Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 13, 1971
December 12, 1971
December 14, 1971
Transcript:
Mark: Hey, Mike, do you and B.D. want to go to a movie tonight? Mike: Hey, B.D., want to go to a flick tonight? B.D.: Sorry! I'm reading. Mike: Reading? What are you reading? B.D.: "Love story," "War and Peace," "Crime In America," "Zelda," and "Deliverance." Mike: His copy of reader's digest must have arrived this morning....
trncobrien Premium Member over 14 years ago
“Love Story” by Erich Segal was included in the Winter 1971 volume of Reader’s Digest Condensed Books. “War and Peace” is of course by Leo Tolstoy. The other books are likely the then-recently-published titles “Crime in America” by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, “Zelda” by Nancy Milford (a bio of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife) and “Deliverance” by James Dickey (the basis for the Burt Reynolds movie).
PatConolly over 13 years ago
and Erich Segal was one of Trudeau’s professors at Yale, and wrote the foreward to the first collection of Doonesbury strips.
racerxyz about 9 years ago
Neat tidbits.Thank you both, it makes this more interesting and relevant.
childe_of_pan over 5 years ago
I have never forgiven RD for the musical(!) version they did of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.