tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post8140396013554402807..comments2023-11-03T11:37:13.579-04:00Comments on Something Old, Nothing New: Razzle Dazzle 'EmJaime J. Weinmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15128500411119962998noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-70877968795790281562006-12-24T20:55:00.000-05:002006-12-24T20:55:00.000-05:00I went searching for that Citizen Kane song and wa...I went searching for that <I>Citizen Kane</I> song and was totally surprised to find that I wrote it. I didn't remember it at all. But here it is:<br /><br />KANE:<br />I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,<br />That would be a grand thing to do.<br />My paper could report on wars,<br />And if the nation's short on wars,<br />Then I could be the smart one<br />Who'd start one or two!<br /><br />THATCHER:<br />He thinks it would be fun to run a newspaper,<br />Aren't these very fine goings-on!<br />The fortune I made strong for him<br />Will not last very long for him;<br />He'll spend and blow and spill it<br />Until it is gone!<br /><br />LELAND:<br />If Charlie starts running some newspapers,<br />That could be fine for his friends,<br />As long as he doesn't abuse papers<br />For his own unethical ends.<br />(I'm so moral!)<br /><br />KANE:<br />I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,<br />Editing and having my say--<br /><br />CARTER<br />To the masses he will pander, <br />Printing gossip, lies and slander--<br /><br />LELAND:<br />He'll get safer, he'll get blander--<br /><br />THATCHER:<br />He'll print Commie propagander--<br /><br />KANE:<br />But no mission could be grander<br />Than the one that's on its way:<br />I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,<br />Twenty-four hours a day!Jaime J. Weinmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15128500411119962998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-10613474652059924802006-12-24T20:44:00.000-05:002006-12-24T20:44:00.000-05:00Usenet had some great stuff. At one of the sites, ...Usenet had some great stuff. At one of the sites, I forget which one, there was discussion of reports that a Broadway musical based on "Citizen Kane" would be made, and someone created lyrics to a "song" titled "I Think It Would Be Fun To Run A Newspaper." It was hilarious; you could imagine someone like Rex Harrison or Robert Preston performing it as comic relief. I wish I had copied it.VP81955https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792390726196611188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-2673484834857799142006-12-24T19:32:00.000-05:002006-12-24T19:32:00.000-05:00What a pleasure to see one of the old alt.tv.anima...What a pleasure to see one of the old alt.tv.animaniacs parodies brought back.<br />I was a little too young to really get into the a.t.a! community back in the day... but not for want of trying.<br />Who was Sally Smith? Where is she now? And was she really the knockout everybody said she was?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com