My God, how amazing is Claudette Colbert. What is who is her modern equivalent, in talent, beauty and verbal skill? Her presence is amazing. The only anecdote I remember hearing about her is that even her husband called her Miss Colbert, such was the reverence that she naturally engendered from every person she met.
I always get it happened One night confused with a night to remember. Very different stories. I kind of prefer a night to remember. It's got to be a well-told story if you go in knowing what the ending is going to be and you watch it anyway. No knock against it happened One night, but you got to give the other film a little credit for that.
Bugs Bunny should be front and center of our national discussion today. He is a universally beloved character, who's essential character feature is that he is an iconoclast. He also presented as male usually, but it's hard to think of a bugs Bunny outing that did not include bugs appearing as a female. Bugs Bunny was flexible and spectral, and we all love the character. We dare to be that character, to be so honest, and then to be so courageous in dealing with the onslaught of physical violence that follows being so honest.
Bugs was da bomb. The one where he & Daffy tried to convince Elmer it was duck/wabbit season put me over the top. One family Thanksgiving, re-enacted Daffy’s meltdown for the fam, sidling across the kitchen shouting, “Go ahead, shoot me…I’m a fiddler crab!” Only Mom got it. Years later, we were in dntn B’more, watching a guy struggle to nudge a Corvette into a tight parallel spot. Re-enacting a Woody Allen scene we’d watched together, she directed him to ‘c’mon back’ until he tapped the car behind him, then said, “that’ll do it”. Only I got it. Senses of humor are apparently genetic.
Hate to be a pedant, but this is filled with inaccuracies.
It's "A Wild Hare," not "The Wild Hare." It was NOT the first Bugs Bunny cartoon--that would be "Porky's Hare Hunt" in 1938, co-directed by Ben "Bugs" Hardaway--and it was a Merrie Melody, not a Looney Tune (not Toon). And while the carrot-chomping did come from Gable, his persona was mainly Groucho, even often repeating his line, "Of course you know, this means war." And mention should be made of director Tex Avery, who revamped the character into the wabbit we know and love today. Actual fun fact: "Doc" was something Avery called everybody--it was common down in Texas back then.
Yes, but all cartoon characters go through a development process before they figure out what works; indeed, the very next Bugs cartoon was different again, because it was already in production when AWH was released. Go back and look at the very first appearances of most classic characters and you'll find that they bear little resemblance to their final version--heck, Betty Boop started out as a dog!
As for PORKY'S HARE HUNT--don't forget who gave Bugs his name.
Never apologize for being right. And never feel forced to admit to being a pedant. Be proud of being technically correct. Which as any fan of Futurama knows, is the best kind of correct.
Ta, Robyn. I had no idea Bugs didn't appear until 1940. Dear fiancé Meccalopolis and I just finished second breakfast, or brunch. Buckwheat peach pancakes with maple syrup, air fried home fries with herbs from our kitchen garden, and strong coffee. Yum! Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot (I am re-scheduled for Monday at 7 PM at the CVS close to home; let's see if the third time's the charm), avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed family and friends like lovely Treg and Holly's hero pilot friend Tony among over seven million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel, especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe.
As children the mom would drop us off at the local theater that had an hours long program of cartoons and silly movies like Ma and Pa Kettle. I would imagine that a lot of parents were getting their errands done or hitting a bar. It was the early 60’s after all.
It’s amazing how they simply left all us kids there unsupervised. We were like 3,4 and 6! Everyone was very well behaved.
I babysat at the age of 10! And I had a lot of families that not only trusted me with their children but to also cook for them. Now a days, no one would think that that was a good idea but we were very independent and responsible kids.
Don't care at all. I would just like to not have to DVR a lot of stuff just to find the odd sports that appeal to me. I'm only about halfway through the opening ceremony as of this moment, but I do like the boats (and the rainy weather) instead of the parade of the athletes (except for the flag carriers not getting face time on the TV). Tell me why we have to keep going back to team USA over and over. I don't really feel a need to see Hoda nor listen to Kelley Clarkson.
I stopped watching long ago. American television only wants to focus on the American athletes and wants to focus on "the story" rather than the competition.
I am also An Old, but I liked the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony. I wish that NBC had run the entry of the athletes on the boats as a pic-in-pic view because that should have been the main draw. I thought that the ride along the River Seine was a brilliant touch despite the rain. It was all very French.
My husband thinks that they’ve gone too Hollywood. He didn’t say that exactly but he said he wasn’t interested in them given how they don’t seem like amateur athletes anymore but professional.
I thought that the ceremony was very polished and professional but I was disappointed that the entry of the athletes took back seat to the performances. The athletes on the boats were very young and enthusiastic (what we could see) but to a degree to took away from the usual celebration.
I am lucky enough (old enough) to have seen many of the Warner Bros. classics on their first run in the late 50's, early 60's. I had a friend with two older brothers who probably got bribed to take us along for Saturday matinees.
It was absolute mayhem when some of those classics played for the first time. Everyone knew we were seeing something extraordinary.
In the 'Who gives a fuck about you' news: Andrew Tate raged that the Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony was “satanic” and slammed the West “worship the devil.”
For an indignant Christopath petulantly professing his sanctity and piety this prick certainly seems certain he recognizes "satanic" when he sees it. What I'd like to know is how?
Just how many "satanic" ceremonies of the strictly sinister sort has he actually attended and/or taken part in?
One of my fondest childhood memories is from watching Saturday morning cartoons. My dad would drink coffee at the kitchen table, which provided a bird's eye view of the TV. Every now and again, I'd hear him chuckle, but when I looked back he'd pretend he wasn't watching.
Upfist for Fred "Tex" Avery!
Couple of thoughts:
My God, how amazing is Claudette Colbert. What is who is her modern equivalent, in talent, beauty and verbal skill? Her presence is amazing. The only anecdote I remember hearing about her is that even her husband called her Miss Colbert, such was the reverence that she naturally engendered from every person she met.
I always get it happened One night confused with a night to remember. Very different stories. I kind of prefer a night to remember. It's got to be a well-told story if you go in knowing what the ending is going to be and you watch it anyway. No knock against it happened One night, but you got to give the other film a little credit for that.
Bugs Bunny should be front and center of our national discussion today. He is a universally beloved character, who's essential character feature is that he is an iconoclast. He also presented as male usually, but it's hard to think of a bugs Bunny outing that did not include bugs appearing as a female. Bugs Bunny was flexible and spectral, and we all love the character. We dare to be that character, to be so honest, and then to be so courageous in dealing with the onslaught of physical violence that follows being so honest.
Just a few thoughts.
Bugs was da bomb. The one where he & Daffy tried to convince Elmer it was duck/wabbit season put me over the top. One family Thanksgiving, re-enacted Daffy’s meltdown for the fam, sidling across the kitchen shouting, “Go ahead, shoot me…I’m a fiddler crab!” Only Mom got it. Years later, we were in dntn B’more, watching a guy struggle to nudge a Corvette into a tight parallel spot. Re-enacting a Woody Allen scene we’d watched together, she directed him to ‘c’mon back’ until he tapped the car behind him, then said, “that’ll do it”. Only I got it. Senses of humor are apparently genetic.
Our kids' senses of humor are truly twisted, I can't imagine where they got that from ...
I love Bugs. If I ever lose it, they can just park me in front of a screen with old Bugs Bunny and Marx Brothers movies and I’ll be fine.
Hate to be a pedant, but this is filled with inaccuracies.
It's "A Wild Hare," not "The Wild Hare." It was NOT the first Bugs Bunny cartoon--that would be "Porky's Hare Hunt" in 1938, co-directed by Ben "Bugs" Hardaway--and it was a Merrie Melody, not a Looney Tune (not Toon). And while the carrot-chomping did come from Gable, his persona was mainly Groucho, even often repeating his line, "Of course you know, this means war." And mention should be made of director Tex Avery, who revamped the character into the wabbit we know and love today. Actual fun fact: "Doc" was something Avery called everybody--it was common down in Texas back then.
The rabbit in Porky’s Hare Hunt is more a prototype than an actual appearance of Bugs Bunny.
Yes, but all cartoon characters go through a development process before they figure out what works; indeed, the very next Bugs cartoon was different again, because it was already in production when AWH was released. Go back and look at the very first appearances of most classic characters and you'll find that they bear little resemblance to their final version--heck, Betty Boop started out as a dog!
As for PORKY'S HARE HUNT--don't forget who gave Bugs his name.
Never apologize for being right. And never feel forced to admit to being a pedant. Be proud of being technically correct. Which as any fan of Futurama knows, is the best kind of correct.
Ta, Robyn. I had no idea Bugs didn't appear until 1940. Dear fiancé Meccalopolis and I just finished second breakfast, or brunch. Buckwheat peach pancakes with maple syrup, air fried home fries with herbs from our kitchen garden, and strong coffee. Yum! Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot (I am re-scheduled for Monday at 7 PM at the CVS close to home; let's see if the third time's the charm), avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed family and friends like lovely Treg and Holly's hero pilot friend Tony among over seven million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel, especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe.
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
Mr. Demme had to leave his chamber music workshop early because he has Covid.
We are getting a new wave of it, and this is very timely.
Thanks!
May he heal quickly and completely.
Thanks so much.
FCC cuts rates for inmate phone calls, capping decades-long effort
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/20/fcc-cut-call-rates-prison/
> Under the new rules, the cost of a 15-minute call to or from large jails will drop from as much as $11.35 to $0.90
http://archive.is/krwEg
Those greedy fucking capitalists sure do love a captive market.
As children the mom would drop us off at the local theater that had an hours long program of cartoons and silly movies like Ma and Pa Kettle. I would imagine that a lot of parents were getting their errands done or hitting a bar. It was the early 60’s after all.
It’s amazing how they simply left all us kids there unsupervised. We were like 3,4 and 6! Everyone was very well behaved.
So were we!
I think my parents would have a nookie-fest when they dropped us off!
(My dad was always in a good mood when he picked us up!)
LOL! I’m sure that that was certainly going on.
Elder Sister and I would go to lunch and the movies on our own when she was ten and I was four-and-a-half.
I babysat at the age of 10! And I had a lot of families that not only trusted me with their children but to also cook for them. Now a days, no one would think that that was a good idea but we were very independent and responsible kids.
I babysat Younger Sister when she was a neonate and I was five. I could also cook by then.
Those were the days!
https://substack.com/profile/35452475-jt-mailman/note/c-63505240?r=l3vaz
Happy Caturday!
Since I am an old, (GET OFF MY LAWN!!), I want to ask you kids something.
(I'm obviously not the target market.)
Is the format of the Olympics with all the celebrities helpful to you?
Do you think it will help their ratings to go up?
Don't care at all. I would just like to not have to DVR a lot of stuff just to find the odd sports that appeal to me. I'm only about halfway through the opening ceremony as of this moment, but I do like the boats (and the rainy weather) instead of the parade of the athletes (except for the flag carriers not getting face time on the TV). Tell me why we have to keep going back to team USA over and over. I don't really feel a need to see Hoda nor listen to Kelley Clarkson.
I stopped watching long ago. American television only wants to focus on the American athletes and wants to focus on "the story" rather than the competition.
So true.
Now, I just use it as background noise, when I'm on my laptop, and I don't care what's on.
Only the super-human feats of strength in men's gymnastics get my attention.
(I've lived in England and Canada also, and it was bearable there.)
I am also An Old, but I liked the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony. I wish that NBC had run the entry of the athletes on the boats as a pic-in-pic view because that should have been the main draw. I thought that the ride along the River Seine was a brilliant touch despite the rain. It was all very French.
Agreed.
But what I really like is when things are in chronological order, and I realize that time zones can make this difficult.
But showing just a bit of an event and then jumping to a sob story, or saving the results for prime time drives me nuts.
I think pic-in-pic would be great to show events as well.
They've got the hippity hoppity and the breakdancing now!
My husband thinks that they’ve gone too Hollywood. He didn’t say that exactly but he said he wasn’t interested in them given how they don’t seem like amateur athletes anymore but professional.
1996 OLYMPICS "MACARENA" It made the whole event explodewith good will!
I thought that the ceremony was very polished and professional but I was disappointed that the entry of the athletes took back seat to the performances. The athletes on the boats were very young and enthusiastic (what we could see) but to a degree to took away from the usual celebration.
I think that this was what my husband meant.
Thanks for the present.
I've heard the expression "When pigs fly". This is a new one on me
https://x.com/jimstep260853/status/1817092556909433042
I'm not that surprised at pigs (boars?) climbing for fruit.
I am lucky enough (old enough) to have seen many of the Warner Bros. classics on their first run in the late 50's, early 60's. I had a friend with two older brothers who probably got bribed to take us along for Saturday matinees.
It was absolute mayhem when some of those classics played for the first time. Everyone knew we were seeing something extraordinary.
That's how I felt as a young teenager in England, and watching Monty Python movies in the theater.
It was confusing, and sometimes gross, but I knew I was seeing something extraordinary.
My niece was in her 40s when she finally saw the Holy Grail when it was in the theaters afew years back.
She was stunned to find that "I fart in your general direction" was not made up by me and her mother.
Fun for word nerds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517gTjBLVy4
[assumes grateful Vulcan demeanor]
Absolutely fascinating, Captain.
In the 'Who gives a fuck about you' news: Andrew Tate raged that the Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony was “satanic” and slammed the West “worship the devil.”
Sure. Now I have to say I loved it all whether I did or not, just on principle.
Why does anyone ask this guy his opinion? Does he write a culture column for Vogue or GQ?
You'd think Andrew would be in favor of the Olympics, what with the Dutch volleyball kiddie raper and all.
For an indignant Christopath petulantly professing his sanctity and piety this prick certainly seems certain he recognizes "satanic" when he sees it. What I'd like to know is how?
Just how many "satanic" ceremonies of the strictly sinister sort has he actually attended and/or taken part in?
Aw, he's such a pious rapist.
Incel-in-a-cell has thoughts.
I am asking for a recommendation of a good Opening Ceremony Satanic Highlights Clip Show.
Start with the fashion show, everything to get Tate all hot sweaty and crying out for Jesus.
Bet he was blubbing at Celine.
Thank you, Andrew. Now go play on the nearest limited access multilane highway.
One of my fondest childhood memories is from watching Saturday morning cartoons. My dad would drink coffee at the kitchen table, which provided a bird's eye view of the TV. Every now and again, I'd hear him chuckle, but when I looked back he'd pretend he wasn't watching.
I have to thank JD Vance. My new reply tp people who are repeating shit in order to gaslight now starts with "Keep fuckin' that couch"
The chickens are relieved by this.
That’s why they were crossing roads....