Up-dates!

First off, Happy Birthday to John-Bai. He's already gotten his heart's desire (the Yankees are out of the World Series), so everything else is just vegan gravy.
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Working on a bunch of stuff that need more percolation, so in lieu of talking about my dog's Eating Disorder (He wants to eat ALL THE TIME!!!), I'll just do some house-keeping on recent hidden little additions to the site that you might want to check out:

-Many additions to the Chuck Jones Tribute, including making sure that appearing, disappearing videos are stabilized (for today). You can check out "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 CENTURY," "One Froggy Evening," AND "Duck Amuck," what I think is Jones' masterpiece--a surrealistic exercise in cartooning--playing with the genre, while also entertainingly putting Daffy Duck through a Kafka-esque series of tortures. Good punch-line, too.

-A couple more things added to the Stanley Kubrick Tribute, including an entire 1 hour episode of Charlie Rose interviewing Kubrick's widow, producer brother-in-law and Martin Scorsese which is a great discussion of the guy and his work. Re-established a link to Kubrick's Director's Guild acceptance speech. And added the terrific overview at the beginning of "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures," (which is repeated in the Charlie Rose show, but what can you do?).

-Added a link to Bill Watterson's ("Calvin and Hobbes") review of the new Charles Schulz biography that draws some interesting connections between Schulz's work and his life. The analyisis of the Lucy-Schroeder interplay is a rock-solid revelation into Schulz's personality, while also showing how he would work out his pain through his work. Still waters...

-Not much, but while reading "This is Orson Welles" I came across a quote I'd always wanted to use in the Orson Welles Tribute, but could never locate for the exact wording. It's there now, and shows that however enlarged Welles' ego was, he had no illusions about a director's function or his control over the work done.

- The Jerry Goldsmith Tribute--one clip disappeared--a discussion of the behind-the-scenes-ferfluffle scoring "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" has replaced it.

- A better version of the Jeno's Pizza-Roll commercial is in the Stan Freberg tribute (he just turned 81!).

-In the Walter Murch Tribute--two video's about Murch mixing the helicopters in "Apocalypse Now" in surround (with a nifty little speaker-chart!), and Murch talking about the whole concept of "World-izing" sound effects.

-While doing some clean-up of photo resources, the computer (or Blogger) started eating one of the Hitchcock "Now I've Seen Everything" segments (III- "A Period of Grace"), so it's substantially re-written. Still haven't figured out how things just started disappearing (No, I didn't have the "Insert" key--a computer's version of a "black hole"--depressed) I think the Universe is against me. Maybe I should draw a comic strip.
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Gotta go. Ferry to catch....