I'm never crazy about contemporary authors reviving classic characters, but some folks may be interested in a new work featuring P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster penned by Sebastian Faulks.
Faulks previously wrote "
Devil May Care," featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond.
“Jeeves and the Wedding Bells," to be
released in the United States on Nov. 5, St. Martin’s Press said on
Tuesday...The new book chronicles their latest adventure in a “comic work worthy of the master himself,” St. Martin’s said in a statement.
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A woman dressed as Marvel Comics' She Hulk
allegedly assaulted a teen outside a McDonald's restaurant in New York City earlier this week.
Police said that at the time of the incident – just after 3am on
Friday, April 26 – the woman suspected of the assault was covered in
green body paint with dyed red hair.
But it is believed she was a white woman, in her late teens or early twenties and around 5ft 8in tall with a medium build.
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Spy Vibe posts a nice birthday tribute to the multi-talented Orson Welles.
I like this interview exchange between Welles and fellow movie director (and major Welles fan) Peter Bagdonovich regarding Welles' days starring on "The Shadow" radio series.
OW: Lamont Cranston, that was me.
PB: You didn't write those things?
OW:
My God, I didn't even know what was going to happen to me while I was
in 'em. Not rehearsing- which was part of my deal with Blue Coal- the
sponsor, made it so much more interesting. When I was thrown down the
well or into some fiendish snake pit, I never knew how I'd get out.
PB: You had nothing to do with that marvelous opening speech-
OW: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men...?" Well, I said it every week for years.
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Via Booksteve's fab
1966: My Favorite Year blog: I love this fan-made video featuring a tune from Ken Nordine's classic
Colors LP.
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Scientific American profiles novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart, whose mystery novel "The Bat," inspired Batman. Turns out that's just one of many of her accomplishments.
She was a wife and mother; a nurse, feminist, adventuress, playwright,
comedy writer, war correspondent, advocate for Native American rights
who was initiated into the Blackfoot Tribe. She marched for women’s
suffrage. She wrote about the injustice of wife-beating long before it
was popular to take up such a cause. She was a breast cancer survivor
who advocated for breast exams in an age when such things weren’t often
talked about. She was the first female war correspondent on the
Belgian Front in World War I; King Albert chose her to take his first
statement on the war. She crossed the Cascades on horseback over a
little-explored pass that nearly killed her, and floated uncharted
rapids on the Flathead River in a wooden boat.
