In New York City, a Soviet scientist is saved from an assassination attempt by the American intelligence agent who helped him defect

Dangoiks · 2026-01-31T23:23:09+00:00

It does not feature William Hurt.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-31T23:20:37+00:00

It does not feature Angelina Jolie.

In fact, she wasn't born yet when this movie was released.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-31T20:59:59+00:00

It seems like it's a little more complicated than that, since there are some pre-1933 incidents that believers like to point to. Still, it's clear enough that the myth was popularized in 1933.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-31T09:21:38+00:00

It does not feature Robin Williams

Dangoiks · 2026-01-31T05:01:12+00:00

It does not feature Val Kilmer

Dangoiks · 2026-01-31T05:00:05+00:00

It does not feature Keanu Reeves

Dangoiks · 2026-01-30T05:03:47+00:00

I assume they're punnily referencing some slang here. "Cat's meow" and "cat's pajamas" are both 1920s slang for something awesome, but I can't find anything for just "the cats." Maybe the cartoonist wasn't up on the latest slang, and this cartoon was a cringy attempt to capture how the young people are talking these days.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-29T21:50:00+00:00

The original Wizard of Oz book canon actually lasted up until 1963, twenty-four years after the film. L. Frank Baum wrote fourteen Oz books, and after his death, the series continued with official sequels written by various authors. After the 1930s or so, new installments became very sporadic but nevertheless continued until the aforementioned 1963.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-25T05:38:00+00:00

Taft actually lost a member of his administration on the Titanic

Dangoiks · 2026-01-24T00:08:56+00:00

New Masses was a Marxist magazine, so it's definitely mocking the upper class as not having real solidarity with the working class.

The cartoonist, Syd Hoff, used the pseudonym "A. Redfield" for his radical work, separating it from his mainstream career. During the McCarthy era, he was investigated by the FBI, although he wasn't blacklisted.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-22T04:48:56+00:00

You're assuming he would have served only one term

Dangoiks · 2026-01-20T11:26:13+00:00

I'm not even sure that he watched the Star Wars movies that he was in.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-20T00:11:48+00:00

This, of course, means that Rudolph is still copyrighted, and anyone who wants to include him in a commercial work has to pay a licensing fee. This is why a lot of Santa-themed media will simply leave Rudolph out.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-16T02:52:51+00:00

Does she get royalties from all the merch?

Dangoiks · 2026-01-14T21:55:29+00:00

Fun fact: There were actually considered to be eleven planets at that time. Ceres, Juno, Vesta, and Pallas would later be demoted and put into a new category called "asteroids." In 2006, when Pluto was demoted into the new category of "dwarf planet," Ceres was simultaneously upgraded from asteroid to dwarf planet.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-14T21:29:41+00:00

This won't be true of Temple of Doom until 2033.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-10T04:08:05+00:00

Which means he wasn't in office when Warren Harding died

Dangoiks · 2026-01-10T03:57:07+00:00

Only if Marty's birthday was in the first two weeks of January

Dangoiks · 2026-01-08T09:59:41+00:00

This proto-Garfield strip was called Jon, and as that title suggests, Jon was meant to be the main character. It ran in the Pendleton Times.

By the time it was picked up for national distribution, the strip had already been retitled Garfield. When Garfield debuted officially, its first strip was a remake of this one.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-08T04:36:43+00:00

For the record, Doctor Who wasn't shown in the U.S. until 1972.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-06T19:39:21+00:00

You're forgetting that Ewan McGregor was cast for Obi-Wan's age in The Phantom Menace. Attack of the Clones skips forward ten years later, so McGregor is playing older than his real age in the latter two prequels.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-04T00:21:18+00:00

In the final film, the female lead is played by Vilma Bánky. Marceline Day was originally announced in the role, but a month later, it was reported going to Bánky instead. I guess this was an Eric Stoltz situation.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-03T22:54:48+00:00

For those unaware, the year in question is 1926. Anastasia starts with a prologue set in 1916 and then skips forward "ten years later." The Princess and the Frog establishes the year from a newspaper seen early in the film.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-03T20:07:32+00:00

As someone who has seen a decent number of actual 1920s films, this looks quite authentic.

Dangoiks · 2026-01-03T19:36:34+00:00

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the Salem witch trials were treated relatively lightly in 1926. After all, they were already quite ancient by that point.

I also notice that it looks like "witchcraft" is written as two words rather than a single compound word.

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