I actually frequently chant "Wanna be a member? Wanna be a member?" to Matilda, and she always takes the perfect beat, makes a scrunched-up Bimbo face, and says sternly, "NO!" I love her dearly for it, among many other things.
Of the old Fleischer Brothers cartoons, "Bimbo's Initiation" is usually my second favorite. "Snow White" is usually my absolute utter favorite -- the "St. James Infirmary" section is every mad, swinging, endlessly inventive and gloriously grim thing
Forbidden Zone
ever wanted to be.
But sometimes I switch it up and make "Bimbo's Initiation" my favorite, 'cause I'm capricious like that.
Are those available on something other than You Tube (which my computer apparently hates 90% of the time)?
I don't know about officially, but we have them on various VHS tapes that I could burn to DVD if you can't find them elsewhere.
Let me look around and see (I was hoping it had been a disc rather than a tape that you guys were watching). So much stuff has come out on DVD it's hard to keep up. Also, I seem to remember Video Watchdog discussing some Fleischer stuff coming out, but that may have just been Popeye.
I will definitely take you up on that offer, if I hit a dead end otherwise.
Finally saw Avatar. The effects were good. But I'm pretty meh on the whole thing.
That film clip is probably the gayest non-gay thing I've ever seen, and I say that with all love. And slack-jawed admiration.
I realized, seeing the commercial for The A-Team movie tonight, that I am totally going to see it, simply because Bradley Cooper is in it.
There are worse reasons to see a movie.
The other day I made CJ wastch an episode of the A-Team on tv so that when we do go see the movie, he will have a clue. He seemed to enjoy it.
Chicago Magazine Names Top 40 Movies Filmed In Chicago (PHOTOS)
High Fidelity
was #1.
It's a rich, textured movie that--like your favorite LP--only gets better with time. It defines Chicago as a city of doers, dreamers, and slackers--a real place for real lives.
