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Entertainment
The “Censored Eleven”
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons withheld from syndication because of racist depictions:
- Hittin’ the Trail to Hallelujah Land (1931, directed by Rudolph Ising)
- Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time (1936, directed by Friz Freleng)
- Clean Pastures (1937, directed by Freleng)
- Uncle Tom’s Bungalow (1937, directed by Tex Avery)
- Jungle Jitters (1938, directed by Freleng)
- The Isle of Pingo Pongo (1938, directed by Avery)
- All This and Rabbit Stew (1941, directed by Avery)
- Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943, directed by Robert Clampett)
- Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943, directed by Clampett)
- Angel Puss (1944, directed by Chuck Jones)
- Goldilocks and the Jivin’ Bears (1944, directed by Freleng)
None of these has been broadcast since 1968.
Stature in Hollywood
Tall actors:
- Raymond Burr, 6 feet 5 inches
- Tim Robbins, 6 feet 5 inches
- Vince Vaughn, 6 feet 5 inches
- John Cleese, 6 feet 4-3/4 inches
- Jeff Goldblum, 6 feet 4-1/2 inches
- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, 6 feet 4-1/2 inches
- Steven Seagal, 6 feet 4-1/2 inches
- John Wayne, 6 feet 4-1/2 inches
- David Hasselhoff, 6 feet 4 inches
- Tom Selleck, 6 feet 4 inches
- Donald Sutherland, 6 feet 4 inches
- Will Ferrell, 6 feet 3-1/2 inches
- James Stewart, 6 feet 3-1/2 inches
- Gary Cooper, 6 feet 3 inches
- Brendan Fraser, 6 feet 3 inches
- Samuel L. Jackson, 6 feet 3 inches
- Gregory Peck, 6 feet 3 inches
Footloose
“When the lusty and fyne man should holde a young damosel, or a woman by the hand, and keeping his measures he shal remoue himselfe, whirle about, & shake his legges alofte (which the daunsers call crosse capring) for pleasure, doth not she in the meane while make a good threede, playing at the Moris on her behalfe: but I pray you: what can ther by there of God, of his worde, or of honestye in such folishnes: I holde my tounge, that is, I speake nothing of their wordes, amorous deuises, or deuises of loue, wanton communications or speeches or markes only knowen to the Ladye, or Gentlewoman. It is true, that a man will say to me, that he must reioyce and be mery, which thing also I graunt, but yet not with a worldly, dissolute, and leuse ioy.”
— A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin It Is Shewed, That They Are As It Were Accessories and Dependants (or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome, 1581
Finnegan’s Ache
Who says Americans are uncultured? Every year on the last Sunday in April, Dedham, Mass., sponsors the James Joyce Ramble, a 10K road race in which each mile is dedicated to a different work by Joyce.
Professional actors dress up in period costume and read from the books as the athletes run by, making this the only theatrical performance where the performers stand still and the audience moves.
Heigh-Ho
Rejected dwarf names considered for Disney’s Snow White (1937):
- Awful
- Hoppy
- Weepy
- Dirty
- Cranky
- Hungry
- Sneezy-Wheezy
- Lazy
- Snoopy
- Goopy
- Wistful
- Soulful
- Gabby-Blabby
- Crabby
- Flabby
- Helpful
- Tearful
- Deafy
- Thrifty
- Shifty
- Nifty
Only about 3 people in 100 can name the seven dwarfs that were finally used.
Looking for the Next Best Thing
When singer Warren Zevon (“Werewolves of London”) was diagnosed with cancer in 2002, he said he just hoped to live long enough to see the next James Bond movie.
He did.
The film was called Die Another Day.
Truth in Advertising
On the original Star Trek, many sets include pipes and tubes marked “GNDN”.
That’s an in-joke among the set designers — it stands for “Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing.”
Unquote
“There’s just some people you don’t hit with a pie and that’s all there is to it.” — Buster Keaton
Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin never won a Grammy.