From Westfield Patch, June 6, 2011, “Crowds Peer Into Addams Family History” — Charles Addams’ Westfield, New Jersey boyhood home opens its doors. HarperCollins is releasing The Unabridged James Thurber Audio Collection on June 7, 2011. Read all about it here. Keith Olbermann reads Thurber’s fables and selected stories.
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Ben Stiller to play Thurber’s Walter Mitty?
From Deadline.com, April 7, 2011, “Ben Stiller Turns Fox’s ‘Walter Mitty’ Reboot From Daydream to Reality”
Read moreFifty Years Earlier
As a cartoonist it’s (mostly) all about what’s next; this may explain why I sometimes like to take a breather and think about what was. Still in a celebratory mode because of The New Yorker’s 86th anniversary, I went to my collection of anniversary issues and pulled out the issue from fifty years ago, dated February 18, 1961. Thought I’d
Read moreThe First New Yorker Cartoon
As the 86th anniversary of The New Yorker approaches, I’ve played a bit of New Yorker Trivial Pursuit, thinking about the first issue, and wondering who had the very first cartoon in the first issue of The New Yorker. Once you’ve made your way past the famous Rea Irvin Eustace Tilley cover, and have turned the first page (with its
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