Saturday, January 24, 2015

Who the hell is Mortdecai (and why?)

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You know, folks, it's rare that I see a movie with the kind of reviews this one got (see excerpts from Rotten Tomatoes, below). Ap...

Oscar Levant: Rhapsody in Black

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Since my enthusiasm so often runs ahead of my knowledge, I'm writing this in advance of knowing anything about my subject. Or ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

The Gershwin cartoon: it's here! It's very clear!

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I was gobsmacked to find this. I went on YouTube and searched under "Gershwin cartoons", knowing such an absurd thing could n...

Go, men. . . go Munsingwear!

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These are some choice cuts from the Munsingwear cartoon-style ads I love so ...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Paco is ten weeks old!

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Up in smoke: what happened to George Gershwin?

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George #1: dredged out of rare archival footage, in turn dredged up by documentarians. Here we see the godlike, melancholy Gershwin...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Hot butter!

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Monday, January 19, 2015

Festival of Bad Animation, Part Zero: Worse than Bad

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More, more, we need to know MORE about Paddy the Pelican! Incredibly, there is a Wikipedia entry for this thing, so it must hav...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Festival of Bad Animation, Part 1: Don't Eat the Mushrooms in Oz

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What a strange labyrinth is YouTube. I often find stuff I haven't seen since I was preverbal. It strikes me very strangely now. P...

Festival of Bad Animation, Part 2: The Completely Bizarre Adventures of Hercules

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Do you-all remember those godawful Mighty Hercules cartoons ground out by Trans-Lux in the early 1960s? Believe me when I say that ...

Festival of Bad Animation, Part 3: Who the Hell is Paddy the Pelican?

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I don't know why this is, but I keep on dredging up stuff on YouTube, animated things that are just inexplicable. They are so ...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

This is why nothing happens to you

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EDNA'S case was really a pathetic one. Like every woman, her primary ambition was to marr...