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Sunday, April 17, 2022
IT'S A BLUNDERFUL LIFE
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
dir: Frank Capra
IT'S A BLUNDERFUL LIFE
MAD #350, October 1996
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
Famous film shown every Christmas of George Bailey (James Stewart) contemplating suicide because he wasn't able to make a payment to the bank on time, angel Clarence (Henry Travers) reflects on his whole life's story and show's him life's worth living, and he's able to foil banker Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore). The story is retold again through the life of Bill Clinton with Richard Nixon as the angel.
The common ground of all the stars on the Yale walkway is that those people were students there. Hillary Clinton started as a Watergate lawyer.
“But I didn't inhale” was how Clinton dodged charges of having smoked marijuana. Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones were women he was accused of having sexually assaulted. George H.W. Bush made headlines by throwing up on the Prime Minister of Japan.
Dan Quayle's big scandal was correcting a student by spelling 'potato' with an E. “Don't ask, don't tell” was Clinton's policy of appeasing both sides of allowing gays in the military. Whitewater was a failed real estate deal involving the Clintons that some believe to be a scam.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LAFF
Cracked #243, March 1989
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: Peter McDonnell
“I'm Chevy Chase and you're not” is how he would introduce himself when he did the news on Saturday Night Live. George's wife was Mary (Donna Reed).
The intro to this leaves out that George's brother is a caricature of Martin Short.
In the second-to-last panel of the Mad story, the people on the outside looking in are Sen. Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan, Gen. Colin Powell, and Ross Perot.
Dole was the Republican nominee for president that year, having beaten Buchanan and others in the primary; Perot ran as an independent again, though nowhere near as successfully as when he first ran in 1992; and some top Republicans dearly wanted to draft Powell, but he never showed any interest in running for office.
In the second-to-last panel of the Mad story, the people on the outside looking in are Sen. Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan, Gen. Colin Powell, and Ross Perot.
ReplyDeleteDole was the Republican nominee for president that year, having beaten Buchanan and others in the primary; Perot ran as an independent again, though nowhere near as successfully as when he first ran in 1992; and some top Republicans dearly wanted to draft Powell, but he never showed any interest in running for office.