7005 - I want to float in a boat in a moat. (no goat required)

[scottobear]

Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater into fresh water.

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I would like a pajama set done in prison stripes.

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If you're plugged, been slugged, down in the mouth or down in the belly, mad or sad or mean-spirited and dog-kickin' angry, I got the stuff to make you right!

Random Lynching factoid: When you hang a man, put the knot of the noose behind the man to be hanged's left ear... better odds of breaking his neck when he's dropped. Otherwise, he'll strangle, and probably take his time choking to death, instead.

I wonder if there ever was a James West / Jonah Hex crossover? I bet Hex'd do quite a number on Miguelito Loveless. Maybe toss in Brisco County, the Rifleman, the Barclays and the Cartwrights.

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I want some of these for my ceiling. Duck butts. (reminds me of this song, too. 15 meg mov)

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Random Scotto Factoid: I was part of a major RSS syndication drama, a few years back.

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STUDIOS SUE PIXAR, DEMAND BAD MOVIE

"Stop making the rest of us look bad," demand Hollywood executives

Hollywood — The eight major Hollywood studios have filed suit against CGI animation company Pixar for its consistent record of quality movies. The complaint alleges that with its sixth consecutive profitable and critically acclaimed film in “The Incredibles,” Pixar is overturning a decades-long public relations campaign waged by Hollywood studios to convince the public that it’s impossible to consistently make high quality films. “If Pixar doesn’t get with the program, we’re going to have to fundamentally change the way we do business,” groused Paramount chairwoman Sherry Lansing, whose studio hasn’t produced a hit film in several years. “I repeat my recommendation to Steve Jobs that he pay John Travolta and Halle Berry $20 million each to provide voices for an effects-laden remake of ‘The Fox and the Hound.’”
Plaintiffs in the suit are Paramount, Universal, MGM, Fox, Disney, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, and Sony Pictures. All eight studios have worked together since 1980 in a sophisticated PR effort to make all Americans believe that it’s inevitable most films will be poor to mediocre. The campaign has included payoffs to critics, training for film school professors, and talking points distributed to corporate spokespeople. Because of the successful campaign, executives have successfully built a system in which they spend tens of millions of dollars each year on development and end up producing as many critically and commercially successful films as a monkey throwing darts at a board would, according to scientific studies.

Asked for comment, a Pixar spokesperson said he believes the suit was motivated by studio executives’ indignation that Pixar and Apple CEO Steve Jobs refused to send them each a free iPod Photo.

According to the studios’ talking points, it’s impossible to consistently make more than 50% of films be high quality, with an average hit to miss ratio of 1:2. But with its six profitable and acclaimed films, Pixar is beginning to make many Americans questions why it actually seems possible to consistently make successful films.

“Those guys are ruining it for everybody,” said Warner Bros. president Alan Horn. “We can’t possibly be expected to stay in business when we’re up against a studio that doesn’t have dozens of unqualified young executives with little or no background or interest in film meddling in the creative process of all their movies.”

“It just goes to show what I’ve always said,” added Universal Chairwoman Stacy Snider. “It should be illegal for companies outside of Los Angeles to produce motion pictures.”

The complaint asks that a court award the eight studios $1 billion in damages or compel Pixar to hire 118 unqualified development executives, option the rights to 38 scripts and books it has no intention of turning into films, and immediately greenlight sequels to “Toy Story” and “Finding Nemo” with $100 million-plus budgets and hire directors whose only experience is in music videos to oversee them.

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1 year ago - sagas, dirty food chains

2 years ago - I am Augustine, brain thieves, kazaa gets me mst3k

3 years ago - Scooby-doo freedoms, disease test, new lj client

4 years ago - paperwad fetch, bad breakfast, drugs

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current mood: my monkey and robot get along.

current music: MvR (5 meg asx)

Comments

it's hot in the box.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I was! Dean was raised in a skinner box. :)

I first saw that quote on the lid of a snapple bottle. :)

All hail Dr. Orpheus!

[queenmabwords.livejournal.com]

Coolness!

My Sweetie loves Dr. O the best of all the characters. He's trying to teach himself the Dr. O voice. Too funny!

That was a snapple bottle factoid? That's probably where the writers got the fact from. Snapple seems their 'style'.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Dr. O is pretty easy to do... though I lapse into overly operatic style if I'm not careful.

I like doing the ray romano-sounding guard for the Monarch!