JFK, Blown Away
Blogging about conspiracy theories Monday brought to mind one chapter of my Screen Enemies of the American Way, discussing the way movies and TV have handled John F. Kennedy’s assassination, …
Month: April 2023
Paranoia, paranoia everybody’s coming to get me
Working on my book about paranoia in film, I inevitably wound up reading a lot about it in real life. Not clinical paranoia but political paranoia. As the historian Richard …
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #29: ‘Sunday’s Second Thoughts’
Hey, it’s another column with a link to one we’ve already posted here!
Al Jaffee R.I.P.
Al Jaffee, the genius behind many great features at MAD Magazine, as died at age 102. I consider him the man who installed my sense of humor. In 1968, I was 9-1/2 years old when I was sent to spend the summer with my grandparents in Massachusetts. One fine summer day, my uncle Dickie cane home and handed me a copy of MAD #121, featuring Alfred E. Neuman done up as Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi being carried by the Beatles. I was a MAD devotee from then on through my childhood and young adulthood. One of the artist-writers I quickly began to look for in every issue was Al Jaffee.