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Friday, April 26, 2024
THE WAY WE BORE
THE WAY WE WERE (1973)
dir:Sydney Pollack
MAD #168, July 1974
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
Katie Morosky (Barbara Streisand) is a political crusader working at a radio station in the 1940s. After a broadcast she goes out for drinks with her co-workers and runs into Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford), a passed out sailor on leave, who she once know in college.
For a few years Streisand was married to Elliott Gould, in the lower left panel.
The movie flashes back to their college days, when Katie spoke on behalf of the Communist party talking about the dangers of Hitler overseas to a mocking crowd.
Katie is working at a restaurant Hubbell, his friend J.J. (Bradford Dillman) and their girlfriends (I'm not being sexist by not naming them. They weren't named in the movie either) and make fun of her with their WASPishness and opposing political views. Despite this, Katie and Hubbell still hit it off at a college dance. In the forties, Katie brings home a sleeping Hubbell.
Katie's friend was played by James Woods, not well known enough to get the Drucker treatment yet.
During the backdrop World War II in New York City, the film shows how Katie and Hubbell's relationship consummates and blossoms. Hubbell is a sailor in the war but is really an aspiring novelist, which keeps them together despite political differences. She makes friends with his friends, which include old college mates.
Katie and Hubbell have arguments, then make up, and eventually move to Malibu where Hubbell becomes a screenwriter. It's during the Red Scare, all of Hollywood is under investigation, and Hubbell tells Katie to keep her political thoughts quiet for the sake of his career.
In the movie, they make a passing joke about how Katie would dress as Karl Marx at the costume party, which MAD must have missed.
The two finally realize politics is tearing their marriage apart and they get divorced. Fast forward to the sixties when the two meet again in New York City with he a TV writer and she still a political activist.
THE HECK WE WERE
Crazy #5, July 1974
w: Steve Gerber
a: Robert Graysmith
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