The trio vs. the pirate-ladyman Recently lis opined that no native Utard remembers Lighthouse 20, the kid show that was broadcast on UHF channel 20. Now I have a slight dispute with lis, in that I remember the pirate on the show was played by a woman, and she recalls someone very different (a man, I presume). Now Lighthouse 20 was not by any means my favorite show (hell I think it replaced Gillagan's Island!), but I do remember it--not really fondly but I remember it. The real purpose of my writing is that I made the comparison of Lighthouse 20 to Hotel Balderdash--a show that apparently ran for 10 years on channel four here in SLC. Now this show was the bomb; not only did it start at 6:00 am 6:45 am and show nothing but 30's-late 40's Warner Brothers cartoons (you know, Bugs and Daffy, but not Porky Pig and certainly not that crap WB churned out from the 50s onward.) These cartoons, of course, were made for adults and the humor was mostly sophisticated in a slapstick kind...
sighhh..Wookie can be so surprising.
ReplyDeleteWTF is this????? Is this how you spend your time at the Learning Center (or is it the Writing Center)?
ReplyDeleteHah. It is the Writing Center, and this is how I spend my time at home.
ReplyDeleteWork is work.
Home is home.
The twain rarely meet.
Well, wherever you did it, I think it's a marvelous use of time and energy. Seriously. Are there other wookie adventures to be seen? It reminds me of Todd Hayne's "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story." It has a similar aesthetic and worldview.
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That's all. You'll note the fine cinematic skills I demonstrate in these filums. I am gunning for George Lucas's job. I mean my little movies have all the well-honed writing/directing/editing skillz that "Revenge of the Sith" has!
I've got one more in my Wookie saga coming. Like RoTS, it is my final dealing with the subject. Like Lucas, I shall turn my attention to ART FILM after triffling with this commercial nonsense.
Actually I left off the original that inspired it all. It is back there with the others in April.
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