Up to date on Slack Wyrm, and nearly finished my second run through the archives of ‘Carry On’. Noticed some details and info that I missed first time through.
I’ll probably do a second run through ‘Sabrina’ and ‘Freefall’ at some point in the near future, plus there are some others I want to look at too.
Orson Welles, arriving at the premiere of Citizen Kane, in 1941, which he wrote, directed, and starred in…. And he’s 25 years old!
Amazing to see him getting out of an ordinary cab…. these days it would be a limo, surrounded by crowds, and paparazzi. Then again, this was his first feature film, so maybe he wasn’t that famous yet.
Okay…. I found this:
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“May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane premieres at the RKO Palace on Broadway in New York City.
The film … is met with heaps of praise by film critics. The New York Times wrote that it came close to being the most sensational film ever made’’; while Newseek’s John O’Hara called Kane the finest film’’ he’d ever seen.
Kane was nominated for 9 Academy Awards, but only came away with one statue; for Best Screenplay.
Since it was no secret that Charles Foster Kane was loosely based on William Randolph Hearst, the powerful business magnate and newspaper publisher refused to allow RKO Pictures to advertise in his newspapers.
Hearst, in fact, went to great lengths to suppress the film from being released and labeled Welles a Communist.’’ Welles himself found himself under the radar of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Radio City Music Hall was even afraid to show the film, while RKO struggled mightily to find theaters to show it.
(The film)… ended up losing more than $150,000; while Welles career suffered immeasurably by his refusing to cave into pressures from Hearst; film studios were reluctant to hire this gifted wunderkind for future films, not even to direct.
In 1998 and 2007, Citizen Kane was ranked No.1 on the list of the American Film Institute’s 100 greatest films of all time.”
What the second dog sees behind the lead dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race…
Liverlips McCracken
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5 months ago
Cleo is not without cause in this instance. She may be overreacting just a tad, but not without cause. She, after all, was merely sleeping peacefully beneath a tree. No squirrel pursuit or other assault going on. The Evil Brown Squirrel – dare I call it the EBS?- instigated the conflict.
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Now comes the part they love — the towel drying!
I have a sneaky suspicion that we’ve come at bath time.
Yes… you can tell cos they’re… shh … naked.
Or, as they say in the webcomic ‘Carry On’, they are:
“In the Fluff”
I’m well into Carry On right now.
I finished my 2nd dive through Slack Worm’s archives.
Im going to need to discover somehting new.
Try archive.org
Have you tried ‘Sabrina Online’? She’s a skunk who wears glasses, likes Amiga computers, and works with some interesting characters.
https://www.sabrina-online.com/index.html
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Up to date on Slack Wyrm, and nearly finished my second run through the archives of ‘Carry On’. Noticed some details and info that I missed first time through.
I’ll probably do a second run through ‘Sabrina’ and ‘Freefall’ at some point in the near future, plus there are some others I want to look at too.
Wow. Eight. That’s gotta be one tired momma…
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Some days are like that.
Just opened her electric bill.
A Dear Jane letter?
on set, “It happened One Night’- 1934. (won best picture)
Ah, yes! The risque towel scene!
The Wall of Jericho.
.90 years old and it’s still a great movie.
Risque for those 30s but surprisingly puritan, in its way, for these 20s…
Funny in both.
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Yes… No “the” though.
cell phones in the seventies
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Orson Welles, arriving at the premiere of Citizen Kane, in 1941, which he wrote, directed, and starred in…. And he’s 25 years old!
Amazing to see him getting out of an ordinary cab…. these days it would be a limo, surrounded by crowds, and paparazzi. Then again, this was his first feature film, so maybe he wasn’t that famous yet.
Okay…. I found this:
……..
“May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane premieres at the RKO Palace on Broadway in New York City.
The film … is met with heaps of praise by film critics. The New York Times wrote that
it came close to being the most sensational film ever made’’; while Newseek’s John O’Hara called Kanethe finest film’’ he’d ever seen.Kane was nominated for 9 Academy Awards, but only came away with one statue; for Best Screenplay.
Since it was no secret that Charles Foster Kane was loosely based on William Randolph Hearst, the powerful business magnate and newspaper publisher refused to allow RKO Pictures to advertise in his newspapers.
Hearst, in fact, went to great lengths to suppress the film from being released and labeled Welles a
Communist.’’ Welles himself found himself under the radar of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.Radio City Music Hall was even afraid to show the film, while RKO struggled mightily to find theaters to show it.
(The film)… ended up losing more than $150,000; while Welles career suffered immeasurably by his refusing to cave into pressures from Hearst; film studios were reluctant to hire this gifted wunderkind for future films, not even to direct.
In 1998 and 2007, Citizen Kane was ranked No.1 on the list of the American Film Institute’s 100 greatest films of all time.”
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Hah!
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NOPE!
You’ll have a long time to think about how dumb you were on the way down!
Idiot.
My first thought exactly.
I get nervous just looking at the picture…. especially when she slides closer to the edge.
On a downhill slope!
“Look, Ma, no hands!”
“Look, kid, no brains.”
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Hey, the family’s gotta eat! I’ll go work at the mine.
Who needs unions?
Sadly, this was the way of life back at the turn of THAT century, even in the Western World…
And, yet, we hear of this sort of exploitation still occurring… Here… and elsewhere…
In some ways, civilization has not progressed very far…
Are we not “Our Brother’s keeper”?
I struggle…
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Is the diver trying to give the impression that they are leading this fish convention?
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In the tree!
First, find Cleo’s head. Then, look up.
I can’t stop seeing all the eyes as those stick-on clear plastic ones, the googly eyes with the loose black dot inside.
All the animals look very much alike… But the squirrel…
Has yellow, rounder cheeks, a tiny buck tooth… and two small ears that are very close together.
I found it fairly quickly.
Found it.
on set ‘On the town’ -1949
A little help:
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Eeeeeek!
Those are bees.
About .73 zillion bees.
That’s why I said “eeek!”
Now you know where they all disappeared to…
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“She seems nice…”
Nothin’ but class, here on Cleo and Company.
What the second dog sees behind the lead dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race…
Cleo is not without cause in this instance. She may be overreacting just a tad, but not without cause. She, after all, was merely sleeping peacefully beneath a tree. No squirrel pursuit or other assault going on. The Evil Brown Squirrel – dare I call it the EBS?- instigated the conflict.
That requires believing that what we saw in the first 7 or 8 panels was reality, and not Cleo’s version, as related to Clara.
I still have my doubts, and Clara might too.
Cos, you know, the strip is called “Cleo and Company”… and she does have a certain amount of control.
That Nighthawks guy… he draws it… but it’s not called “Nighthawks and Company”, is it?
I have a feeling that Cleo calls the shots.
Tactical Assault Possums.
It’s interesting to learn that those things aren’t insects, but related to lobsters.
And their cousins in the ocean get big!
https://www.wowkorea.live/news/read/413677.html
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”