Pop Culture from an Alternate Dimension

     Quentin Tarantino's movie  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follows the career of an actor named Rick Dalton, as played by Leonardo DiCaprio. His early break a tv western called Bounty Law . It is similar to Steve McQueen's series Wanted: Dead or Alive. A s an aside, Damian Lewis has a cameo as Steve McQueen in the movie. Tarantino has said he would be interested in making an actual tv series of Bounty Law  and has already written five episodes. Until that happens, you'll have to make do with this DVD cover from a dimension where Rick Dalton really was a star.     

       The cover of Amazing Fantasy comics #15 is a famous image. Jack Kirby's drawing of Spider-Man swinging among the skyscrapers with someone under his arm was the first time people saw the web-slinger in 1962. However, Steve Ditko, who did the interior art, had also drawn a cover but it was vetoed in favor of a cover by Kirby. In 2007, Jonathan Ross interviewed Ditko and the artist mentioned that Spider-Man was originally supposed be the secondary colors of orange and purple instead of the primary colors of red and blue. Co-incidently, there was a comic character in 1941 called The Spider Queen who wore red and blue, and also had web-shooting bracelets.       In 2008, the Library of Congress anonymously received Ditko's original artwork for that first Spider-Man story and there was another surprise. Under the partly cemented logo and white gouache was a much more webby header; that I recreated as well as cleaning up and re-coloring the origin...

        I've done a compilation of songs that are the band's name and songs that are the name of other musicians, so it's only natural that this week its songs with names of actor's names in the title. As happened last time, some songs are about the person (like The Eagles' "James Dean"), some use the actor for comparison (such as Picture This' "Winona Ryder") and the Gorillaz song "Clint Eastwood" doesn't even mention him.      Don't worry, this is the last I will do on this type of topic.... for now. Listen to the songs here:  Songs with Actor's Names in Title - YouTube