‘Rock Candy Baby’ by Dick Contino
November 30th, 2009
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Categories: Cinema, Music, Video Accordion, Daddy-O, Dick Contino, MST3K, Music, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Rock Candy Baby
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Gamera’s Theme Song
November 28th, 2009
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Obama Stumbles & Stammers
November 17th, 2009
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Barry sure isn’t quick on his feet
QUESTION: And to President Obama, you are a proponent of a nuclear-free world, and you’ve stated, first of all, you would like to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki while in office. Do you have this desire? And what is your understanding of the historical meaning of the A-bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Do you think that it was the right decision?
Enjoy the answer!
Categories: Music, News, Politics, Television, Video Barack Obama, Gaffe, Gaffes, Japan, Mistake, Mistakes, Nuclear Weapons, Speech Impediment, Stammer, Stammers, Teleprompter
Ric Flair Wooo Lottery Ticket
November 12th, 2009
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To Be The Man, You Have To Beat The Man
Our friends at the North Carolina Education Lottery have created a great new $5 Lottery Card…
The Mothra Song
November 11th, 2009
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Peanuts Rule!
It appears that our friends in the Land of the Rising Sun decided to make a brief musical video of one of my wildest fantasies. I am forever grateful! Oh mama!
Mama Guitar by Don Cornell
October 29th, 2009
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Godzilla – Blue Oyster Cult
October 24th, 2009
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Oh no, there goes Tokyo!
Blue Oyster Cult – Godzilla
Lyrics:
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down
Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
Oh no, they say hes got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Godzilla ga ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Oh no, they say hes got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men
Godzilla!
Swingin’ The Alphabet
October 23rd, 2009
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Curly’s a dope!
Moe, Larry and Curly are gas station attendants who blow up an automobile with three foreign professors going to Mildew’s Girl College. The Stooges change into the professors’ clothes and impersonate them at the school. In class, the Stooges teach the girls how to “Swing the Alphabet,” and follow up by teaching Mrs. Catsby how to play basketball, Stooge-style!
Swingin’ The Alphabet is from Violent is the Word for Curly, and proves that the Three Stooges can teach beautiful women anything.
Special Dedication To Roman Polanski
September 30th, 2009
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Categories: Music, News, Video Bobby Fuller, Cinema, Dedication, I Fought The Law, Music, Rape, Rape-Rape, Roman Polanski, Statutory Rape, The View, Whoopi Goldberg
Talk to the Animals by Vanda King
September 28th, 2009
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Think of the amazing repartee!
Probably the only memorable thing about the 1967 film Dr Dolittle is this song, Talk To The Animals. In the film, it’s performed by Rex Harrison with a slow placed, almost conversational delivery. I prefer the faster paced renditions, like those performed by Sammy Davis Jr. and in this video, Vanda King.
The song is a personal favorite of mine and has been since childhood. I find the lyrics quite clever and the melody infectious. The only problem I have with the song is the same problem I have with the film – both are way too long. Dr Dolittle clocks in at almost three hours when the intermission is included – a brutal exercise, punctuated by the fact that the film is primarily for children. Expecting kids to sit there for 3 hours is just too much, I think.
For years, I have felt that the narrative should have been tweaked and Dr Dolittle should have been presented as two 90 minute films, released a year or so apart. That’s much easier for children to digest, and a lot easier for the adults in the audience, too.
As it stands, the film was enormously expensive and, sadly, a commercial failure, and caused financial mayhem with 20th Century Fox, which continued to feel the pain until almost a decade later when they released Star Wars in May, 1977. Dr Dolittle also marks the beginning of the end of major leading roles for Rex Harrison. 20th Century Fox also launched an all-out marketing blitz for the film, further compromising the bottom line.
In the end, Dr Dolittle has earned a warm spot in the hearts of many fans over the decades. Perhaps its most enduring legacy is that it marked the end of this type of film: a musical children’s adventure that’s nonetheless good for fans of all ages. These days, that niche is dominated by animated films featuring the voices of established stars, a genre that’s grown tedious and tiresome. I’d like to see this type of film make a comeback – I think if it were done well, it could be huge.
So, what courageous filmmaker has the guts to try it?
Categories: Music, Television, Video Cinema, Dr Doolittle, Music, Rex Harrison, Talk to the Animals, Vanda King
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