Box-office draw

With Hollywood in its season of self-congratulation between the Globes and the Oscars, what better time for cartoonists to pay homage to classics, remade classics and re-remade classics? Like movie industry moguls, we freely redirect, rewrite and recast. Louise’s ’66 T-Bird was frozen in mid-leap as the credits rolled, but U.S. automakers’ bottom line may bottom out at the canyon floor. (Don’t worry, the suits will parachute to safety.) And Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, learning to lust after the bomb, sits in for Slim Pickens as the fanatically patriotic T.J. “King” Kong in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire. Speaking of Kong, the super-sized gorilla-of-my-dreams deserves an editorial cartooning “Eddy” for most-widely-spoofed character in a 70-year series. Scaling that minaret is some trick ... is there an award for best stunt-Dubya?