Passages

[mfunk9786]

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.

[George Drooly]

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.

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to derail this thread, but... what?

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.

[mfunk9786]

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to derail this thread, but...

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.

[dustybooks]

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.

[Mr Sausage]

I think the comma and the lack of dashes in the sentence threw some people:

...trying to elevate it from an adaptation of Groening's more mundane comic strip, sort of homespun sensibility

"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.

[mfunk9786]

No, I get it. Just never been of the opinion that leaving out an easy context word warranted a 2 paragraph takedown

[Mr Sausage]

No, I get it. Just never been of the opinion that leaving out an easily context word warranted a 2 paragraph takedown

No worries. Wasn't including you among the "some people."

[antnield]

Richard Glatzer.

[dx23]

Windell Middlebrooks

[dx23]

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.

Guess you haven't watch any TV then.

[bamwc2]

Terry Pratchett

[colinr0380]

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.

[Kirkinson]

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).

[flyonthewall2983]

Daevid Allen

[FrauBlucher]

Gene Patton better known as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine. Here he is.

[L.A.]

Mike Porcaro

[Ashirg]

Ib Melchior

[dwk]

Jack Haley

[zedz]

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.

[Roger Ryan]

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.

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.

[Perkins Cobb]

Walter Grauman.

[calculus entrophy]

Andy Fraser.....it will be All Right Now.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... ed-62.html

[bearcuborg]

Chuck Bednerik: The dude who did this to Frank Gifford...

[willoneill]

Alberta Watson

[colinr0380]

Alberta Watson

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.

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.