Both those guys were good. A good friend of mine was once directing an episode of "Home Improvement" over at Mauschwitz, and he and his 1st AD spent one lunch hour in the studio cafeteria arguing over whether Bugs Bunny was better than Mickey Mouse (he took Bugs). By the time he finished lunch and went back to his office, there was a per…
Both those guys were good. A good friend of mine was once directing an episode of "Home Improvement" over at Mauschwitz, and he and his 1st AD spent one lunch hour in the studio cafeteria arguing over whether Bugs Bunny was better than Mickey Mouse (he took Bugs). By the time he finished lunch and went back to his office, there was a personally signed memo from Michael Eisner, telling him how much they liked working with him and looked forward to doing so in the future, but he should keep his "non-work-related" artistic opinions to himself. (And now you know why we called it "Mauschwitz") After that, he brought lunch from home and ate in his office. No need to tempt the Staatspolizei.
no contest. there was NEVER a contest. Mickey is a shill and always was (although I always thought he looked a little like Tyrone Power). bland, bland, bland. Bugs is the coolest guy in the room, whatever the room happens to be. and, of course, Bugs is Jewish. I maintain that ALL characters voiced by Mel Blanc are Jewish BY INTENTION.
Tom, you've told that story before, and I thought it was outrageous. I was so unnerved by it that I told two of my showbiz friends (one of them being a longtime Disney orchestrator who HATES everything about Disney). what amazed me is that they had absolutely no problem getting that the Disney people were pissed off, although neither one of them attempted to deny that Bugs is WAY better.
of course, they're both also Jewish. and Warner Bros. was a VERY Jewish studio. for these purposes, I am capitalizing "Jewish," which I pointedly never do.
The story is that the producer at Warner Bros. cartoons wangled a lunch invitation with the Warners for McKimson, Friz Freleng, and Chuck Jones. When they sat down, Harry Warner said, "All I know about cartoons is that we have Mickey Mouse." The three thought it might be a joke and finally Friz said, "We'll do our best to make sure he remains the most popular animated character." Jack Warner pointed at them and said, "If you want to keep your jobs, you will." Several years later, Jack closed down the unit and Friz supposedly said to Chuck, "They found out!"
Both those guys were good. A good friend of mine was once directing an episode of "Home Improvement" over at Mauschwitz, and he and his 1st AD spent one lunch hour in the studio cafeteria arguing over whether Bugs Bunny was better than Mickey Mouse (he took Bugs). By the time he finished lunch and went back to his office, there was a personally signed memo from Michael Eisner, telling him how much they liked working with him and looked forward to doing so in the future, but he should keep his "non-work-related" artistic opinions to himself. (And now you know why we called it "Mauschwitz") After that, he brought lunch from home and ate in his office. No need to tempt the Staatspolizei.
Bugs was MUCH better......:-)
no contest. there was NEVER a contest. Mickey is a shill and always was (although I always thought he looked a little like Tyrone Power). bland, bland, bland. Bugs is the coolest guy in the room, whatever the room happens to be. and, of course, Bugs is Jewish. I maintain that ALL characters voiced by Mel Blanc are Jewish BY INTENTION.
Tom, you've told that story before, and I thought it was outrageous. I was so unnerved by it that I told two of my showbiz friends (one of them being a longtime Disney orchestrator who HATES everything about Disney). what amazed me is that they had absolutely no problem getting that the Disney people were pissed off, although neither one of them attempted to deny that Bugs is WAY better.
of course, they're both also Jewish. and Warner Bros. was a VERY Jewish studio. for these purposes, I am capitalizing "Jewish," which I pointedly never do.
The story is that the producer at Warner Bros. cartoons wangled a lunch invitation with the Warners for McKimson, Friz Freleng, and Chuck Jones. When they sat down, Harry Warner said, "All I know about cartoons is that we have Mickey Mouse." The three thought it might be a joke and finally Friz said, "We'll do our best to make sure he remains the most popular animated character." Jack Warner pointed at them and said, "If you want to keep your jobs, you will." Several years later, Jack closed down the unit and Friz supposedly said to Chuck, "They found out!"
I'm confused...was it Jack or Harry?
when I want to amuse myself, I think about all these sedentary jewish guys actually trying to play Polo. the dumbest fucking thing that ever happened.
One of the things I liked about Chas Bukowski is that he hated Mickey Mouse. That’s explained by his wife Linda in the doc “Born Into This”