Roger Rabbit on Blu-ray!

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

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. 



Tart-tongued tell-tale
Rich Custard
 

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.

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.

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 strip 9 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.

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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 a Beverly 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.

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.

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.

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.