Jeff Wong sent his nominations for the Bill Finger Award and asked… I understand that a lot of people who suggest names have odd definitions of what it means to be "unrewarded" or "unrecognized" but I wonder what your definitions are. Hmm. Good question. Well, "unrecognized" would have a lot to do with doing tonweights […]
I said recently in a Tweet, "Betcha the budget for movie with fake Stooges is 10 times the budget for all the movies ever made with the real guys." Film historian Randy Skretvedt responded by noting… The budget for a Stooges two-reeler in 1934 was around $18,000, and it got smaller and smaller as the […]
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Today's potatoes are from Brad Reed Farms in Idaho Falls, ID. First time I've ever gotten the same potato source twice. # Today, I was approached by what I thought was a homeless guy who wanted $ for food. Turned out to be Newt trying to get on a ballot. # In the sequel to […]
What can you do about cell phone spam? Answer: Not enough. […]
Here's another one of those Capitol Records of Disney material. This is Lady and the Tramp and it says "With members of the original cast." This is so. Lady is voiced by Barbara Luddy and Tramp is Larry Roberts, plus Bill Thompson spoke for Jock, Bull and Dachsie. All of these folks were indeed in […]
Many moons ago, I wrote a couple of TV shows for a small production company that also produced the occasional movie, either for TV or theaters. The producer — we'll call him Mr. Producer — had a fellow on staff to act as his "reader." We'll call him Mr. Reader. This is another anecdote about […]
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Betcha the budget for movie with fake Stooges is 10 times the budget for all the movies ever made with the real guys. # The Stooges movie is a big hit. And another hit. And another hit. And a poke in the eyes. And a vase broken over the head. And… # What's this about […]
Ten minutes of really odd things people have said in movies. This seems to include every line ever spoken on film by Arnold Schwarzenegger… […]
Gavin Polone reveals what gets read in Hollywood…and he oughta know. Mr. Polone is a top producer with recent creds as an agent and manager. (He represented Conan O'Brien when Conan got and lost The Tonight Show.) He is absolutely right that folks in the TV and movie business who have the power to do […]
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A reader of this site who signs him- or herself "d abston" writes… I'm definitely one of the people who is "just reacting to the idea of a white guy killing a black guy." More specifically, I'm one of the people "just reacting" to the idea that an armed adult shot and killed an unarmed […]
On Easter, I recounted here a memory of going to the May Co., the L.A. department store, and seeing a robot Fred Flintstone. A reader of this site named Tony Redman found this image on the photostream of an animation historian who calls himself slappy427 (he has lots of neat Hanna-Barbera stuff there). Anyway, slappy427 […]
This is one of those "Don't ask what it's about, just click and watch" videos. So don't ask what it's about, just click and watch… […]