Newsies

In 1899 two newspaper giants were fighting for control of the New York readership, and tried to squeeze their distributors for an extra advantage. Those distributors were self-employed child laborers, who organized themselves and halted the entire distribution system until their demands were met. This drama, a nearly forgotten footnote in US labor history, was dramatized in a commercial flop of a film, and re-dramatized in a successful Broadway musical. Can a success set a precedent if it's forgotten? Does an adaptation have a duty to be accurate; and what if the facts are lost? How can an unpopular work become more sucessful after being changed for the worse?

Links!

• Newsies (1992)
• Newsies the Musical
• Artemisia Gentileschi, Renaissance Painter, by listener Ciaran
• SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
• Warcraft on Alcohollywood
• Mouse Guard by Six Feats Under

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