Graphic Grandeur (To Thy Own Self Beguile Edition)

 

Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was born on this day in 1903 (he died about five months short of 100 in 2003.) He caricatured a lot of famous people in his lifetime, including...

...himself.

He actually looks a bit more approachable in the photograph, but then he liked to exaggerate.

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

 

Roy Cohn and a friend, 1954.

Roy Cohn and a friend, 1978.

You never can tell with The Powers That Be, so please don't let them keep you from celebrating Pride Month.

 

Quips and Quotations (Everybody's Learning How Edition)

 

1942-2025

I wasn't aware those early songs defined California so well until much later in my career. I certainly didn't set out to do it. I wasn't into surfing at all. My brother Dennis gave me all the jargon I needed to write the songs. He was the surfer and I was the songwriter.

--Brian Wilson

(Looks like surf's down--Kirk)

Different Folks

 

Time out for some old school DEI:

Sly Stone 1943-2025

Imagineer That

 

Artist's conception. Copyright 2025 Brent Spiner Walt Disney Company

In the latest in non-apocalyptic news, Walt Disney's granddaughter Joanna Miller has complained about plans to present an animatronic version of her grandpa at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California next month, stating that it's "dehumanizing". I don't have a Pluto in this fight, but I would like to say... 

...if it's good enough for Abe Lincoln...

Quips and Quotations (Mobile Army Edition)

 

I mean, certain things had to remain the same. She had to remain one of the antagonists because that was the structure of the show. In the second season, we saw for the first time that she was unhappy with Frank and wanted more from her life. Then around the third or fourth year, in an episode called "The Nurses" (1976), Hot Lips gave the nurses a speech telling them how lonely she was because she was in charge and that's the way it was, so she couldn't really have any friends. Her marriage and her divorce changed her. Her affair with Hawkeye in "Comrades in Arms: Part 1" (1977) changed both characters, so that they were never really rivals again.

--Loretta Swit, Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on MASH

1937-2025