Okay, you're all in luck. I'll stop gassing on about my Drawing the Line book tour for a minute. That's because I want to tell you about my other book. On December 30th, Paul Buhle's massive, three-volume, 9,000 page anthology
Jews in American Popular Culture is coming out.



This is the first attempt to trace the contributions of Jewish Americans in the fields of Theatre, Fiction, Cinema, Television, Poetry, The Visual Arts, the Performing Arts and much more. Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Ish Kabibble, Al Jolson, Lauren Bacall, Jack Benny, Harvey Pekar, R.Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Leonard Nimoy and many many more.

The anthology is the work of a dozen authors. I was invited to write Chapter 7. Jews in American Animation. So I get to talk about Max and Dave Fleischer, Izzy Klein, Joe Grant, Lorna Cook, Alex Kuperschmidt and Eric Goldberg. I also take on the issue of whether or not Walt Disney was Anti-Semitic.

Now, the book sells at $300 bux, so it's not exactly light reading. But if you have the discretionary income, it's a great investment for your mizpoche at home. It is now available for Pre-order. Check out the details at[link]http://www.amazon.com/American-Popular-Culture-Three-Volumes/
dp/0275987930/sr=1-2/qid=1165027401/ref=sr_1_2/104-8000442-1240757?
ie=UTF8&s=books[/link]
If the Link doesn't work do a search on the editor's name, Paul Buhle.

Three Hundred Bux to read more Sito bullsh*t? Screw that!"
with apologies to Harvey Pekar and R. Crumb

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Birthdays: George Seurat, Charles Ringling, Julie Harris, Gianni Verasce, Ray Walston- the original My Favorite Martian, Monica Seles, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lucy Liu, Britney Spears is 25

1697- Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London reopened. It was restored by Christopher Wren after being destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.

1854-Napoleon III was Napoleon's nephew and since 1848 legally elected President of the Second French Republic. But he decided that he wanted to be an Emperor like his uncle so he seized dictatorial power and locked up all dissenters like Victor Hugo, Alex DeTocqueville and cartoonist Honore' Daumier. gotta watch them cartoonists...

1863- The dome of the U.S. Capitol completed as the Goddess of Freedom is hoisted up into place.

1877- Camille Saint Saens opera “Samson & Dalila” premiered in Weimar.

1901- Mr. King Gillette invented the safety razor.

1956- Fidel Castro with 88 followers trained in guerrilla style fighting landed on the beach in Cuba and melted into the mountains. This group would be the core of a revolution that by 1959 would topple the US backed regime of dictator Fulgensio Batista and upset the world balance of power. The ramshackle boat Fidel, Che and his buddies made the crossing over from Mexico in was called the Granma.

1994- LA jury found Heidi Fleiss ‘The Hollywood Madam” guilty of running a prostitution ring.