Editing Leopold Bloom (section)

==Popular culture==
[[File:Portrait of Zero Mostel, as Leopold Bloom in "Ulysses" LCCN2004663386.tif|thumb|[[Zero Mostel]] in costume as Bloom for the play ''[[Ulysses in Nighttown]]'' (1958)]]
Joyce told [[Sylvia Beach]] that [[Holbrook Jackson]] resembled Bloom.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3gBAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Holbrook%20Jackson%22%20leopold%20bloom&pg=PA539|title=Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction|last=Rintoul|first=M. C.|date=2014-03-05|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136119408}}</ref>

Writer-director [[Mel Brooks]] used the name "Leo Bloom" for the mousy accountant protagonist in his film/musical ''[[The Producers (1968 film)|The Producers]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/ |title=The Producers |date=10 November 1968 |publisher=IMDb}}</ref> Leo is a nervous accountant, prone to [[panic attack]]s, who keeps a [[security blanket]] to calm himself. Nevertheless, it is Leo who has the idea of how to make money from a failed play. In the 2001 stage musical and its 2005 film adaptation, after realizing his inner potential, Leo loudly asks "When's it gonna be Bloom's Day?" Hidden in the background of the office of Max Bialystock is a calendar marked for 16 June, which is [[Bloomsday]].<ref>{{cite magazine |author-link1=Robert Simonson|first=Robert |last=Simonson |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/when-will-it-be-bloomsday-june-16-at-symphony-space-com-106518 |date=16 June 2002 |title='When Will It Be Bloomsday?' June 16 at Symphony Space |magazine=Playbill }}</ref>

Former [[Pink Floyd]] bandmate [[Roger Waters]] references Leopold Bloom in his song "[[Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Vol. 1|Flickering Flame]]" as sitting with [[Molly Malone]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerwaters.org/tour/flickeringflamelyrics.html |title=The Flickering Flame Lyrics |publisher=Roger Waters Web Ring |access-date=14 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222211700/http://www.rogerwaters.org/tour/flickeringflamelyrics.html |archive-date=22 February 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Jeffrey Meyers suggested in "Orwell's Apocalypse: ''[[Coming Up for Air]], Modern Fiction Studies''" that [[George Orwell]]'s character George Bowling was modelled on Leopold Bloom.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hunter|first=Jefferson|date=1980|title=Orwell, Wells, and "Coming up for Air"|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/437247|journal=Modern Philology|volume=78|issue=1|pages=38–47|doi=10.1086/391004|jstor=437247|s2cid=162037316|issn=0026-8232}}</ref>

[[Grace Slick]]'s song "Rejoyce", from the [[Jefferson Airplane]] album ''[[After Bathing at Baxter's]]'', concerns the novel ''Ulysses''; Bloom is mentioned in the song.<ref>{{Cite web|title="A Man of Genius Makes No Mistakes": A Joycean Playlist Just in Time for Bloomsday 2015|url=https://floodmagazine.com/16805/a-man-of-genius-makes-no-mistakes-a-joycean-playlist-just-in-time-for-bloomsday-2015/|access-date=2020-11-07|website=FLOOD}}</ref>