Stephen Saban

HESHE’S HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME

Our talented friend Stephen Saban at The WOW Report must have shared our youthful passion for comic books because he found this magnificent issue of a real comic called Crimebuster from 1943. We owe our future in journalism to the many hours we spent as a child lost in these illustrated stories. We don’t remember seeing this comic (Little Lulu was our favorite) but coincidentally we did go out trick or treating one Halloween as a half man half woman with a magic marker line dividing the face in half and make up and jewelry on one side, along with a boy and a girl shoe. The body didn’t matter because Chicago was so cold you had to bundle up in a heavy coat on Halloween. Fun times.

TALENTED COCKATOO UPSTAGES WILLOW SMITH

Most of the time we like birds better than children, so we were enchanted by this cockatoo’s perfect performance to Willow Smith’s song “Whip My Hair.” The bird actually makes the dubious song entertaining. Our savvy colleague at The WOW Report, Stephen Saban, discovered this sweet and talented creature.

REBBIE JACKSON’S “CENTIPEDE” WILL MAKE YOU SHUDDER

We wondered what happened to Rebbie Jackson’s singing career. The oldest Jackson sibling married young and at 34 recorded “Centipede,” which was her first video in 1984. Our relentless colleague, Stephen Saban at World of Wonder dug up this early sample of her work, which actually had moderate success. After three more albums, Rebbie retired from music in 1998. She has a Jackson voice, but this particular song is unnerving, to put it mildly.

MICHAEL JACKSON DIDN’T LIVE UP TO EBONY’S PREDICTION


Our much admired correspondent from The WOW Report, Stephen Saban, discovered this amusing Ebony magazine article. We ADORE looking back at predictions of the future (why did no one predict cell phones?) In 1985, Ebony hired a Chicago artist to illustrate how celebrities would look in the year 2000. It’s funny how Michael Jackson did NOT live up to this portrait, which more closely resembles Billy Dee Williams in his prime.