Forty-one years ago at U.C.L.A., a student there named Steve Stoliar launched a drive to get Universal Studios to re-release the then-unavailable Marx Brothers movie, Animal Crackers. Today, the school newspaper recalls that campaign and explains what happened as a result of it.
I'm always intrigued how fate directs our lives. Steve started all this very shortly after I quit U.C.L.A. so I could spend all my time writing comic books and other things. Had I stuck around, I'm sure I would have joined his movement and we probably would have become good friends then instead of forty years later.