Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 12, 2014

Love this! Other actor must have been “Dr. Einstein” character.

Good morning fellow DT fans!

After the kiss, I am surprised that Vitamin even remembers his lines!

Vitamin is president Teddy Roosevelt. Woodrow Wilson hasn’t been elected yet. Plus, Howard Taft succeeded Teddy Roosevelt.

Vitamin is looking younger in his Teddy costume. I’m also surprised he recovered from the kiss so fast.

Vitamin actually voted for Teddy, didn’t he?

CHAAAAAAAARGE! :D

Good morning fans especially VistaBill. An interesting group of actors today. Have a blessed day all.

Morning, Tracyville!This is so cool.

today’s strip… besides a little interaction (read that as: “CREEPY INTERACTION”) between Vitamin and Kandikane, is pretty much a “throwaway strip” where nothing happens and othing is done to move the story along at all

Aw, that is sweet. I do hope that Kandikane doesn’t suffer the same fate as Snowflake.

Another stellar two-panel strip. We witness the peck on the cheek before following Vitamin to the stage. The detailed set design is another reminder of the very entertaining film. Bully!

@DaJellyBellyIf you are at all familiar with the play, the line for Jonathan is “Woodrow Wilson”.The reference to Taft comes much later in the script.

Smile It would be weird if “Gruesome” could make it as an actor.

Supposedly, he’s a natural. I assume when he said he was “sort of” an actor (or however he put it) he meant that he was acting like he was not a criminal and like he was someone he was not (in order to avoid being recognized, though his voice gave him away to his associate, Mel).

@Night-Gaunt49, if your cable system gets TCM, Arsenic and Old Lace is scheduled for Tuesday, December 30 @ 8:30 AM (ET).

Years ago, my pre-teen son had a cold, dreary fall afternoon off from school and had a friend over. They opted for indoor entertainment, so I made brownies and put one of my favorite movies, “Arsenic and Old Lace” on for them as appropriate to the gloomy day and went about my business. A little later I was thrilled to hear them laughing uproariously at a movie I wasn’t sure they would even get. You really should try it some time.

The play was written in 1939 and the movie was released in 1944. It is loaded with contemporary jokes about Presidents, Brooklyn, the play itself. You have to watch for them. My favorite is when the Teddy Roosevelt character is talking with someone and laments, “Yes, my term will be done soon and that will be the last of the Roosevelts in the White House”, and the other character mutters, “That’s what you think!” Everything about this movie is just spot-on.

Yeah, being kissed for luck by a pretty girl is “creepy”. Right. What’s creepy is how some people can almost NEVER be positive about anything here…..

“Arsenic and Old Lace” is one of my favorite movies. It was also presented as one of our high school plays back in the 50s, and I have seen it played in two local Little Theaters. I taped it as a DVD years ago and have played it several times for my grandchildren (by their own request). It is outstanding in every way. Some have speculated on the “window seat” and I lean that way as the resting place for the janitor before his trip to the Panama Canal.

Everything happens in its own time.

Gosh, Miss Kandikane! I’m afraid your friend Vitamin isn’t going to survive many more kissy-poo incidents like this one! (Sure, I’m envious. What red-blooded Old Fart wouldn’t be?)

The rehearsal scene is great, too. I wonder if the Einstein-actor will be relevant to the greater story-arc or is just incidental? And does this thespian look a bit like Blaze Rize in drag? —Must be the haircut….