorian Gray” version of H.J. Ward’s 1940 Superman painting.
For more — much more — background on the Ward painting:
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-1/
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-2/
Get Jingling!
I need to get in the holiday spirit. Music will help.
And so will reading some classic Christmas stories.
Crazy Old Guy Saves Christmas
Where are the adult caretakers at this orphanage? The kids are left to fend for themselves on Christmas morning, playing with broken toys, until Betty Boop’s Grampy shows up to fix things. Featured in the opening and ending of this nicely restored cartoon is the Fleischer Studio’s Stereoptical Camera.
Blunderaire
Trump’s only financial success, independent of his father, came from him being paid to appear on a TV show. It is extremely unlikely that he has ever personally been a billionaire.
Pain in the Neck
Being free of Covid is quite a relief. One symptom that hit, indicating there was more than a cold at work, was a terrible headache. It felt like a hangover, but without alcohol being involved.
