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≡ Category: Literature | ≅ 2 Comments
Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Ernest Hemingway. In remembrance, we bring you the writer’s own voice from 1954, reading his Nobel Prize acceptance speech at a radio station in Havana, Cuba. Hemingway’s influence on Twentieth Century literature was profound, both for the originality of his prose and the tragic alienation of [...]
≡ Category: Music, Television | ≅ 2 Comments
What’s the best Japanese commercial ever? The Feed gives the blue ribbon to this 1992 commercial featuring James Brown, the Godfather of Soul. “Sex Machine” put in the service of selling miso soup. How can you not like that (even if you’re cringing just a little)? Meanwhile, our vote (and, let’s be frank, we’re not [...]
≡ Category: Animation, History | ≅ 1 Comment
The artist and cartoon pioneer Winsor McCay (1869?-1934) did not make the world’s first animated film. That distinction goes to Emile Cohl and his 76-second long Fantasmagorie (1908). But McKay, who was also the author of the popular weekly Little Nemo comic strips, made a contribution to cartoons that is arguably even more important. Sweet, mischievous Gertie, [...]
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