Hot breaking news.
This just in from intrepid correspondent Rich Custard!
Disney
to Release WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT on Blu-ray 3/12.
For the First Time on Blu-rayTM, Own this Once-in-a-Generation Academy Award Winning Contemporary Classic 25 TH Anniversary Edition with Astonishing Special Effects and New Digital Restoration!
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT Available on Blu-ray Combo Pack March 12, 2013
Synopsis:
A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit’s only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. Four time Academy Award® Winner (1988) for Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects Editing and Special Achievement in Animation Direction.
Cast:
Bob Hoskins (Hook, Brazil) as Eddie Valiant, Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future trilogy) as Judge Doom, Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter is Dead) as Dolores, Charles Fleischer (Back to the Future Part II, A Nightmare on Elm Street) as Roger Rabbit, Benny the Cab, Greasy & Psycho voice
Director:
Robert Zemeckis (Flight, Back to the Future trilogy)
Writers:
Novel “Who Censored Roger Rabbit”- Gary K. Wolf (Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, Trail Mix Up)
Screenplay – Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman (Shrek the Third, How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
Exec. Producers: Steven Spielberg (Lincoln, Jurassic Park) and Kathleen Kennedy (Lincoln, War
Horse)
Assoc. Producers: Don Hahn (Frankenweenie, Lion King) and Steve Starkey (Flight, Real Steel)
Producers: Frank Marshall (The Bourne Legacy, War Horse) and Robert Watts (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Raiders of the Lost Arc)
Release Date: March 12, 2013 (Direct Pre-book:1/15; Distributor Pre-book: 1/29) Suggested Retail Price: $26.50 U.S. / Canada (Blu-ray Combo Pack with DVD in both amarays available
in US only)
Bonus Features:
The Roger Rabbit Shorts Tummy Trouble, Roller-Coaster Rabbit & Trail Mix-Up (Digitally Restored)
Who Made Roger Rabbit?, Theatrical Trailer, Deleted Scene: “Pig’s Head”, On Set! Benny The Cab, Behind The Ears: The True Story, Before & After Split- Screen, Toon Stand-Ins, Feature Audio Commentary, Toontown Confidential Feature Trivia Subs, “The Valiant Files” Interactive Set-Top Gallery
Ratings: PG Feature
Run Time: 104 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: Dolby Digital Surround Sound
Languages: English, French Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Friday, December 21, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Rich Custard Dishes
Walter Windchill |
Good evening to all my loyal listeners from North to South, East to West, up to down, and all points in between. This is Walter Windchill broadcasting live from Radio Station WOOPS in Toontown.
The mystery of the moment gets even murkier. As one of my reporters reportedly reported, box
office bwana Gary Cooper and potentate producer Barney Sands were spotted
bungalowing together at Columbia Studios.
Tart-tongued tell-tale Rich Custard |
I’ve got an update on that hush-hush get-together from my
personal, private, and confidential source, tart-tongued tell-tale, Rich
Custard.
According to Custard, this scoop’s both sweet and sour. Coop’s up for a starring role in the new Barney Sands opus
Hi, Toon! It’s being filmed entirely in Toontown. Unfortunately, there’s a villainous viper
very, very high up the malevolent meter who doesn’t want this movie made. This shoe
fly has threatened to boot Cooper to kingdom come if Coops sets foot in looney
land.
According to Custard, second rate window peeper and third rate muscle
Eddie Valiant is on the case, protecting Kramer’s asset. Can Valiant do it? Who knows.
The proof will be in the pudding.
Thanks, Custard, for serving us up this spicy soufflé.
Keep listening, folks. This
story’s still hot and cooking.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Rita Hayworth, Father of Relativity
Good evening to all my loyal listeners from North to South,
East to West, up to down, and all points in between. This is Walter Windchill
broadcasting live from Radio Station WOOPS in Toontown.
Here’s a link to the three new anthologies of Brooke McEldowney's cartoon strip9 Chickweed Lane
featuring some of the most interesting denizens of our fair city Toontown.
Noted Toontown author Gary K. Wolf wrote the forward for the one entitled Rita
Hayworth, Father of Relativity. Give it a look. It’s very hotsy-totsy stuff.
http://pibpress.blogspot.com/
Here’s a link to the three new anthologies of Brooke McEldowney's cartoon strip
http://pibpress.blogspot.com/
Friday, December 14, 2012
What the Duese?
Good evening to all my loyal listeners from North to South,
East to West, up to down, and all points in between. This is Walter Windchill
broadcasting live from Radio Station WOOPS in Toontown.
Here’s a juicy tidbit a couple of little birdies told me.
Toontown’s flying fun flock, Woody, Heckle, Jeckle, Tweetie,
and Donald, were winging their way South yesterday on their way to sample some
of that potent Mexican bird seed they like so much when they photoed a doozy of
a Duese parked outside Barney Sands's bungalow on the Columbia Studios lot. Unless I miss my guess, and I rarely do,
that’s a custom built 1935 Duesenberg SSJ.
What’s that I see when I study the bird brains' pic through a magnifying glass? Do
I make out the name COOP written in gold on the door? Indeed I do!
Only one COOP I know with the luxurious taste and legal tender to drive an auto of that quality out of aBeverly Hills showroom.
That would be none other than current box office kingpin Gary Cooper. I’ve been hearing
rumors that the cultured Cooper is going to star against type in a
Barney Sands-produced screwball comedy called Hi, Toon!. It’s going to be shot entirely in Toontown. I’ve
also heard that his co-star is going to be none other than that bugsy bunny
Roger Rabbit.
Stay Tooned, folks. This scoop on Coop's coupe is shaping up as a prime pip-a-rootie.
Only one COOP I know with the luxurious taste and legal tender to drive an auto of that quality out of a
Stay Tooned, folks. This scoop on Coop's coupe is shaping up as a prime pip-a-rootie.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Walter Windchill Interviews Gary K. Wolf
(CUE POMPOUS SYMPHONIC
ORCHESTRA MUSIC. BRING UP SOUNDS OF TYPEWRITER, TELEGRAPH KEY, TRAIN
WHEELS, AIRPLANE ENGINE, SHIP’S HORN. FADE OUT TO:)
WALTER WINDCHILL:
Good evening to all my
loyal listeners from North to South, East to West, up to down, and
points in between. This is columnist Walter Windchill, the coldest
man in Toontown, broadcasting live on location from Lindy’s iHop in
Toontown. I have as my guest tonight noted American humorist and
humorous American Gary K. Wolf who’s here to talk about his new
book. For those of you who know him, he needs no introduction. For
those of you who don’t know him, he does. Welcome, Gary, to
Toontown Through A Keyhole.
GARY K. WOLF:
Great to be here,
Walter. Thanks for having me.
(SOUND OF WAITRESS
DEPOSITING TWO DISHES ON TABLE.)
WALTER WINDCHILL:
I took the liberty of
ordering us slices of Lindy’s signature limburger cheesecake.
(SOUND OF WINDCHILL NEARLY INHALING HIS. SOUND OF WOLF GAGGING.)
Let’s get right to dishing some dirt, because that’s what I do.
How about we start with a discussion of everybody’s favorite
actress. Since you are, after all, the man, the Svengali, who took
Jessica Rabbit, a bumbling, buxom, bucktoothed, brown-haired,
blaring-voiced farm girl and turned her into Hollywood’s hottest
tamale.
(SOUND OF WOLF’S
CHEST PUFFING UP PROUDLY)
GARY K. WOLF:
I’ve gotten thank you
letters from half the schoolboys in the country. Most of those
letters are too sticky to read.
WALTER WINDCHILL:
I’ve heard it bandied
around the soda fountain at Schwabs that you’re a little bit sweet
on that ravishing redhead. And that she’s inclined to reciprocate
GARY K. WOLF:
(CHUCKLING, GREATLY
AMUSED.) Me, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper,
Baby Herman. The handsomest, most virile men in Hollywood. We’ve
all been romantically linked to her at one time or another. There
have even been rumors about her and you, Walter.
WALTER WINDCHILL
No!
GARY K. WOLF
Yes. Of course it’s
all hokum. Publicity hogwash. An underhanded, lurid way to sell
magazines, newspapers, and movie tickets. Jessica is as pure as
Ivory Snow. She’s a one rabbit woman, and that one rabbit is Roger.
She’s told me so herself, on many occasions. I have no reason to
doubt her.
(SOUND OF TELEPHONE
BRRRRRINGING)
WALTER WINDCHILL
Hello. (WHISPERING) I
told you never to call me here. (PAUSE) Ooooh. (PAUSE) You know I do!
(PAUSE) Believe me, if I could, I would. (PAUSE) Yes, yes, yes. As
soon as I can, I will. (PAUSE) Ditto here. (PAUSE) I can’t say
that. I’m live on the air. (PAUSE) All right. Just for you.
(BARELY AUDIBLE.) Water wuv, wuv, wuvs his widdle Jessie-wessie.
(HANGS UP)
WALTER WINDCHILL
Sorry about that, Gary.
One of my confidential sources calling in with a tip. I understand
you’ve got a hot new science fiction novel out called Typical
Day.
GARY K. WOLF
Correct. It’s a story
in which electronic game playing dictates a person’s every day
actions, and then morphs into a game of life and death.
WALTER WINDCHILL
Right, good. Sounds
fascinating. I’m putting it on my reading list. Wish we had more
time to talk about it. Unfortunately, our program’s over.
GARY K. WOLF
Wait a minute. It’s a
half hour show. We’ve still got twenty five minutes left.
WALTER WINDCHILL
We’re ending a little
early tonight because I’ve got a hot (LONG, SALACIOUS PAUSE) lead.
This is Walter Windchill signing off.
(SOUND OF PHONE
DIALING)
WALTER WINDCHILL
(SOTTO VOICE) I’m on
my way.
SOUND OF AMOROUS MAN
RUNNING AS FAST AS HE POSSIBLY CAN
WALTER WINDCHILL
(VOICE GROWING FAINTER
IN THE DISTANCE) Darling dearest Jessie. You do know what I like!
THWANGING SOUND OF
OVERSTRETCHED TELEPHONE CORD YANKING OUT OF WINDCHILL’S PHONE,
JERKING BACK, SMACKING THE ILLUSIONS OUT OF GARY K. WOLF.
CHEAP-SKATING SOUND OF WALTER WINDCHILL STICKING GARY K. WOLF WITH THE CHECK.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Walter Windchill broadcasting live from Radio Station WOOPS
Good evening
to all my loyal listeners from North to South, East to West, up to down, and all
points in between. This is Walter Windchill broadcasting live from Radio Station
WOOPS in Toontown. Let's dish up
another healthy heap of gossip.
First of all,
you might be wondering. What’s
Windchill doing here? Where’s the howling and growling Wolf maniac who runs this
web site? Well, he’s off taking
another stab at writing the Great American Novelty. This time it’s his third Roger Rabbit
opus, a dipsy-doodled true crime adventure called Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? I don’t know
about you, but I can’t wait to read about what that boffo bunny’s up to this
time.
In the
meantime, I’ll be filling Wolfie’s eight and a half double E
clodhoppers.
Here’s the
first of the insights and outlooks I’m gonna be bringing you on a regular
basis.
One of my
spies in disguise spotted gumshoe Eddie Valiant scraping off a wad of his Double
Bubble on the welcome mat of noted movie director Stanley Kramer. I wonder why a
big deal film director needs a private eyeball? Could it be Stan the Man’s
having some trouble with that wacky-tabacky known as Holly-weed? I hear that’s a big problem in
La-la
Land. Personally, I’ll keep getting my
illusions from the local joy juice, a heaping glass of Toonshine.
That’s it for
tonight. Stay tooned, listeners. There’s
lots more to come.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Introducing... Walter Windchill
How you doing out there, all you
Toontowners? By now, you’ve
probably heard the exciting news.
There’s a new Roger Rabbit novel coming down the toonpike. It’s titled Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? It will be
published by Musa in 2013. For the
next couple of months, while I’m hunched over the old Smith Corona
hunting and pecking my way through the new book, a good friend of mine has agreed to write
my blog for me. You’re gonna like
him. He’s got a dipsy doodle writing style very similar
to my own. Except he deals in fact instead of fancy. He’s one of the few humans who
lives full-time in Toontown. His
name is Walter Windchill. He works
as a gossip columnist for the Toontown
Telltale. He’ll dish the dirt
about what’s going on uptown, downtown, and all round Toontown. He’s a very nosey newsman. Or maybe a newsy knows man. One or the other. His column is called Toontown Through a Keyhole. Walter will
be delivering a regular dose of tiny Toonie tidbits to my website blog. Check
back often. I’ve read his
stuff. It’s unbelievable. Trust me. You won’t want to miss a word.
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