A Fistful of Hollars A Marriage Made Dedicated to Humor

 July 29, 2024

     I asked Dan The Man Harshberger to create a memorable T-Shirt design to celebrate the forthcoming dedication of the historical marker being unveiled on Montezuma Street in Prescott on August 14. Here is what Dan came up with.

  Brad Courtney, the historian who is leading the charge for the historical marker, ordered a dozen.    And you?

   On Sunday, I celebrated a milestone with this cutie.

   We have been married for 45 years. And, as I told our kids, at least 17 of those years have been absolutely blissful.

   I've been boning up on my Clint flicks, getting ready for the Payson Film Festival. And it has been a ton of fun.

A Fistful of Hollars

   Thanks to Paul Hoylen for sending me this video which is an update on the status of a remake of

 "Fistful of Dollars." 

  In the comments section, someone going by the handle @unkindestcut reminds us that:

"'Fistful of Dollars' was an unauthorized remake of 'Yojimbo.' 'Yojimbo' was basically an unauthorized adaptation of Hammett’s 'Red Harvest.' 'Last Man Standing' was an authorized remake of 'Yojimbo.'

   So, for starters, it's not an original concept, but then what is? But, beyond that, let me tell you why this film project will probably fail. They will hire the best writers and producers of drama that money can buy. Yes, of drama! And then they will study the structure of the Sergio Leone classic for clues, but they will blindly miss the most important aspect of the No. 1 Spaghetti Western and why it blew everything else out of the water in the Sixties.

"It's the humor, stupid."

—Old Cartoonist Saying

   Meanwhile, back to Bobbie Zimmerman for one last blast. As you may know, when Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize for Literature it didn't set well with a certain group of crafts people.

"Bob Dylan winning a Nobel in Literature is like Mrs. Fields being awarded 3 Michelin stars."

—Rabih Alameddine, a Lebanese novelist (see cartoonist quote above)