The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: beignets & coffee in New Orleans The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No duos (that we know of). No newbies. A note about the Harry Bliss drawing in the issue: the squirrel’s inner thoughts may sound
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Thurber Thursday: Bill Murray Reads Thurber
Exploring the ole world wide web last night I ran into this video of the actor Bill Murray reading Thurber’s 1930 New Yorker piece, “If Grant had Been Drinking At Appomattox”… Here’s how the piece looked (in part) as it appeared when first published in The New Yorker, December 6, 1930: Here’s a link to a video of Mr. Murray
Read moreFilm Of Interest: Wes Anderson’s New Yorker-ish “The French Dispatch”; Video Of Interest: Liza Donnelly On Oscar’s Red Carpet; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s); New York Times Piece Of Interest: Tina Brown
Film Of Interest: Wes Anderson’s New Yorker-ish “The French Dispatch” From The New Yorker‘s Culture Desk, February 11, 2020, “A Look At Wes Anderson’s New, New Yorker-Inspired Film” — this should be fun. Above: the poster, which resembles a certain magazine’s cover. Read more here. Above: Bill Murray as the magazine’s editor, Arthur Howitzer, Jr. — a character “inspired by
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