Something Old, Nothing New

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by Jaime J. Weinman (email me)

Saturday, November 18, 2006

1946 Article on Friz Freleng

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Probably the best special feature on the fourth Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a new documentary on Friz Freleng, which includes lots of ...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Placeholdin'

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While I try to come up with an animation-related post for the weekend, you can check out my post about How I Met Your Mother . I speculate -...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

In a Dicky and a Collar and a Tie

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I've been trying to get through the films in Fox's Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection, but while Fox has done a commendable job in p...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Odd But Endearing

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Here's a weird YouTube find: somebody put up a clip from an episode of Dinah Shore's talk show ("Dinah!") where Shore and ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

One-Season Wonders That Lasted More Than One Season

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Can you think of any long-running TV shows that, in your opinion, were only really good for one season? My pick is, and long has been, ...
Monday, November 13, 2006

A Lost Starlet Before the '60s

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I'm always making list of '60s actresses who should have become stars, but why limit myself to the '60s? A starlet of the '4...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Is "Tortilla Flaps" a Better Speedy Gonzales Cartoon Than "Here Today, Gone Tamale?"

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Don't forget that this Tuesday brings the release of the fourth Looney Tunes Golden Collection, which is very much worth getting despite...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

DIC!

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If Fox has really made a "multimillion dollar pact" to distribute DIC animated titles, that can mean only one thing: CARE BEARS. ...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Pointless James Bond Notes

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I had a chance to look at the new James Bond DVDs -- the special features are mostly duplicated from the earlier releases (though there is s...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Going Audio-Visual

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For some reason, one of my old posts that gets linked to the most after all these years is my post on The Stan Daniels Turn -- a joke that ...

Grudge Matches I'd Like to See: Buffy vs. The Count

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Version) meets The Count (Sesame Street). Since he is a vampire, and not hot, she takes it upon herself to slay...

"Despite the Easy Jack Webb Comparison, I Always Considered Jack Lord My Spiritual Forbear."

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Hawaii 5-0 coming to DVD ; season 1 comes out in February. The quote above is from Cornfed the Pig on Duckman (which, frankly, I wish Param...

The Keatons Revisited

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Yes, sorry, I am obsessed with the U.S. mid-term elections and suffused with nagging fears that vice will be rewarded (Tradesports says diff...
Monday, November 06, 2006

The Just-Us League of Supertoons

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I haven't done an animation-related post in a while, for which I apologize; meanwhile here's my take on "Justice League" a...

WB Strikes Again

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Wow, that was fast -- the two Busby Berkeley numbers found on YouTube have now been un-found because Warner Brothers pulled them off the net...
Saturday, November 04, 2006

More Busby Berkeley

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You know, when I was a younger movie-musical buff, I had kind of a snobbish attitude to Busby Berkeley. I thought of him as kind of a one-tr...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Cancelled Though Not Necessarily Brilliant

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Denis McGrath has a great post about the four crime shows on a "Brilliant But Cancelled" disc (sort of tying in with the series o...

More On Bass vs. Binder

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Michael Sporn has some good comments on my Bass vs. Binder post : Bass started designing titles earlier than Binder, and he made an art of...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Finally, Family Ties!

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What took them so long? This is another one of those shows where the first season wasn't as good as the others but we still have to buy ...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

Finding This Stuff Is What Makes Life Worth Living

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I know I shouldn't just post YouTube finds without having something to say about them, but I just found this and I can't think of an...
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