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\\Cars\\ impresses theater owners and reviewers
…Pixar’s biggest hit \\Finding Nemo\\. Another executive described “the film’s race-car-themed story line and folksy soundtrack, featuring songs by Sheryl Crow and Brad Paisley, as the perfect antidote to (gay… |
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Disney alumni pass away
…to animation fans as villain Jim Dale’s sidekick in 1977’s Pete’s Dragon and as the voice of Robespierre in Chuck Jones’ 1962 feature Gay Purr-ee, while {{link http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=barnard+hughes&btnG=Search+News Barnard Hughes}}… |
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South, Park make "controversial" list
…cut at #9, as the article comments, “One country not a fan of the film: Iraq, which banned it because then-dictator Saddam Hussein was portrayed as, well, the gay lover… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…and he was also a great composer – “You’ll be given the music for Glitter and Be Gay, the big aria from Candide. Lukas Foss will call me and tell… |
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South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season
…a man he couldn’t handle his homosexual desires, now finds herself attracted to women in D-Yikes (“Children, I’m gay”. “Again?”), told in the styled of 300, and in Night Of… |
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The Venture Bros.: 3rd Season
…just doesn’t make for a pretty picture. And even if I was gay, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t enjoy seeing Rusty’s unit swaying in the breeze. Next season, let’s keep… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…the UPA Studio (he had already written the feature Gay Purr-ee for them in 1962). At MGM, he created the highly successful TV specials How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)… |
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Dinosaurs: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…Father uses Robbie’s vegetarian leanings as a metaphor for the generation gap, though it is easy to read the episode as an allegory for gay or drug issues. Charlene’s Tale… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…Dalmatians, crossed not with Lady And The Tramp as is often stated, but by way of Chuck Jones’ earlier UPA feature Gay Purr-ee, in which Judy Garland’s pampered feline is… |
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Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation
…everything (the features Gay Purr-ee and The Phantom Tollbooth are conspicuous absences), as a taster for the cartoons to follow on DVD, this a good starting point, and a wonderful… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…his own ideas, winning an Oscar for his classic The Dot And The Line, as well as several collaborations with the UPA Studio (he had already written the feature Gay… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…slight reworking of One Hundred And One Dalmatians, crossed not with Lady And The Tramp as is often stated, but by way of Chuck Jones’ earlier UPA feature Gay Purr-ee,… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…feature from UPA, Gay Purr-ee, some years earlier, but it only received limited marketing. However, it was on television – Filmation’s biggest appreciator – that Journey Back To Oz found… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…Jerry cartoons under his independent Tower 12 Productions outfit. One of the most prolific producers of the time, Jones wrote the screenplay for the UPA feature Gay Purr-ee, directed the… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…and Ricardo Montalban, both in 1974, and a silly parody, Zorro: The Gay Blade, in 1981. Since then, animation has been Zorro’s medium of choice, including shows from Filmation and… |
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Animated genre types are Drawn Together for their movie debut
…card mini-monster; Wooldoor Sockbat, a wacky Saturday morning whatchamacallit; and Xandir, a strong young gay video game warrior. Check out The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! trailers and clips here… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…that lend the film a lethargic quality that’s quite melancholy and representative of non-Disney feature animation at the time (also noticeable in the Flintstone movie and UPA’s Gay Purr-ee). However,… |
