Saturday, April 8, 2006

Recommended Reading

Seymour Hersh on the prospects for a war in Iran.

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Everybody's Doing It...

Gilbert Gottfried is blogging.

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This Morning's Burning Question

A couple of folks have written in to ask me if one of the two ladies in this morn's video clip — the one on the left — is Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane on the Superman TV series. I don't know. It looks a little like her but I'm not sure and I don't see any mention of it in her authorized biography, the pages of which I just flipped through. So decide for yourself...or someone ask her. (One bit of possible evidence: Ms. Neill says she made her movie debut after she signed her first studio contract in 1943 with Paramount. William Frawley wasn't working for Paramount at the time so the film probably was not made there. But it also could have been made before '43 — say, at Universal or Republic or Columbia — studios for which Frawley was freelancing — and Noel just didn't recall being hired for what must have been only a few hours or work. Or maybe it isn't her.)

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Today's Video Link

Hmm...you know what would make a good video link for this morning? Three minutes of World War II musical propaganda telling Americans how we're going to kick Hitler's ass. And what would make it even better is if it was performed by the guy who later played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy.

But where would we find such a thing?

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