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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…Jones, to carry the banner, with an often overlooked series of animated cartoons that usually get a swift dismissal. Created by the legendary team of Hanna-Barbera in the golden age… |
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Veteran Animator Ken Southworth dies
Animation Magazine reports that Ken Southworth, a veteran animator who worked for Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Walter Lantz, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Clokey Prods. and Filmation, has died after suffering several… |
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The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 1
Hanna-Barbera (1978-1979), Warner Archive (October 9, 2012), 1 disc, 99 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $14.95 Storyboard: Fred and Barney run into trouble with two classic… |
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Don't forget – it's Oscar Night!
At 6:00pm Central Time, on both ABC SD and HDTV, Barbara Walters will be doing her yearly inteview show and one of actors will be the big green guy himself:… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season
…and social commentary about bullying make this one a keeper, plus this is one of the few times we get to see Barbara Gordon outside of her Batgirl suit, here… |
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Animated coverage of the 78th Annual Academy Awards
…Linder (Grand Prix), Barbara Bel Geddes (I Remember Mama), Moustapha Akkad (Halloween), Chris Penn (Reservoir Dogs), John Mills (Ryan’s Daughter), Robert “Buzz” Knudson (Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Simone Simon (Cat… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season
…defeat a newly-awakened Mister Freeze. Instead of tying this story to the present day, though, we get a glimpse at a nearer future, where Robin is now Nightwing, and Barbara… |
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Oscar noms for 2018 movies announced
…Vice – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers Achievement in production design Black Panther – Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart The Favourite –… |
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Barks auction update: New world record set
…$3,000);an inscribed black and white photograph of Cary Grant (sold for: $1,680); a Frank Sinatra geometric pattern shirt worn on his wedding day to Barbara Marx in 1976 (brought: $1,020);… |
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Connery is Sir Billi the Vet
…Barbara Rafferty, Alex Norton, Gail Porter and Scottish comedian Ford Kiernan. Patrick Doyle is composing the score for Sir Billi the Vet. The film focuses on “Sir Billi (Connery) and… |
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Justice League Unlimited: Season Two
…Barbara Gordon from the Birds Of Prey comic, too, but they make up for it by throwing in a few more female Leaguers (and The Question) in this story of… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…of the cast (including Michael Sheen as the Rabbit, Barbara Windsor as a now female Dormouse) as only he can, bringing a spot of Edward Scissorhands to his mentally disturbed… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…of the entire world. Other notable deaths included comic book legend Neal Adams, Jules Bass of Rankin/Bass fame, Irene Cara, Barbara Walters, Gilbert Gottfried, Harry Potter star Robbie Coltrane, Leslie… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…a couple of successful bubblegum pop hits had them invited to pen a song for then-Studio popstrel Annette Funicello (think Disney’s Hannah Montana of the 1950s). Tall Paul was another… |
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Elmer Bernstein dies at 82
…the Preservation of Film Music, the USA, Woodstock, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach and Flanders International Film festivals and the Foundation for a Creative America. In 1991, he worked with Martin… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…Davis, Robert Simonds and Donald De Line. Additionally, Robert wrote the screenplay for the independent film A Fare To Remember which premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Additionally, his… |
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The Lego Batman Movie
…of the no-nonsense Barbara Gordon. Ralph Fiennes is fine as Alfred but didn’t bring anything new to the part. (And why didn’t he also do the voice of Voldemort!) Zach… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…Ezra Miller providing trivia and jokes about the character alongside interviews with filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti and screenwriter Christina Hodson. Days before FanDome went live, it had been revealed… |
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Ghost In the Shell: Innocence Breaks B.O. Records
…International Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or, will expand in 21 additional theaters this Friday and debut in more cities including Cleveland, OH; Indianapolis, IN; Portland, OR; and Santa Barbara, CA…. |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…Your Way In The Rain. Garfunkel did two songs, and Barbara Dickson did two. There were four songs, as far as I can remember, which I wish I could find…I’ll… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…his career as a filmmaker, filled with interview footage of Pal, his creative associates, and many actors who worked with him, like Tony Randall, Rod Taylor, Barbara Eden, Alan Young,… |
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Lucille Bliss, Smurfs and Cinderella voice actor, passes away
…her voice to a number of Hannah Barbara shows over the years, and could also be heard in animated films such as The Secret of NIMH and Robots. For her… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…presenting his wife with a hatbox, from which the adorable pup Lady (actress Barbara Luddy) pops up, and Jim’s wife Darling (singer Peggy Lee) is smitten. Lady soon has the… |
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D23 Expo 2011: Day 2 – Frankenweenie flies Planes with Muppets
…now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…Tree Productions. Fare premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and was picked up by the TV network Lifetime. Reece’s pieces Reece’s next project was his first rewrite assignment… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…came to see it. Every star that was in the film: Charlton Heston, Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Barbara Eden, Ray Bradbury, Gene Roddenberry, Bob Wise, Janet Lee, Ann Robinson, and… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…Santa Barbara, Sunkist Stars At Palm Springs and Cinema Circus. Disc Four – All Star Shorts/Big Band Specials! (1937-1938): Hollywood Party (color), Sunday Night At The Trocadero, Billy Rose’s Casa… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…hatbox, from which the adorable pup Lady (actress Barbara Luddy) pops up, and Jim’s wife Darling (singer Peggy Lee) is smitten. Lady soon has the run of the house, making… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…change her name to Anne Shirley and become a minor Hollywood sensation in movies such as Anne Of Green Gables (which inspired her name change), Stella Dallas opposite Barbara Stanwyck,… |
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Introducing The Batman's Batgirl
…into the show. As Police Commissioner Gordon’s daughter, Barbara is a teenage Olympic gymnastics hopeful who takes on crime fighting with a cape and cowl after her father silences her… |