Cartoons Sunday

Plus: David Byrne's sex suit.

Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller on escapes under the Berlin Wall, “The Tunnels,” “Journeys With Beethoven,” and the recent award-winning “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” He has directed three documentary films since 2021 for PBS (including “Atomic Cover-up”) . He was #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy during the 1970s. You can subscribe to this newsletter for free.

Let’s start with a music pick as usual. Was so surprised, and happy, to find as a running gag in the new, fairly good and fun, Nick Cage movie, “Dream Scenario,” references to David Byrne’s old Big Suit—first as a kind of sexual fantasy for Cage and wife (the always wonderful Juliane Nicholson) and then its return at very end of movie. Which then followed by end credits with one of my favorite, but largely forgotten Talking Heads songs, “City of Dreams.” So here it is as heard in movie, plus an early solo Byrne live version.

The Sunday (Not So) Funnies

And finally, from Steve Brodner: