In the 1940’s newspaper journalists were referred to as Durantes, 'cause they were so nosy. That stopped in 1951 with the release of Citizen Kane, after which reporters were called very bad names.
There are only thirteen known copies of the film Citizen Kane. Any time someone successfully creates another copy, one of the existing thirteen copies vanishes without a trace, to maintain the balance.
Welles was highly impressed when he saw Night of the Living Dead in 1968 and he began plans with George Romero to make a Citizen Kane sequel in which Kane would rise from the dead and wreak havoc in the office of a modern newspaper. Welles described the proposed film as a satirical commentary on the state of journalism. Plans fell through when the pair could not obtain financing.
Citizen Kane was reimagined as a Saturday-morning cartoon series called Charlie and Friends, featuring a young Charles Foster Kane traveling the country with a ragtag group of zany friends solving mysteries and helping people. Some television historians consider it a forerunner of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You. Charlie and Friends ran for three episodes in 1961, and then a lawsuit filed by Orson Welles forced it off the air.
Scooby-Doo was originally a mouse called Mortimer. Mortimer evolved into 3 totally
different characters, namely Mickey Mouse, Scooby-Doo and Captain James T Kirk
out of Star Trek.
Reruns of Mortimer Mouse and the Lost Boomers was a huge nostalgia hit in Dark Web for several years ending in the 2080s when Bent Spork, a time traveling hacker, returned to the late 1960s to kill production in the planning stages. His family had been cheated from getting residuals.
The Matrix, a 2000’s era film about the Dark Web, is based on the real life of Mortimer Monroe who took so much acid he thought he was a mouse; thus earning nicknames such as “The Mouse”, “Cheddar Chip Dude” and “Shroomhead”.
The real-life Mortimer Mouse served a half-term as governor of Rhode Island in the early fifties, during which time he also invented a device that made it easier to buckle belt buckles, started in left field for the Boston Red Sox for a three-game home stand against the Yankees, wrote a biography of Dagwood Bumstead, and started an insurance company whose policies would pay the removal costs if a homeowner’s basement were to magically become filled with Grape Nuts cereal. He was impeached as governor for not doing any governor work.
In, “The Walking Dead,” The Governor could not have been re-elected to another term as walkers did not have the right to vote.
The Right To Vote was bestowed upon the American people by Santa Claus as an Arbor Day gift.
The holiday of Arbor Day is named for the wealthy-but-eccentric New Englander Ichabod Arbor, who celebrated his 60th birthday by getting married to a lovely maple tree.
Ichabod Arbor and his wife, Mabel the Maple, tried to go into the business of growing dildoes on his land but he had a problem with squatters.
Ichabod and Mabel’s business was saved by genetic modification using the DNA
from a pineapple, and they sold it lock, stock and barrel to Mabel’s cousin Jed Weeeems
for $600,000 ($.6.4M in today’s money) in 1968 (2022 in today’s years).
The Weeeems pineapple dildo didn’t sell because the scaly surface was just a bit too rough, but they made great electric swizzle sticks for tropical mixed drinks.
The Weeeems Swizzle Stick sold well in West Coast bars especially for drinks that women preferred. They were discontinued when it became a tendency for male patrons to giggle like Beavis and Butthead when women used it as a straw.
Beavis and Butthead were based on the real life characters Brian Cock-Wibble and
Bernard Artichoke who were 12th century professional hedge wafters from Scotland,
a small town in the north of England. They were executed by firing squid after having
wafted a 34 mile section of the Duke of Troon’s beech hedge without permission - although
it is thought that they were framed by the duke’s housekeeper in revenge for their having
started a malicious rumor about her umbrella.
The giant squid which attacks the Nautilus in the 1954 film adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was portrayed by over 100 high school students from the San Fernando Valley, who were specifically chosen for being slender enough to fit inside of the tentacle costumes.
The San Fernando Valley is not in fact a valley. The name was chosen by a PR firm because “it sounds bitchin’!”
PR, today, stands for public relations. But the phrase originated as Patsy Riddance Department of Standard Oil in the year 1880.
The year 1880 is today best remembered for three things: one, having actually happened the year following 1881; two, the birth of William Shakespeare, and three, a fanatical devotion to the pope.