I found out the reason it went Direct To Video. If a film is released to theatres and grosses less than $100,000,000 Wal-Mart will not promote the video release or give it major shelf space. The last few Disney films that were made with DVD/VHS in mind (second rate sequals to classic titles) did not do that much business and the folks at The House of Eisner wanted to make sure this film got a major push from Wal-Mart so it bypassed a theatrical release in case it didn't gross enough to please Wal-Mart, which will promote promising Direct-To-Video releases.
Cassette - "Dick Tracy in B Flat", a 1945 radio musical version of the comic strip with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Dinah Shore, Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, The Andrew Sisters, Frank Morgan, Cass Daly, Jerry Colona and Harry VonZell.
Stuart...BB 5 from Tuesday!! Holy Toledo, you need to catch up!!!
Well, you've read the notes, you know the P Problem, and now it is time for you to Post until the P Problem is solved.
Wouldn't that be a P/P problem?
Is anyone else as entirely happy as I am that today is FRIDAY???????
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Drew desperately needs to learn what it feels like to be nominated. He's the biggest wuss in the house and doesn't seem to have any clear-cut convictions.
I was wild about the score at the time. These days, I still find it fun and catchy. I haven't listened to the CD for a while but I think I'll pull it out this weekend.
Well, looks like my trip to the Hollywood Collector's show is cancelled...for me, anyhow! Doggone it!
I received an invitation in the mail to a wedding that I knew was coming up, but didn't know when...well it is the same weekend that I was planning to fly down to Burbank! Aaaargh! It is a very important wedding which I simply cannot miss...I am sure glad I hadn't bought my plane ticket yet!
And if I had known about this earlier I could have instead gone down to Las Vegas this weekend with some buddies (I had to decline the invitation because I was saving my money for Burbank!)
Jane,
My cousin = JMK's rabbi.
Your FedEx guy = MBarnum's brother.
What are some of the other connections you've made, here or elsewhere?
The fact that DR Jay and I are brothers doesn't count, right? ;)
My brother left a treat for Echo! See, he really is a cool brother!
DVD - Mickey, Donald & Goofy (not to mention Minnie, Daisy, Pluto, Clarabelle, et. al.) in THE THREE MUSKETEERS. Although I'm sure much of this is computer animated, it looks hand drawn and there are a few scenes which appear to be done on a multi-plane camera. The script is okay, but more jokes don't work (or are not funny) than do. The score is several warhorses of classical music with new lyrics. And there are 7½ minutes of credits following 1 hour of film! ... I found out the reason it went Direct To Video. If a film is released to theatres and grosses less than $100,000,000 Wal-Mart will not promote the video release or give it major shelf space. The last few Disney films that were made with DVD/VHS in mind (second rate sequals to classic titles) did not do that much business and the folks at The House of Eisner wanted to make sure this film got a major push from Wal-Mart so it bypassed a theatrical release in case it didn't gross enough to please Wal-Mart, which will promote promising Direct-To-Video releases.
Yikes. I hate Walmart. There's ample reason to hate Disney. You put the two together and what do you get: limited entertainment choices. Bad for the consumer.
Although, I have to admit, that I'd never heard of David Daniels before this and I really haven't heard much of Dawn Upshaw's operatic work. I do have her "I Wish It So" CD and it's wonderful!
If someone were waving a corn dog at me, I would leave immediately! I LOVE corn dogs.....
As only we would have it here at HHW, the place for cool brothers.
It's one of my favorites, too. Have you heard her equally splendid Rodgers & Hart and Vernon Duke CDs?
It's one of my favorites, too. Have you heard her equally splendid Rodgers & Hart and Vernon Duke CDs?
DerBrucer... The Wal-Mart story comes direct from some Disney employees as reported on the Jim Hill Disney website. Wal-Mart will sell videos of films that do less than $100,000,000 at the box office, but they will not give them the major promotion or shelf space they save for the blockbusters. At least this is what the article said...Our local WalMart did give Brother Bear major shelf space, as in a separate display at the front of the store. They even had a separate display for Treasure Planet when it was released, and that film was a bomb (as opposed to "da bomb"). If this doesn't count as major display, then I don't understand the phrase.
I can't figure out who is is going to have more fun this week, Marvin or Will.....
WARNING! WARNING! More Big Brother 5 talk!!!
I was also might happy to see Natalie leave! I wish it would have been Adria, but Natalie is my second most disliked player.
DR Stuart, I agree that Michael should win viewers choice for the phone call...I think it would bring his spirits up a bit. I like Michael and think he is a heck of a nice guy.
I was very happy to see Marvin had won the last viewers choice. I knew he loved Y&R, so I wanted him to win!
And I love Karen...don't know that she is playing too well, but then she gets along with everyone and that does make for good strategy (although I doubt that was her strategy! LOL!)
Nikomis is the strongest player, I think. Drew could be a good player but he has had bad luck in choosing alliances and is keeps ending up between a rock and a hard place...and I suspect he is not happy with how he himself has been playing so far.
For "Big Brother" fans: Ding! Dong! One of the (w)itches is gone! And now Natalie gets to spend a week ALONE in the sequester house with Will. Very amusing. I noted last night that he's selected the very place she and Adria can bunk down each night...an area of the patio that, as Will put it, is hard, cold and wet!
Marvin is my favorite player. Nakomis is second. I know Marvin isn't approachable for alliances (or he hasn't been), but he and Nakomis have been on the same track for some time. I'm speculating wildly about who he might put up for eviction. My thought is that Cowboy is one of them. Whether he opts to continue the twin exorcism and put up Adria, or whether he throws the long-overdue Drew into the eviction pool is not clear at this point. Drew desperately needs to learn what it feels like to be nominated. He's the biggest wuss in the house and doesn't seem to have any clear-cut convictions. Marvin truly doesn't like anyone in the house, but he despises Cowboy. I'm also not clear where he stands on Karen and Diane, although he's been pretty critical of both in the past. We won't "learn" (theoretically) until Tuesday night who he selected.
Miss Beverly Garland was so pert and perky as the mother of Kate Jackson on "The Scarecrow and Mrs. King."
The situation at chez Kimmel reminds me of
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I'm voting, surprise! surprise! for Adria to win the call. As much as I dislike the way she's played in the past couple of weeks, I think she deserves the call from her husband (or is he her boyfriend???).
Hollywood upstarts!).
And that led to Miss June Allyson and the Depends commercials. I suppose all that dancing....
I agree. I wasn't too fond of her on MY THREE SONS" but thought she was perfect, and looked better, on THE SCARECROW AND MRS. KING"
One of the few fun things on r.a.t.m. in the past few years was stunt casting threads. Miss June Allyson put in an appearance in a number of them:
June Allyson in THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE
June Allyson in THE WIZ
June Allyson in ON GOLDEN POND
June Allyson in GOLDEN RAINBOW
BIG RIVER with June Allyson
June Allyson in YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING
and inevitably, June Allyson in URINETOWN
The situation at chez Kimmel reminds me of
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Which DR can remember Miss Bette Davis' FIRST television commercial....which she did because she loved the product so much........
She was sitting on a boat swilling the stuff wearing dark glasses and looking all the world like Margaret Emery....
Ahh, so Monsieur François is among us. It's Friday afternoon, where have you been? ;)
I'm bettin' it wasn't Pepsi!
Re: American's Choice.
I like someone who is married or with kids to get it.
(....because, among other lovely dog things, unlike men, a dog always Stays).
If you pay attention to the 71/2 minutes of credits you will uncover ample evidence that the film is primarily hand-drawn: detailed credits for the classic hand animation chores for each character (49 folks assigned to primary characters, 19 for effects animation and 79 folks gainfully employed as Cleanup and Inbetweeners). CGI gets a passing reference with a mere 8 names.
The score is indeed several warhorses of classical music (just like "Fantasia") with new lyrics sung by the likes of BK's very own Tammy Tappan.
Your related Wal-Mart conspiracy theory is somewhat contradicted by facts. WAL-MART did a full-court press for "Brother Bear" and is already hyping "Home on the Range", neither one of which had grosses anywhere near $100M. I suspect the anti-Eisner crowd is looking to add Wal-Mart to their Enemies List.
If you watch the Preview to "Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas" you will see what computer animated Disney Folk will look like - and it is nothing like this film.
der Brucer
Oh, Jose, comparing Winchell's to Dunford is like comparing....well, there is no comparison. ;)
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My eldest sister is in Salt Lake City for her 40th HS reunion (boy, is she OLD!!! LOL) and just overnighted us two dozen Dunford chocolate cake donuts. These are without a doubt the most decadently delicious chocolate donuts in the world. If anyone can get here within the next two or three minutes, there might be one left for you. NOT!
RE: Dawn Upshaw- Such an amazing voice, and a wonderful person to boot!
-And, truth be told, I really wasn't that impressed with the Winchell's donuts. Ah, well... Can those donuts be shipped to L.A.? ;D
My experience of Wal-Mart is, admittedly, rather limited. I've seen some news stories, know they've sold guns, but most of what I know of Wal-Mart I learned from Barbara Ehrenreich's wonderful book, Nickled and Dimed.Rough translation, Noel has never BEEN INSIDE a WalMart.
It's because Disney has been ass-kissing WalMart with The Three Muskateers -- whatever the US spelling!!! -- release that WalMart returns the compliment to Disney with the way they handle the promotion of the "new" Disney dvd releases!This is based on what facts? Where is the reliable information, the resources to back up these comments?
It's a small business world after all! :D
This is based on what facts? Where is the reliable information, the resources to back up these comments?
I expected better from you, Francois.
SWW the inside of WalMart is okay but I have issues with their business practices-have from the beginning. Could that be it?Specifics, Jane, please provide specifics and sources.
Rough translation, Noel has never BEEN INSIDE a WalMart.
How this can bring his earlier comment that he "hates" WalMart is puzzling, regarding how can "hate" be based on anything other than personal experience. Unless, of course, he's been carefully taught, as Ehrenreich's book appears to have done.
Prejudice. It's not just for the radical right any more.
Dear reader writer Panni,
Me thinks BK is being pretty harsh on you lately!
"Hang in there".... we're behind you!
;)
Qui Bene Amat Bene Castigat... I guess!
No more wire thongs, EVER. Those youngsters and their nasty thongs. Someday they will look back and think, "How could I EVER have been so ridiculous as to wear such a thing"
Jane,DR Jane has not connected me to MusicGuy yet! And there is a connection.
My cousin = JMK's rabbi.
Your FedEx guy = MBarnum's brother.
What are some of the other connections you've made, here or elsewhere?
I never studied the backside of women before
Panni, thank you for the personal information. To our great disappointment we were a few minutes late arriving at the synagogue and they would not let us in even though it didn’t close for another 45 minutes, or something like that.
At least we enjoyed our walk around the outside of the very large building.
BK, just sent you an email you might be interested in...
Thank you!
oops (spoo....) message's not for me!
Sorry! :)
What was Bette Davis' favorite beverage in the evening I wonder?
They did not let you in because..... your belly button was showing!
That IS the one and only reason! :D
When I send you one, you'll be welcome :)
ONLY then???? :-\
MBarnum! ALF is MY favorite Alison Moyet cd! !
I just found her 2002 release, which I'm heading out over the weekend to buy!
If you want me to share it with you. . . ;)
Now you tell me! I guess the fact it was a very hot day was no excuse for dressing like that to go to temple. ;D
You're welcome anytime. As long as I am...
BTW – DR Jane certainly looks too young to be the mother of those two young men!
Absolutely, she's too young! Look, compare:
Well, DRs - Guess what I'm seeing again tonight? I e-mailed a producer friend suggesting that he and his wife see WHAT IF? I know it's his cup of tea - he's worked with Billy Barnes, he wrote for Danny Kaye, Judy Garland - so I knew he'd love it. He e-mailed back that I was very sweet to invite him and as his wife was out of town WE should go. Why not? What if I see WHAT IF? 4 times? ).
DR Jane has not connected me to MusicGuy yet! And there is a connection.
I am off to rehearsal for TEN LITTLE INDIANS, but I did want to share my good news.
Today I was asked to play Scrooge in the musical of the same name! See, good things do happen to bad people!
Is that Harvey Firestein on the left???
Panni, enjoy the show! I'd like to see it just once!
Congrats, TCB!
CONGRATULATIONS TCB!
GREAT NEWS!
Has he played your organ?Close but no prize!
Wonderful news TCB. Please be careful with Tiny Tim's crutch. (I don't want you tripping and hurting your hip.).
Tomovoz, very good advice but I can't helping laughing. ;DI achieved my goal.
A lot of us enjoy the analogy that this here site is like a party at BK's place. It's certainly fine for a party guest to say he doesn't like a certain chain store. To call that guest prejudiced, on the other hand...No, Noel, you said that you HATE WalMart. Hate is quite different from "doesn't like." Hate is a word of extremes. And as you profess to have not actually shopped at a WalMart, observed how they are giving discount prices to a general class of shoppers who otherwise could not afford the goods they sell, and yet HATE that store, I believe the word prejudiced is apt.