Video: Tilley and Hitchcock

My thanks to New Yorker cartoonist, Liam Walsh, for passing along this link to a clip from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1944 film, Lifeboat, wherein Eustace Tilley has a cameo at the 2:04 mark. Note:  Russell Maloney profiled Hitchcock in The New Yorker, September 10, 1938; great reading, including this tidbit about Hitchcock’s dining habit: “He likes to eat steak and ice

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Chas Addams original sets record auction price; Reading: Carolita Johnson

From Artfixdaily.com, March 7, 2012, “Gil Elvgren dominates $3+ million Heritage Auctions illustration Art Event in Beverly Hills” (Chas Addams content about midway down: Addams’ Sad Movie original set a world record for an Addams’ original, selling for $40,625.  You’ll also find a link to the Heritage Auction listing).   From Melville House Books, March 7, 2012, “Leigh Stein &

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