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This story is about a submarine. But to tell that story well, we need to zoom out a bit to understand the rescue and its personalities from a wider view. The good news is that what you’ll find here weaves together a vast mix of sources into a unified whole that’s never been available in one place before. The bad news is that it’s also almost 10,000 words, with 60+ footnotes.

In the ‘Snatch Game’ episode of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 2’, drag queen Alyssa Edwards portrays “Joan Crawford”. I put the name in quotes, not just because it is a character, but more a caricature of a character within a film that’s adapting a version of a real person through the eyes of a child. She’s all eyebrows, lips, quips, and energy. It’s hilarious, it’s campy, it’s indicative of the cult classic status that has sprung up around the film ‘Mommie Dearest’ (1981) over the past 41 years.

Welcome back to the Animation Obsessive newsletter! Thanks for tuning in. This week, our main feature is a dive into the fall and rise of John Hubley, a brilliant director persecuted during the Red Scare of the 1950s. His career was ruined — until he fought his way back to success on television. After that, stick around for animation news from around the world — and two anime films streaming right now.

Was the murderous Dan Scott redeemed by the end of “One Tree Hill”? And did he deserve to be? Across nine seasons and nearly 160 episodes, Dan was played by Paul Johansson, who had previously appeared as the cocky, smarmy John Sears in 13 episodes of “Beverly Hills, 90210.” He was introduced as the villain of “One Tree Hill” from its very first episode. Viewers learned he fathered sons with both his high school sweetheart Karen and college girlfriend Deb within months of one another… but was only parenting one of the boys.

Happy New Year everyone! 🎇🎆 I’ve long felt sorry for Southwark Bridge. Who ever talks about it? This is central London’s least used bridge, and always has been. It’s the span with no fan; the underclass overpass. It is a bridge of meagre renown. But that’s not really fair. Southwark Bridge is a characterful crossing, imbued with unique shapes and colours. It has also a history to compete with any of its neighbours, albeit a tragic one.

My first job out of college was as an “Exhibitions Assistant” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York. The role was, essentially, at the bottom of the museum hierarchy; I created spreadsheets, took notes in meetings, made photocopies and catalogued objects. I was paid $28,000 per year. At the time, the museum was in the midst of creating what-would-become a major exhibition about American Jews in the Second World War.

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My birthday was last week. To reward myself for a birth I had nothing to do with, I went to one of the best restaurants in America, but the spot that really made my month, the place that felt like the true gift to myself was not that restaurant. But that’s how it goes sometimes. That new seemingly great job opportunity turns out to be a boiler room pyramid scheme. The perfect partner turns out to be a serial killer.

(Note: This is part two of a three-part series on the effort to retroactively justify Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd. You can read part one here.) In my first post about the documentary The Fall of Minneapolis and a column by Coleman Hughes promoting it, I looked at the false claim that what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd couldn’t have been illegal because it was taught by the Minneapolis Police Department.