E.B. White On Thurber’s Drawings From the Department of One Thing Leads to Another, I began this Thurber Thursday by taking Conversations with James Thurber off the shelf and turning to the book’s very first “conversation,” conducted in 1939 by Arthur Millier for The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine. Mr. Millier spent a
Read moreHere’s the 1960 Tony Awards, with a segment at the 22:35 mark that is of special interest this being Thurber Thursday. At that mark you’ll see the actor Eddie Albert introduce Elliot Nugent to “present an award to his college friend, Mr. James Thurber.” The award was a Special Tony for A Thurber Carnival (as you’ll see, a Special Tony
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Down Another Rabbit Hole Doing an online search last night looking for a poster shown on a wall in the film, Heartburn of Thurber & Nugent’s The Male Animal at the Cort Theater, the below poster turned up of the 1972 film based on Thurber’s The War Between Men And Women (a series of drawings that ran in The New
Read moreFunny guy, Lars Kenseth is set to Zoom today, talking cartoons with a panel of contributors to Alta Journal of California. To watch (it’s free)…link here! Here’s Lars’ entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Lars Kenseth: New Yorker work: November 14, 2016 –. Lars is a cartoonist whose lumpy people have appeared in The New Yorker, Barron’s and Food And Wine’s
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