I LOVED these books so much as a kid, and my children also love them now. Gorgeous illustrations and just really fun. I believe they were slightly updated in recent years to add more women into jobs other than housewife/mum!
I particularly love the headline "Regular People Needs Rescuing Too" and the change from "Beautiful Screaming Lady" to "cat in danger!"
Surely the original was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the unusually attractive quality of people being rescued in movies, given how many easter eggs and puns he put in. So they sand down all the edges that might offend anyone. I actually think most of the changes are improvements, despite the patronizing tone of the article (GP, not OP) about how more enlightened we are today than back when Scarry made the books, but this is how we get from Susan Kare fun icons to every icon startup/project having blank people with literally no facial features.
Article is just a write up of a Flickr album, so linking to Flickr is better.