Yup, you read it right. Marge Simpson, mom to Bart and Homer's "bitter- half" is gracing the cover of Playboy Magazine's November issue.
So, what did Homer say to Marge when he saw her on the cover of Hugh Hefner's mag?
"Marge, you're as beautiful as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda."
I guess the devil is in the blue hair, eh?
Yes, Donald Duck is really old. And boy, I am old.
When I was a kid, I used to watch him on black and white TV for hours. Aside from Bugs Bunny, the duck with his unintelligible gibberish and grouchy character is my favorite cartoon character.
He was your next door anti- hero; the quintessential loser but you've got to give it to him for he was always a fighter and you will not find the word "quit" in his limited vocabulary.
So, who cares if the grumpy old duck is 75 today?
He will always be the young, hot-tempered but unflappable duck to me.
Everybody in the house, say quack!
"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. "
Here’s a gem from Aleksandr Petrov. Here’s film that is both short and sweet; a very good way of blending artistry with technology. And no disrespect to Disney and company but I consider this masterpiece to be one of the most beautiful animations I have ever seen.
Yes, the Russian animator/director famous for being a proponent of Romantic Realism in his works made this short 20- minute animated film based on Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.
Mr. Petrov’s technique may look old school to some but it is not. It is in reality solid, unique and beautiful. Of course, it will help if one has read the book since it will be far easier to understand this short film that won the 1999 Academy Awards for Animated Short Film.
I will let Wikipedia do the detailed explanation regarding the painstaking work and process that the artist/director with the help of technology did to breathe life to Papa’s classic man versus fish tale--
...the first large-format animated film ever made. Technically impressive, the film is made entirely in pastel oil paintings on glass, a technique mastered by only a handful of animators in the world. By using his fingertips instead of a paintbrush on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels, each covered with slow-drying oil paints, he was able to add depth to his paintings. After photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on. It took Aleksandr Petrov over two years, from March 1997 through April 1999, to paint each of the 29,000+ frames. For the shooting of the frames a special adapted motion-control camera system was built, probably the most precise computerized animation stand ever made. On this an IMAX camera was mounted, and a video-assist camera was then attached to the IMAX camera.
Lastly, never mind if you don’t understand the dialogues in the film below since I can’t find an English version of the film in the vast expanse of the World Wide Web. But by just looking at the pictures, it surely evokes varied thoughts and emotions; they surely paint a thousand words.
Watch The Old Man and The Sea - Alexandr Petrov in Animation | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
‘ saw the Tony Award- winning play at the Walter Kerr on Broadway in ‘05 with Cherry Jones as Sister Aloysius and Brian F. O‘Byrne as Father Flynn. It was no doubt one of the best plays I’ve seen.
So, make no mistake, I will definitely watch the film adaptation; with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the cast as well as Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright John Patrick Shanley directing; can’t get any better than that.
I don't usually watch Saturday Night Live because most often than not they fail to tickle my funny bones. But last night's edition was the exception to the rule.
Here's Republican Vice- Presidential Candidate and Governor Sarah Palin with Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live.
Enjoy!
