Forget the velvet-painting visuals of “300,” today’s best DVD release is another one from Warner Home Video, “The Popeye Collection 1933-1938,” which I write about in today’s Post. As it happens, I once briefly met Mae Questel, the legendary voice of Olive Oyl (as well as Betty Boop, Little Audrey, and even Popeye himself when Jack Mercer served in World War II). In the mid-1980s, I was wrapping up an interview with Danny DeVito when in came Mae — along with her husband Jack Shelby, who worked as an artist in the Post’s art department when I was a copy boy back in the late ’60s. Mae was there to audition for the part of DeVito’s mother in “Throw Momma From the Train.” The role went to somebody else, but Mae did play Woody Allen’s mother — who memorably floats above Manhattan — in the Woodman’s segment of “New York Stories.”

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