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hokey smokes Bullwinkle! I wouldn't have figured that hinge to represent angel wings in a gazillion years! I figured those screws HAD to have something to do with it.

I enjoyed the second song snippet there, Sudo. Brought me back to the first time I heard it. A friend had converting a room in his basement into a 'head' experience, with aluminum foil covering the walls and ceiling, some black light posters and a strobe light.

It was also one of the first times I got 'turned on', and sat like a zombie while that song played and the strobe light turned my brain to mush.

Yeah, that was healthy for a 15 year old kid. Gotta admit I get sentimental about those days though.

oh noooo-I missed Donner's birthday!!

Happy Birthday anyway-I'll do better next year!

at least he's finally doing some honest work.

It finally has dawned on me that those are pics of Sudo and his family. Boy, do I feel stupid.

I don't know the college, but I sure know that song. It WAS used all the time as the 'college' theme. Maybe it was the crashing cymbals that kept driving the answer out of my head. Reminded me of the recording of the Star Spangled Banner we had to listen to every day in high school. I dreaded those overwhelming cymbals every morning.

Happy to answer your questions, Steve, tho it's not exactly on topic with this board.

My main role on Kim Possible, was layout artist, background designer, tho I also did storyboard and character design in a pinch.

Most studio animation is indeed a team effort, with perhaps too much specialization.A typical crew for a show like Kim Possible would consist of a director, character, background and 'prop' designer, several storyboard artists, and 2 painters-one to paint backgrounds, and the other to paint characters and props (cars,moving objects).

Most of the work done in the states is considered 'pre production'. We design the show down to the last detail and storyboard it. The whole package gets sent overseas to japan, Korea, or anywhere where they can pay low wages and exploit people to animate it.

They would love to do the whole thing over there if they could, but that has never worked. Fortunately, the creative process still needs to be done here at home.

One of the earliest steps after the script is approved is the voice actors record it. There are mouth charts for all the characters that are used when it's finally animated and they are animated according to the mouth chart. A notable exception in animation history was the old Popeye cartoons from the 30's , where the process was reversed and the voice actors recorded to the finished cartoon. That's why you had those great Popeye cartoons with the characters ab libbing and muttering under there breath. They played off the finished cartoon.

In a nutshell-we receive a script after it's approved, and design the visuals first. In the case of Kim Possible, that would include new characters, villains etc, and new locations,villain lairs, african jungles, etc. That all goes to the storyboard artist who works off of the script and designs. The whole mess is approved by the director, and it somehow all comes together.

Hope that answers your questions. Gotta get back to the mountains of Peru here.

I thought this movie was a done deal and we all know it now.

Great pics. I still don't know what the movie is, but it reminded me of 'My Dog Skip', which I like alot.

I'm pretty much stumped by this one tho.

darn-I was almost going to say the 'Ghost and Mrs Muir'. I think I was subconsciously thrown by memories of that awful tv show they did, with Hope Lange. Well, maybe it wasn't 'awful', but I never sat through an entire episode without turning channels due to boredom.

But I should yhave known that Gene Tierney looks nothing like Anna.

I am definately slipping lately.

I'm just guessing, but is that Anna and the King of Siam?

I mean the pic Kathy posted, not the dog movie. yuk

I'm also guessing that Sudo's clip is from Best in Show. Don't know the actor or the dog.

well, when I passed through 2 years ago, I noted that Adolph's was closed in New Knoxville, and the Happy Humpty was gone in St Marys.

That pic was a dead giveaway, but the karaoke version of the song was fun.

I'm realizing I really stink at movie quotes.

For some reason a line taken out of context, with no visual or music, gives me fits.

Just a comment to Sudo- the first song posted a bit back there, plays a key part in 'Sullivan's Travels'-the movie you were mystified that I was moved by, since it's ostensibly a comedy.

I return you now to movie quotes that I have no clue to.

I'd love to see the Tigers and Orioles go far this year. They have had great teams in the past, and baseball is better when they're competitive.

The Orioles are looking good-tho the pitching may not hold up. Sweet line up tho.

I've heard about the psychology of Sox fan having to deal with the realities of post series depression. That was some quest, and now there's nothing to do but do it again. Losing will not seem quite as forgivable now that the Sox are just another good team.

It's one reason I got off the Yankee train. To die hard Yankee fan, they have to win EVERY year . That's insane and takes all the joy out of the game.

I still love baseball and love going to games. It's hard to explain but I find not getting emotionally involved with a team preferable.

Sharon's clue hits the bullseye.

The cartoon version was NOT very good, IMO.

I do have a soft spot for the old Beatle cartoons tho. Not that they were any better.

The response to the all star team topic and others is staggering. is it football season, or do we need to return to Manny Ramirez ?

Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Anastasia....

It seems there's an effort to raise this room above the level of the ' Bowery Boys'. I'm afraid if it's above a nine year old comprehension level, I'm at a loss.

I did see Helen Hayes live once though.I grew up in Stratford , Connecticut, home of the most authentic Shakespeare Theater across the pond. Katherine hepburn used to act there when i was way too young, and she lived in a small house on the water near the theater.

Many other prominant actors such as Bert Lahr, played there also, but I'm recalling a school field trip to see Helen Hayes. It was a tradition for all the schools from miles around to do an annual trip there, but this year Helen Hayes did a one woman presentation of scenes from several Shakespeare plays.

I looked around at the half full theater full of youngsters, and wondered what she thought of playing to an audience of kids.

I knew she was great because my parents told me so. I didn't understand a word she said. I still can't follow Shakespeare plays.

I loved the theater though. Unfortunately it has fallen on disrepair due to lack of funding, and now sits there, still an impressive sight, until you get close and see the rotted wood, and broken stairways.

ok sudo-I'll shut up. I got caught up in the memory of the hysteria over the Lennon comment, and realized nothing has changed.

The beach movies bridged the gap between the 50's and 60's. They certainly had a 50's sensibility, but a 60's look with the bikinis, and frenetic pacing.

The 'plot' of 'Bikini Beach' featured a rock singer called the 'potato bug', who was Frankie Avalon in a Beatle wig and awful english accent.

The beach movie franchise was pretty limp by '66, and had no place in the 'hippie, drug induced 60's we all know and love.

well, of course Shatner overacts-he wouldn't be Shatner if he didn't

I do think he turned n some remarkable performances tho-as well as some laughingly awful ones. When I have time, I'll opine on specific episodes.

Besides, he just made the understated Mr Spock that much more appealing, especially to you ladies who dreamed of bringing out the suppressed emotions in him.

While I thought the butcher cover was tasteless, they were still dolls. I felt the babies being killed in Viet Nam much more tasteless, as this was around the time of the famous photo of the viet girl crying after being napalmed.

I also 'got it' that Lennon wasn't saying he was better than Jesus Christ. He spoke candidly about the effect of their popularity and frankly he was right in that every kid my age was much more involved with the beatles than with going to church. It was a dumb thing for him to say, but just like today, the right wing zealots went ballistic and turned a sound bite into a cause.One can only imagine the party Limbaugh, Hannity, Fox News, and Tom DeLay would have with that.

Kathy, you just hinted at a dozen topics that are near and dear to me. I hardly know where to begin, so I'll just respond to a couple statements.

It actually took a while for Kirk to become a 'space ho'. The first year or so of Star trek, he was more married to the 'ship', which was eventually hardly the case. It's no accident that the best Trek episodes are from the first and some of the second season. 3rd season Star Trek is a joke.

I'd welcome any discussion on any of those other shows you mentioned, but will keep my yap shut for now.

I 've found the 'beach movies' to be guilty pleasures. There was an energy and an appeal to those Frankie and Annette movies, that sucked me in. American International was a low budget studio, that produced big entertainment.

The Beatles were not comfortable with the 'butcher' cover. I'm not sure who's idea it was, but I've read in a few places that they reluctantly went along with it, and did not 'get into' the concept. I think it shows on their faces, or maybe I'm reading into it too much.

I saw that Bogie movie while lying in a hospital bed many years ago. Thanks for the memories.

The McHale's navy joke reminds me that I don't think McHale was even in the air force movie. Ernest Borgnine sat it out and Tim Conway starred, who I've never been that crazy about.

It also starred Joe Flynn tho, who's right up there with Ed Platt as great TV characters.

that's 1 or 2 pictures, and 'died' in '69-I gotta start spell checking before posting.

Yeah-that's him-Stanley Clements.

Leo might have dies in '69, but the Bowery Boys series ended in the 50's, and he left after 10 or 2 pictures, after his father died.

He wrote a really bizarre autobiography in the mid 60's that has just recently been re-released-tho only a thousand or so were printed the first time. It's more like the ramblings of a broken man than a biography, and is a fascinating , read that tells little factually about him, but lots about his odd perspective on his career.

I'd guess if one could find a Sergeant pepper's with his face on it it would be valuable indeed.

I would agree that it's 'Angels with Dirty Faces'.

Which brings up the topic of the Dead End Kids. They really were 'street' kids when they first appeared on stage. Who knew that they'd still be around 20 years later.

The 'dead end kids', became the 'east side' kids, churning out B pictures in the mid 40's, finally becoming the 'Bowery Boys'-tho Leo Gorcay and Huntz Hall were hardly 'boys' by then.

In it's dead end days, gabriel dell, and Bobby jordan were the leads, with gorcey playing the 'tough' kid, and Hall the dumb kid.

Most of the group would weave in and out of the films over the years, but Gorcey and Hall became the mainstays. Even Leo Gorcey didn't make it to the end tho. His drinking finally did him in, and the last few Bowery Boys, featured Huntz hall with a straight man who I can't recall at the moment.

For a time tho, Leo Gorcey ruled the franchise. His father was a regular, playing the owner of Louie's sweet Shop where they hung out, and died not long before leo left. leo was devastated by his father's death which hastened his own leaving. Leo's brother David played a member of the gang for years, but was mostly background scenery, with little to say or do.

And beautiful Dodger Stadium is still turning into an eyesore with the barrage of ads, video strip screen, and incessant head banging music. It just costs more to park for the privilege now. And Dodger Dogs cost 4 bucks now. For that , it would be nice to get one that's hot now and then.

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