Snow Edsel White?

Snow Edsel White?: We should start calling the new Snow White movie Snow Red. Why? Because there is a lot of red ink on the Disney balance sheet. Red as in losing money. This is the story: The studio’s remake of the 1937 animated classic suffered a…

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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) April 4, 2025

 We should start calling the new Snow White movie Snow Red. Why? Because there is a lot of red ink on the Disney balance sheet. Red as in losing money. This is the story:

The studio’s remake of the 1937 animated classic suffered a dismal box office opening on the weekend of Mar. 28, earning only $43 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada. This represented a huge drop-off from box office predictions in February that it would open to $85 million domestically.

With a $43 million opening, "Snow White" performed worse at the box office than the worst-performing live-action Disney remake up to that point, the 2019 "Dumbo" remake, which opened to $46 million.

The film’s poor opening extended to its second week, where it earned only $14.2 million domestically -- a 66% decline from its opening weekend. These numbers appeared all the more catastrophic considering the film had a budget of approximately $250 million -- making it one of the company's most expensive film productions in the last several years.

Who is getting fired over this movie? I don't know, but this may be the worst economic mistake since the Edsel. Remember the Edsel? It was a big flop too, and it was because they listened to the experts who always tell each other how smart they are.

What failed with this movie was two things:

First, don't mess with a classic. It never works. Why rewrite Beethoven's 5th Symphony? Just buy the CD, or download it, listen to it, love it, praise the composer, and then set out to write your own symphony. We love classics because they are. We don't need smart people outsmarting themselves.

Second, and perhaps more important, is that the people behind this move hate the country and its traditions. They have a vision of women that most women don't have. Women do not hate men unless they write scripts at Disney. Women, like my wife, sister, and cousins who grew up loving the movie were not happy seeing their favorite character turned into a feminist crusader.

So moral of the story? Leave the classics alone and try to create your own classic. Shame on any expert who supported this disaster and didn't defend the image that Walt Disney built over decades.

Let the red ink flow and I hope that the bean counters finally convince the experts that these attacks on our traditions are unproductive, i.e. go woke, go broke, they say!

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We remember Ray Fosse (1947-2021)

We say happy birthday to Ray Fosse who was born in Illinois on this day in 1947.   He broke with the Indians in 1967 and became the starting catcher in 1969.

In 1970, Fosse hit .307 with 18 HR & 61 RBI.   He also crashed with Pete Rose in the All Star Game that year.   Frankly, he was never the same after that collision.    Fosse retired in 1977 with a career .256 average in 924 games.

Ray died in 2021.

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April 4, 1960: "Ben Hur" with Charlton Heston won 11 awards.

It was a great night for "Ben Hur" at the 1960 awards.    In total, the film swept 11 of the 12 categories, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Charlton Heston). 

It's still a great movie all of these years later.   I catch it anytime I get a chance.    Finally, I did not know that the movie was based on a book written in the 19th century!

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April 4, 1974: Aaron hit # 714 on opening day

It was a big week for Aaron.

On opening day 1974, Hank Aaron hit # 714 off of Jack Billingham.   He tied Babe Ruth with a 3-run HR.   

A few days later, he hit # 715 in Atlanta in front of a national TV audience.

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April 4, 1968: We remember MLK

Maybe it's me but certain events are frozen in my memory and I recall them like it was yesterday.

As I remember, I was reading my brand new The Sporting News, the weekly sports newspaper that we used to read before ESPN or the internet.  My parents gave me a birthday subscription and I loved rushing to the mailbox to consume every bit of information.

At the time, I asked myself the classic pre-season questions:  Would Yaz and the 1967 Miracle Red Sox repeat?  Are the Cardinals now a dynasty?  

After all, they had won the World Series in 1964, 1967 and had Bob Gibson on top of their rotation.   

And then the phone rang.  It was my school buddy Harvey with the news that Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot in Memphis.

Then President Johnson spoke to the nation!  By a crazy coincidence, he had just announced days before that he would not be running for reelection in 1968.   

Then all hell broke loose.  Cities were burning from coast to coast.   I shared the frustration about Dr. King's assassination but did not understand what looting businesses had to do with the shooting.  My guess is that all of the chaos boosted Governor Wallace's campaign, or the "law and order" man that election.

Over the last years, we've created a national holiday to remember Dr. King and his words are heard over and over again.

Nevertheless, I've asked myself a simple question:   What would Dr. King say of the state of black America today?  the collapse of the black family?  the black on black crime?  the terrible black Democrat leadership that runs cities like Baltimore and Detroit?    the dependence on government programs?

We will never know but I'll submit that Dr. King would not be happy.

For sure he'd be reminding the "identity politics" Democrats to judge people on their character not the color of their skin.

Let me recommend this one Jason Riley.

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1949: Another anniversary for NATO

                                     

NATO has been in the news lately.  

You may have heard about Article 5 of the NATO agreement, or the mutual defense clause.

Or maybe you’ve heard that some member countries are not paying their way.  

Unfortunately, NATO is not much of an alliance anymore.  

To say the least, this is not what the US and President Truman had in mind when NATO was created in 1949.    

NATO was designed as a Western Alliance against the USSR.  The Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe and NATO defended the Europeans.

It worked well because there was a goal of containing communism.   

Today, the USSR is gone and Europe has a lot of self-inflicted wounds, from terrible birth rates to an unsustainable welfare state.

Going forward, NATO won’t survive as an alliance if the US continues to do all of the heavy lifting.   

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Tariffs and a word about Snow White

Tariffs hit stock market, Senator Booker speaks all day, Snow White losing money and Doris Day (1922-2021)

Senator, you talk too much

Senator, you talk too much: Imagine being the guy in the Senate TV control room responsible for recording Senator Cory Booker's speech. How did he stay awake? Did he have co-pilot so that he could catch a nap? Yes, the senator from New Jersey decided to go long and so he…

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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) April 3, 2025

 Imagine being the guy in the Senate TV control room responsible for recording Senator Cory Booker’s speech. How did he stay awake? Did he have a co-pilot so that he could catch a nap? Yes, the senator from New Jersey decided to go long, and so he did. This is the story:

Democrats have been struggling to energize their frustrated base since losing all three branches of government in the November 2024 election. 

Senator Cory Booker may have found a way.

For more than 25 hours, the New Jersey Democrat stood at the Senate lectern speaking against President Donald Trump’s policies in what may be the most dramatic and sustained public challenge to Trump’s agenda since his return to the White House.

Haven’t heard one that long since Senator Thurmond. At least Strom was talking about a specific issue: the 1957 Civil Rights Act.

Booker reminded us that this is not a partisan moment but rather a moral moment. Really, Senator? Well, many of us thought that it was a political speech intended to put your name out there at a time when Democrats aren’t crazy about anything except bashing Elon Musk.

Booker never gave a speech like this when President Biden opened the border or tolerated high crime rates. He didn’t mention any of that, which may explain what his fellow Senator Banks said about the party’s 27% approval.

Like a runner preparing for a marathon, the senator said that “…he did not eat for days and purposely dehydrated himself.” I guess that’s what you do when you want to spend 24 hours delivering a “moral” speech about how “immoral” the Trump policies are.

By the way, did anyone in the senator’s office remind him that he’d be doing this on April Fool’s Day? Maybe he can do another on April Fool’s Day 2026 and announce that he is thinking about running for President to make America like New Jersey again.

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Happy # 81 Tony Orlando

We say happy birthday to Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis who was born in New York on this day in 1944.     

We know him as Tony Orlando, one of the top performers of the 1970's.     

In the 1970's, Tony Orlando & Dawn had a lot of big hits on the radio:  "Knock Three Times" (1971); "Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" (1973); and "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)" (1975).     

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1948: The Louisiana Hayride radio program

In 1954, Elvis Presley made an appearance on The Louisiana Hayride, the radio program that went on the air on this day in 1948.   It introduced Elvis to millions listening all over the South.

The Hayride was about country but it did embrace the electric guitar, the instrument that would turn “hillbilly music” into rock and roll.

The Hayride shut down in 1960 but its legacy lives on.

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