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Friday, May 22, 2009

Yesterday is Tomorrow

Revisiting Little Orphan Annie. (Via Serge) To quote:
The strip, launched in 1924, quickly became a huge success and a pop culture landmark. It was also one of the few popular voices raised in opposition to the New Deal.

The treacly 1977 Broadway musical Annie and the film adaptation that followed five years later glorified a lovable Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Annie creator Harold Gray (1894–1968) would have been appalled.

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