Saturday, January 12, 2019
Friday, January 11, 2019
Patty Duke as Thumbelina and Sessue Hayakawa as the Mole in Rankin/Bass The Daydreamer
C. 2018 Miser Bros Press/Rick Goldschmidt Archives
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Wednesday, January 09, 2019
Derek
Crazy cool Christmas stuff still coming in the mail! Art by my cool cat pal Derek Yaniger of Setzer! Thanks to Sherri Hansen for picking up at his Milwaukee show! #briansetzer #derekyaniger #coolcatchristmas #art
Tuesday, January 08, 2019
The Best!
I still like the movie upon my third viewing, but watching it a third time I just realized that the end of his life was highly censored, probably due to the involvement of Elvis Presley Enterprises. 0 mention of the beautiful women in his life at the end of his life. I know there was Ginger and Linda. There may have been more. I guess it didn't fit the narrative for the end of his life in this documentary. I know he had to be happy with beautiful women in his life. I think he was also happy during the movie years and there was much good during those years, but all interviewed did a beat down on the films and said he wasn't happy. He sure looked happy in those films and did some amazing things, like his comedy work in Follow That Dream, as one example. I do agree, as an artist he wasn't growing dramatically, but that changed with the 1968 Comeback special.
I ran into similar censorship with the Rankin/Bass blu ray documentaries of 2018, as did others. Some of the people involved didn't want the real truth to be told, as it hurts their agenda. FACT: Some that went through with interviews were actually censored after the fact, for crediting the talent behind the Rankin/Bass specials, including Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass. I will talk much more about this in the future. The truth is always the best policy and this kind of political censorship is wrong and the people doing it, know it. Greed is a terrible thing.
Happy Birthday Elvis!
Happy Birthday to Elvis Presley! I recently picked up this 1968 RCA Victor original, after watching The Searcher again. A mini-version of it came in my Elvis cd box set. Long live the king! #happybirthday #elvispresley #theking
Tuesday
We got a nice mention in the new DEMO magazine via Columbia College Chicago, as we work on making it a six pack! #rankinbass #new #book #columbiacollegechicago #demo
Monday, January 07, 2019
The Amazing Spider-man
I remember when the Amazing Spider-man was Amazing! With the cool stylings of Steve Ditko and Jazzy Johnny Romita! My late friend Tony Peters (Rankin/Bass designer of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), worked at Grantray-Lawrence after R/B and on all the early Marvel cartoons. Ironically, the voice cast of the Spider-man cartoons were the same group of actors featured in Rudolph too. #spiderman #marvel #antonypeters #grantraylawrence #steveditko #johnromitasr
Sunday, January 06, 2019
Jack Benny
For my Sunday night I decided to do one of my favorite comedians from Waukegan, IL! Jack Benny worked with Rankin/Bass in The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians (art comes with a free dvd of the tv special). The special was designed by Bruce Stark and Jack appeared with his Maxwell and best friend George Burns! #jackbenny #rankinbass #themadmadmadcomedians #comedian
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