Uncle Fester’s In The House The other day I mentioned that Burger King was offering up six different Addams Family toys. I’ve made it
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Tag: Linda H. Davis
Thurber Thursday: Latest Addition to The Spill Archive: A Letter To Edward Frascino From E.B. White
E.B White and James Thurber — the names go together like soup and sandwich, or, um…horse and carriage. New Yorker history buffs will recall that Thurber’s first book, Is Sex Necessary, was co-authored with E.B. White, and that the two shared an office at The New Yorker in their earliest years at the magazine. It was White who fished a
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Tuesday Spill: 56 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker; Linda H. Davis On Mort Gerberg
56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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Wednesday Spill: Video Of Interest: Charles Addams
Video Of Interest: Charles Addams An exchange of emails with Linda Davis, Charles Addams’s biographer, regarding the Westfield NJ “AddamsFest” led to Ms. Davis pointing me to a clip on Youtube from a 1981 PBS interview with Charles Addams. The “AddamsFest” folks will be showing the entire interview, but for now, we can enjoy close to three minutes with one
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