78 Years Ago Today: “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” Broadcast From The Algonquin Roundtable, this audio clip of James Thurber’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, read by Robert Benchley (as part of a 1944 CBS Radio Broadcast series, “This Is My Best”). The audio clip is just 19 minutes — not the full performance. — my thanks
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Robert Kraus’s “Monster In The Basement” (With Lee Lorenz!) Friend of the Spill, David Pomerantz has sent in this outta-the-blue-never-woulda- believed-it-in-a-million-years story about a 1962 homemade horror film by New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Kraus, starring, of all people, Lee Lorenz. Link here for the full story (with more photos) in Famous Monsters magazine (the story begins on page 58). —My
Read moreTrailer Of Interest…Stevenson: Lost And Found Here’s the official trailer for the highly anticipated documentary film on the late great New Yorker artist & writer, James Stevenson: Sally Williams‘ Stevenson: Lost and Found. Link here to the official trailer. From the film’s Facebook page: Writer and artist, James Stevenson was one of The New Yorker Magazine’s most prolific cartoonists. Revered
Read moreHere’s something fun for a rainy, snowy, icy Sunday (at least that’s what it’s like outside here at Spill central). A rare Robert Benchley title from 1929, with illustrations by the (then) New Yorker art supervisor, Rea Irvin. A brief bio of Mr. Irvin from the Spill‘s A-Z: Rea Irvin (pictured above). Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin
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