This is the first time all of our main cast of characters (at least, the ones we’ve introduced so far) have all been in the same place at the same time! So to celebrate, have a desktop background:
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Transcript: English
PANEL 1
Long shot of the kids walking in a row through the bar.
Effie: Well I must be spifflicated. What are my kids doing here?
PANEL 2
Willy: We come seeking knowledge.
Wally: Yeah, what’s the surprise, Bee!
PANEL 3
Bee: Oh my! I never did tell you, did I? But I don’t know if you three can be back here. Alton?
PANEL 4
Alton: Do you kids like jokes?
PANEL 5
Wally:
Love ‘em.
PANEL 6
Alton:
They’re fine.
HA! I was going to say “Yaaaay full-cast shot! Desktops, please!” but then read your post. SO on the ball!
Glad you like! Did I cover your resolution? I looked up which ones were most popular but I can resize it to whatever if you need it!
I think I want Viola’s dress and I’d love that first panel as a poster!
Hmmm good idea! I’ll look into it…
If you do merch… ship internationally? Pretty please?
Yes ma’am!
I come from Girls with Slingshots, have read the archive and…errgggh, hang on a second. *Drags in boxes of books and his comfy chair, puffs out a labored breath, and looks around for room for his 46-inch widescreen TV, DVD player, and VCR. Yes, VCR. “The Glass Menagerie,” directed by Paul Newman and starring Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, and James Naughton still isn’t available on DVD.*
Yeah, this looks like a good place to never leave. It’s the cat’s pajamas!
Whoa! I watched that in high school English class and I didn’t know it was directed by Paul Newman (or that Joanne Woodward was in it…or who Joanne Woodward was back then, oh, high school me)! It’s only on video, SERIOUSLY? This is unspeakably depressing! Of course now that you say that all I wanna do is watch it!
Anyway thank you so much, glad you like the comic!!
Me too. 11th grade English class at Hollywood Hills High School in Hollywood, Florida. Malkovich was already my favorite actor at the time because of “Of Mice and Men” in 10th grade English class at Flanagan High School in Pembroke Pines, Florida (I went where my mom went since she worked at my high school and then moved to Hollywood Hills High), just the one scene when Malkovich as Lenny is towering over Casey Siemaszko as Curly, breaking his hand. That intensity on his face made me think, “Whoa, he’s serious business.”
“The Glass Menagerie” became my favorite play because of the movie and because of my English teacher, Roberta Little, who sought opinions from her students, and never belittled them. To her, every opinion was important because it could lead into new insight that could produce a different line of discussion. Plus she was passionate about what she taught, which was a huge factor.
But yep, still on video. I paid $27 for a good used copy from Amazon Marketplace because I really wanted to see it again, but on a TV instead of YouTube, and to have it in my collection. Lately, besides Warner Archive which makes DVDs-on-demand of movies that likely wouldn’t be released in massive special editions, Sony has started its own line, and so has 20th Century Fox, but I think the rights still lie with Universal, though I’m hoping Sony surprises me. Maybe the rights drifted to them or some other label that has the rights that I never suspected. I just keep hoping, and it’s on my wishlist, which includes “I Ought to Be in Pictures,” starring Walter Matthau, Dinah Manoff, and Ann-Margret (an adaptation of a play by Neil Simon, my favorite playwright)—though I think that may come soon, what with Fox having its own DVD-on-demand division—and one day a Criterion Collection edition of the Charles Bukowski-scripted “Barfly,” starring Mickey Rourke. It’s impossible to find it on DVD now, and not have to pay a few body parts for it, so still I wait for that too.
The comic is incredible, lively and so much fun. And it shows that you really love the time period. The one thing I hate about most Hollywood-centered novels is how outrageous the names of fictional famous actors are, like authors think that if they sound surreal enough, they fit because they believe Hollywood is exactly like that. But you get it completely right. I can believe that a Reginald the Duck could be a star in Hollywood. I can believe that Bee is happy just to be part of Reginald’s entourage in her quest for stardom. It’s much more interesting than the usual waiter gigs which are undoubtedly still around.
Thank you so much for Alleged Whiskey. If Prohibition is still taught in history classes, Alleged Whiskey should be required reading to show an example of what Prohibition caused. It would be a lot of fun for those students and could lead to further interest in the real-life aspects.
I didn’t know John Malkovich was in an adaptation of Of Mice and Men! And I’ve never seen “I Ought to Be in Pictures” but I love Walter Matthau. You should write film recommendations, haha! How will I ever find these impossible-to-get movies, though!
And thank you again! That is so nice! We both put a lot of work into researching the time period and it is so cool for someone to notice the details!
I did just that for 10 years. I started with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Teentime pages in the back of their weekend Showtime section through middle school and high school, and then wrote for Film Threat (www.filmthreat.com), then for the parent-oriented review site Screen It (www.screenit.com), and in between, spent a few years as a member of the Online Film Critics Society, until I gave it up, as well as my ambition to be a full-time film critic somewhere because I got tired of the hamster-wheel aspect, how January was the time for movies that Hollywood was embarrassed to release otherwise, then summer was for the big-budget loud movies, and then autumn and winter were for the equally loud awards season. So instead, I co-wrote my first book and saw it published (http://www.amazon.com/Rory-Leighton-Aronsky/e/B006OEZWWW/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1341084278&sr=1-2-ent), and am working on a book about the making of the ’70s “Airport” movies with another co-author, and after that, I’m done with Hollywood. I want to write countless other books and novels that have no connection to Hollywood, including presidential history (one of my passions) and Las Vegas, since my family and I are moving there in the next two months, and it’s the hedonistic paradise I’ve always wanted to live in. But as a resident, not a tourist, because if residents live like tourists, we’d all be dead inside a week and a half. I love that Las Vegas works in many ways to preserve its history, even as the city continually changes, and I want to contribute to that through the books I want to write about the city, including two novels set in late 1940s Vegas.
However, I do still write reviews, though as relaxation while I’m working on my books (http://www.moviegazetteonline.com/author/rorya/). It’s a lot more fun this way.
“Of Mice and Men” is still widely available on DVD, and available online, thanks to the concerted efforts of English teachers who undoubtedly still have it as part of their curriculum. “I Ought to Be in Pictures” is just a matter of waiting because Fox should have it as part of their DVD-on-demand program soon. I have no insider information, but it seems logical now.
Through presidential history, I’m also very interested in all time periods, and the late ’20s is one of my favorites because of Herbert Hoover following Calvin Coolidge, and it’s quite a marked contrast. So once I started reading “Alleged Whiskey,” it was no wonder I couldn’t stop.