Passages
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It's an adaptation of the shorts from the Tracey Ullman Show, which were comic strip shorts in length and structure that were animated like cartoons.
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I'm sorry, I'm not trying to derail this thread, but... what?mfunk9786 wrote:It's an adaptation of the shorts from the Tracey Ullman Show, which were comic strip shorts in length and structure that were animated like cartoons.
Again, not an adaptation of his strips or the animated shorts from the Ullman show. Adaptation generally implies moving from one medium or form to another, no? You might rather say an extension or expansion of the animated shorts. Also, I've never in my life heard the words "comic strip shorts" used together and I don't really understand what you mean.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, but these words mean things, especially to the people who work in these varied mediums. Perhaps this discussion might be better placed in the Simpsons/TV thread.
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Too late! You know exactly what I meant. And I meant comic strip styled, my phrasing there could have been a bit better. But you're being a little ridiculous.George Drooly wrote:mfunk9786 wrote:I'm sorry, I'm not trying to derail this thread, but...
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I get you, mfunk -- It's analogous to a short being adapted into a feature film, like Sling Blade or Bottle Rocket. The Ullman shorts were almost solely the responsibility of Groening (who scripted all of them), David Silverman and Wes Archer; while they are very funny, the series is an entirely different beast, and by most accounts more a product of Sam Simon and James L. Brooks' sensibilities than Groening's.
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I think the comma and the lack of dashes in the sentence threw some people:
"Comic strip" is meant to be an adjective. It's modifying "sensibility". The sentence really ought to read "Groening's more mundane comic-strip, sort-of-homespun sensibility". It's not saying the Simpsons is an adaptation of a comic strip....trying to elevate it from an adaptation of Groening's more mundane comic strip, sort of homespun sensibility
- mfunk9786
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No, I get it. Just never been of the opinion that leaving out an easy context word warranted a 2 paragraph takedown
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No worries. Wasn't including you among the "some people."mfunk9786 wrote:No, I get it. Just never been of the opinion that leaving out an easily context word warranted a 2 paragraph takedown
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- dx23
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Guess you haven't watch any TV then.George Drooly wrote: However, if Simon was in any way responsible for "Lisa's Substitute" then he has my thanks for the only good television episode of the last 25 years.
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I've not read his books (I'm more of a sci-fi than fantasy nerd! Though I guess he brought the same irreverent eye to fantasy that Douglas Adams did to sci-fi), but I do remember enjoying those two 1997 animated mini-series adaptations of Pratchett's books, Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, both of which had Christopher Lee as the voice of Death.
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Alan Greenberg, who made the meditative Jamaican doc Land of Look Behind and wrote an interesting book on the making of Heart of Glass (Every Night the Trees Disappear).
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- zedz
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Another music one: Michael Brown of The Left Banke. Creator of at least four perfect pop singles ('Walk Away Renee', 'Pretty Ballerina', 'She May Call You Up Tonight', 'Desiree'), which is four more than most artists can claim.
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I'm pleased that Brown was able to reunite with The Left Banke on-stage a few times a couple of years back. Not a particularly prolific writer-producer (distancing himself from The Left Banke after the first album), but, as you say, those singles were fantastic. For me, "Pretty Ballerina" is one of the gems of 1966 which is probably the best year in that decade for pop.zedz wrote:Another music one: Michael Brown of The Left Banke. Creator of at least four perfect pop singles ('Walk Away Renee', 'Pretty Ballerina', 'She May Call You Up Tonight', 'Desiree'), which is four more than most artists can claim.
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Chuck Bednerik: The dude who did this to Frank Gifford...
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Very sad news. She's stunningly beautiful as the female lead in Michael Mann's The Keep. And she plays the mother with a broken leg in David O. Russell's incest drama Spanking The Monkey.willoneill wrote:Alberta Watson
She's also in White Of The Eye, The Lookout, Away From Her and The Sweet Hereafter and Hedwig and the Angry Inch amongst many other films.