The ongoing Comedy Countdown at Wonders in the Dark is in full swing, and my second contribution to the event is now up on the site! By sheer coincidence, number 69 on the countdown is the 1955 animated short One Froggy Evening, directed by none other than the subject of our week-long animation celebration, Chuck Jones!…
It’s been said that artists, like all creative people, draw from what they know in creating their artistic visions. This is particularly true for animator Charles “Chuck” M. Jones, who parlayed his experiences growing up with a quixotic father and an indulgent, supportive mother into a career that is virtually unparalleled for its influence and…
Friday, September 21st marks the 100th birthday of animation pioneer Chuck Jones, and in honor of this memorable natal day, True Classics is dedicating the next week’s worth of posts to the life and career of this cartoon genius. Several events marking the occasion have been scheduled in California for the upcoming week, but seeing…
This is a busy time for all of the members of the True Classics crew … one of us has started a Ph.D program and thus will have no discernible life for the next five years or so; one of us is in the midst of an enormous work project that has completely taken over…
Just a warning: this post is brought to you by the letter “X” and his two friends who are–funnily enough–also named “X.” (This is my roundabout way of telling you that there may be what we will politely term “delicate content” in this post, and if you are easily offended by pornography, you may want…
Gun-for-hire Walter Steale, a world-weary veteran of World War I, finds himself in the middle of a political quagmire when his brother, Sam, the lieutenant governor of California, asks him to exert some muscle on behalf of his boss, Governor Edwin Davies. But when the man he’d muscled ends up dead, Steale must go on…
My first contribution to the ongoing Comedy Countdown at Wonders in the Dark is up now … at number 79, it’s one of my favorite romantic comedies, 1959’s Pillow Talk, starring the ever-adorable bathing pair of Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Head over there now to check out the post, and feel free to join the…
August has come and gone–a busy month, all things considered, but filled with interesting doings here at True Classics: TCM’s annual Summer Under the Stars event is over, as is the SUTS blogathon co-hosted by our friends Michael at ScribeHard on Film and Jill from Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence. Thirty-one days of stars,…
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