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

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Film 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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