Mal ,'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Loved Pippi Longstocking and Benji. Also, That Darn Cat.
I vaguely remember Escape to Witch Mountain and The Phantom Tollbooth, but I don't think I read them. I recently listened to a reading of Rikki Tikki Tavi on the Classic Tales podcast and can see how that would be traumatizing--it's quite vicious.
Oh, I loved That Darn Cat. And Grizzly Adams, too.
Oh I loved Rikki Tikki Tavi! Orson Welles!
I've read mac the old version of Pinnochio and newer Rikki-Tiki-Tavi. In both I had to do some verbal editing as I was reading it, but mostly I left stuff in. I don't think he understood a lot of Pinnochio, but R-T-T I think just seemed like life in the country to him.
Did you ever see Rikki Tikki Tavi? Talk about traumatizing children's cartoons.
With the Orson Welles narration? I still hear "The Great Grey Greasy Gambesi River" in his voice.
After watching it, and Disney's The Jungle Book, the kids named the giant snake plants foisted upon us by the MiL, Ka, Nag, and Nagaina.
One of the subjects I studied for my degree was colonialism and boy did my in-depth studies of Kipling give me a whole new level of understanding of Riki Tiki Tavi (which had been a childhood favorite). Like a lot of things, it's not really a children's tale.
I loved the book and the movie of Rikki Tikki Tavi, and I still do, although in a different way.
Just got back from Toy Story 3. They broke me, but it was also good and funny, and they really didn't miss a trick. Did anyone else get that Sid was the garbageman? The one drumming on the bins and mailbox?
I did not catch that, Raq!
Heh. Matilda's summary of The Last Unicorn got forwarded to Beagle himself, who said:
Wow! I think that child should have a regular book-reviewing gig at the N.Y. Times. I'd pick her over Michiko Kakutani like a shot, every time.
Heh. Matilda's summary of The Last Unicorn got forwarded to Beagle himself, who said:
Wow! I think that child should have a regular book-reviewing gig at the N.Y. Times. I'd pick her over Michiko Kakutani like a shot, every time.
Awesome!