jmiertschin

Alan Thicke hosted this show and it only shows Fred Savage on the credits? What's up with that? I was thinking about this show because because I just saw Alan's son Robin Thicke play and I was thinking, "What was that show Alan Thicke did on Saturday mornings on ABC about the animals." It was this show but you'd never know from IMDb. This is one of the few times I've found IMDb to have incomplete info on a mainstream network show. The thing that I always remembered about this show was the theme song. It went something like, "Animals are the funniest people, we love animals." I also remember this really good bit they had they're panel (who were playing for their favorite animal charity) guess what monkeys and squirls would do to get food and it was hilarious. The snow monkeys in particular stand out in my mind. I think they had so much about snow monkeys because the show had some deal with Tokyo television to get footage from them. They were always showing snow monkeys (not that I'm complaining).

I just saw the Tennesse William's film Suddenly Last Summer the other night and I found there to be a distinct similarity between Katherine Hepburn's character Violet and Julianna Moore's Maude from The Big Lebowski. Now I don't think that Maude is a copy of Violet but if you listen to the way she talks and the way she leads a conversation you can hear a distinct similarity between them. The best part of the movie to make this comparison is when Hepburn is showing Montgomery Clift around her son's garden and the way she talks about flowers and her niece Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor) and then compare that to when Maude first meets The Dude and she is talking about art, the female form, sex, and her step mother Bunny. I don't know, maybe it's just me. For other Cohen Brother inspiration check out The Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake film "The Glass Key," as inspiration for "Miller's Crossing," and check out Akim Tamiroff as Uncle Joe Grande in "Touch of Evil" as a model for several characters that Jon Polito plays in a bunch of Cohen Brother's movies.

I just saw Suddenly Last Summer the other night and I found there to be a distinct similarity between Katherine Hepburn's character Violet and Julianna Moore's Maude from The Big Lebowski. Now I don't think that Maude is a copy of Violet but if you listen to the way she talks and the way she leads a conversation you can hear a distinct similarity between them. The best part of the movie to make this comparison is when Hepburn is showing Montgomery Clift around her son's garden and the way she talks about flowers and her niece Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor) and then compare that to when Maude first meets The Dude and she is talking about art, the female form, sex, and her step mother Bunny. I don't know, maybe it's just me. For other Cohen Brother inspiration check out The Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake film "The Glass Key," as inspiration for "Miller's Crossing," and check out Akim Tamiroff as Uncle Joe Grande in "Touch of Evil" as a model for several characters that Jon Polito plays in a bunch of Cohen Brother's movies.