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DC Follies

Here's a link to a post by my friend, Mark Evanier, about the sad current state of affairs at DC Comics. If anyone should know about this company, he should. Key quote:

The last time I was up there, it felt peopled with folks who were temps, whether they knew that or not. I also had a hard time holding it in my brain that I was in the DC offices because absolutely nothing about that company, apart from the trademarked names of some of the characters they publish, connected for me to the DC Comics I read in the fifties and sixties and worked for in the seventies and a few decades after.

:judge: Mark said a mouthful. I could have posted this in the workplace thread or even "There's A Protest Going On". Institutions change internally over time, sometimes radically, but keep the old external symbols with which they can manipulate people. :vic:
 
Ojai Sam said:
DC Follies

Here's a link to a post by my friend, Mark Evanier, about the sad current state of affairs at DC Comics. If anyone should know about this company, he should. Key quote:

The last time I was up there, it felt peopled with folks who were temps, whether they knew that or not. I also had a hard time holding it in my brain that I was in the DC offices because absolutely nothing about that company, apart from the trademarked names of some of the characters they publish, connected for me to the DC Comics I read in the fifties and sixties and worked for in the seventies and a few decades after.

:judge: Mark said a mouthful. I could have posted this in the workplace thread or even "There's A Protest Going On". Institutions change internally over time, sometimes radically, but keep the old external symbols with which they can manipulate people. :vic:
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I been following this a bit. I follow the comics biz a little, even as my comicbook reading/buying has dropped to virtually nil.

It's logical, depressing, predictable that AT&T would initiate and carry out the moves they have. The main reason Marvel has been able to continue their comics output is the company made a focused effort to create movies around their characters instead of selling all rights to the highest (and most artistically incapable) bidders.

DC woefully mismanaged their intellectual properties on the big screen. And now, the employees and fans pay the price. AT&T wants to make a profit. If the intellectual properties are losing money as printed characters but making money as cinematic characters, it makes sense on one level to discontinue the former and focus on the latter. We might argue that the creative input of the writers and artists of the printed product influences and enhances the cinematic product, but that seems like it would be an uphill batter in a conglomeration board room that includes no members from the printed product.

Being so intimately connected with the company for so long, I can't imagine how this feels to Evanier.
 
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Prince: the story of 1999 – Podcast

The official podcast dedicated to Prince, the singular artist and artistic visionary. Featuring explorations of Prince's massive discography, interviews with his trusted collaborators, and stories about his groundbreaking, prolific career. Brought to you by The Prince Estate, which passionately...
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Last week, I discovered and dl'd this podcast. Over the past couple of days, I was able to listen to some of it. I'm currently in the middle of episode 3.

For a Prince fan, this is fantastic! So much Prince history here. And so much I had never heard before. Basically, it covers a 2+ year period from the time after Controversy was released, the Controversy tour timeline, the Rolling Stones opening act debacle, the creation of the songs that would be on 1999, the creation of his side bands (The Time, Vanity 6, etc) and his alter-ego Jamie Starr, and more. Eventually, it will get to the release and (I assume) tour of 1999, but I haven't gotten that far yet.

Very well done.
 
JazzyRandy said:
podtail.com

Prince: the story of 1999 – Podcast

The official podcast dedicated to Prince, the singular artist and artistic visionary. Featuring explorations of Prince's massive discography, interviews with his trusted collaborators, and stories about his groundbreaking, prolific career. Brought to you by The Prince Estate, which passionately...
podtail.com podtail.com
Last week, I discovered and dl'd this podcast. Over the past couple of days, I was able to listen to some of it. I'm currently in the middle of episode 3.

For a Prince fan, this is fantastic! So much Prince history here. And so much I had never heard before. Basically, it covers a 2+ year period from the time after Controversy was released, the Controversy tour timeline, the Rolling Stones opening act debacle, the creation of the songs that would be on 1999, the creation of his side bands (The Time, Vanity 6, etc) and his alter-ego Jamie Starr, and more. Eventually, it will get to the release and (I assume) tour of 1999, but I haven't gotten that far yet.

Very well done.
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You prompted me to look this up:

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That Time Prince Got Booed Off the Rolling Stones’ Stage

Prince wasn't yet a huge star when he opened for the Rolling Stones on Oct. 9, 1981. Fans booed the singer off the stage while throwing food at his band.
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Of course, this upholds my faith in humanity. :rolleyes:
 
Unsomnambulist said:
You prompted me to look this up:

ultimateclassicrock.com

That Time Prince Got Booed Off the Rolling Stones’ Stage

Prince wasn't yet a huge star when he opened for the Rolling Stones on Oct. 9, 1981. Fans booed the singer off the stage while throwing food at his band.
ultimateclassicrock.com ultimateclassicrock.com

Of course, this upholds my faith in humanity. :rolleyes:
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In that article you linked to was what Keith Richards said about the incident.
Following the Stones’ tour, Keith Richards was asked about the Prince incidents. “Prince has to find out what it means to be a prince. That’s the trouble with conferring a title on yourself before you’ve proved it. That was his attitude when he opened for us on the tour, and it was insulting to our audience. You don’t try to knock off the headline like that when you’re playing a Stones [concert]. You’d be much better off just being yourself and protecting that. He’s a prince who thinks he’s a king already. Good luck to him.”
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That quote also included that observation that Richards was "apparently unaware that Prince was his birth name."
Either way, it doesn't sound like the behavior of the crowd bothered Richards at all. :meh:
 
In praise of Richard Deacon, and the Tertiary Non-supporting Role

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Richard Deacon (actor) - Wikipedia

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On TCM during Thanksgiving, there is a Hitchcock marathon. It happens every year, but this year I didn't click past it.

In fact, I sat through several films. I started with Rear Window, moved on to The Man Who Knew Too Much, and progressed to The Birds. I had never watched TMWKTM prior to this, but the others I had seen several times, beginning in my misspent childhood and youth.

There is a scene in The Birds, in which the Tippi Hedren character Melanie is dropping off lovebirds to the city apartment door of Mitch, the Rod Taylor character. A man with a stylish, groomed moustache rides up the elevator with her and notices that she is dropping off the birds for his across-the-hall neighbor. He asks who they are for, and she responds. He then tells her that Mitch will not be home in San Francisco for the entire weekend, as he is visiting his family in Bodega Bay. Upon entering his own apartment, he is never seen again in the film.

Now, this man was immediately recognizable to me, but I could not remember his name. Haven't I seen him on The Dick Van Dyke Show, as Mel Cooley, the cruel butt of endless jokes from Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) about his hairline? Haven't I see him in a variety of other scenes or character roles on TV, like Here's Lucy?

Yes, and there's more.

Rarely notable roles in rarely notable films.

He played deadpan very well.
 
So in my other rant, I mentioned Law and Order SVU which I always jokingly called SUV
Off to the internet to see if there's some fun image or meme creators that share my joke
Not many surprisingly but:

Overheard in the store: Law and Order: SUV – RAYGUN
 
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