A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS - Peaunts' holiday classic now with 2 newly remastered specials: IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME AGAIN, CHARLIE BROWN; and IT'S FLASHBEAGLE, CHARLIE BROWN. Plus a 'making of' featurette. Peanuts Holiday 3-Film Collection Deluxe Edition Buy, Rent or Watch on FandangoNOW. New Releases. Unusually, she actually gives Charlie Brown good advice, and even an opportunity. She invites him to direct the gang’s Christmas play, the idea being that this will help him to feel more a part of things this season. This perks Charlie Brown up, but there are still things he sees that bother him.
Is best known for composing and performing the jazz score to. The Charlie Brown soundtrack is terrific, and has held up for half a century. But Guaraldi (dubbed 'Dr. Funk' by his friends) made a lot of music beyond the Charlie Brown songs, and it's worth your time to dig in. Here are five of my favorite records by the San Francisco jazz legend.
The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi (1964)This is your classic mid-1960s Latin-flavored dinner jazz. It's effortless, light, and fun. Put this on at your next dinner party and dim the lights just a bit. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (1957)This is the second album by Vince Guaraldi's trio. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing is great 'work music' for me. It's smooth, smart, and gentle.
From All Sides (With Bola Sete) (1964)Guaraldi often performed with Brazilian guitarist, collaborating on three albums: Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete and Friends; From All Sides; and Live at El Matador. They're all great. The interplay between Guaraldi on piano and Sete on classical guitar is fantastic.Note that is on YouTube in its entirety. The video above is just one of many Guaraldi/Sete live performances (on Jazz Casual in 1963).
Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus (1962)This was Guaraldi's breakthrough album, thanks to the tune 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind,' which won a Grammy and went Gold. Listening to that song, you can hear the groove and style that would make the Charlie Brown music such a hit. As the name suggests, this album is a series of performances inspired by the soundtrack to the film. Another brilliant song here is Guaraldi's delicate take on 'Moon River': 5. Alma-Ville (1970)Guaraldi's last studio album, Alma-Ville shows him at his Latin-inspired best.
On 'Uno Y Uno,' Guaraldi even swaps his piano for electric guitar (!). The record is straight-ahead Latin jazz, right down to the jazzy cover of The Beatles' 'Eleanor Rigby,' embedded above.
Where to Get This MusicAll of these albums are available on streaming services, and in recent years, good CD remasters have come out. In some cases, the songs are even on YouTube (as with The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi above). Look around, and ye shall find.Bonus points: If you like Guaraldi's Charlie Brown material, check out George Winston's 1996 album, which opens with a fantastic take on 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind' and just gets better from there. BoJack Horseman, which is getting ready to debut its final episodes on at the end of January, surprised viewers and critics with its gradual dive into the depression of an anthropomorphic horse that used to be the star of a banal, early 1990s, TGIF-type sitcom. On the series, the town of Hollywoo is made up of both humans and talking animals full of hopes, dreams, and regrets.Will Arnett stars as the voice of the titular equine who, at the beginning of season 3, is faced with the consequences of getting what he wants: legitimate acting recognition for playing the lead in a movie about his hero, Secretariat.
Star Aaron Paul plays BoJack's human roommate, Todd; Amy Sedaris stars as BoJack's agent, Princess Carolyn; and Alison Brie portrays BoJack's ghostwriter, Diane Nguyen. BoJack Horseman’s creator and production designer have been friends since high school. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for NetflixBoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and production designer/producer Lisa Hanawalt in a high school theater class, coming up with ideas for TV shows. Even while still in high school, Bob-Waksberg had anthropomorphism on the brain. It was there that he wrote a play about a boy with who just wanted to fit in. While the two were in college, they teamed up to make a web comic Tip Me Over, Pour Me Out.Years later, while Hanawalt was becoming a regular James Beard Award for her illustration collections of characters with animal heads on human bodies, Bob-Waksberg was living like his future creation Todd: In a small bedroom 'that was more of a closet' in a big beautiful Hollywood Hills house formerly owned.
It gave him the idea of coming up with a 'who had every success he could have wanted and still couldn't find a way to be happy,' someone who felt 'simultaneously on top of the world and so isolated and alone.' Since the two had always wanted to collaborate on a television project, Bob-Waksberg proposed combining his feeling of isolation with Hanawalt's drawings. Some BoJack Horseman characters are modeled on Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Lisa Hanawalt’s former classmates.One day Bob-Waksberg Hanawalt, “Oh, do you remember that girl who was in our English class senior year of high school? Draw her, but as a dolphin.” Sextina Aquafina, singer of 'My C.itoris is Gynormous,' was born.
None of BoJack Horseman’s characters have tails. NetflixDespite the fact that about half of the characters in the BoJack Horseman universe are animals, none of them have tails. That’s a decision production designer and co-producer Hanawalt made early on. 'I’ve drawn a couple animal people with tails in my personal work, but it makes more sense to draw them without, and I’m not sure why,” she Business Insider in 2015.The only minor exception is in the season 2 episode “Escape From L.A.,” which features a scorpion—with its trademark stinger—as a prom DJ.“So he’s got this big tail thing, but I rationalize it by saying it’s coming out of his upper back,” Hanawalt told Business Insider. Michael Eisner signed off on BoJack Horseman.Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner's Tornante Company to produce the BoJack concept and sold it to Netflix. After a nervous and inexperienced Bob-Waksberg pitched the show to Eisner himself, Eisner expressed reluctance about putting another series satirizing show business on the air.
Once Bob-Waksberg talked about why it was still interesting to him, Eisner agreed to just let him do it his way. BoJack himself was fairly easy to come up with.Bob-Waksberg doesn't remember where he got the name of his protagonist. 'BoJack just sounded like a horse name to me,'. 'I don't know where I heard it or how I came up with it.' Hanawalt claimed that BoJack Horseman was one of the easiest characters to design, quickly picturing the sweater, the shoes, and his grumpy expression as soon as Bob-Waksberg described him to her. BoJack Horseman's human characters were the hardest to create.For Hanawalt, Diane and Todd were the hardest characters to create. 'Humans are generally much trickier to draw because we’re so used to looking at and analyzing human faces,'.
'The slightest tweak makes a huge difference in how we perceive that character. Todd went through dozens of variations before we got him right, and then we changed him even more.' Todd Chavez is one of the first openly asexual characters on television. HO/AMPASAt the 2000 Academy Awards ceremony, after Angelina Jolie planted a kiss on her brother and made the world collectively squirm, she went onstage and collected a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Lisa in Girl, Interrupted. She later presented the trophy to her mother, Marcheline Bertrand. The statuette may have been boxed up and put into storage when Marcheline died in 2007, but it hasn't yet surfaced. 'I didn't actually lose it,', 'but nobody knows where it is at the moment.'
Whoopi Goldberg. Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesIn 2002, Whoopi Goldberg sent her Best Supporting Actress Oscar back to the Academy to have it cleaned and detailed, because apparently you can do that. The Academy then sent the Oscar on to R.S.
Of Chicago, the company that manufactures the trophies. When it arrived in the Windy City, however, the package was empty. It appeared that someone had opened the UPS package, removed the Oscar, then neatly sealed it all back up and sent it on its way. It was later found in a trash can at an airport in Ontario, California. The Oscar was returned to the Academy, who returned it to Whoopi without cleaning it. 'Oscar will never leave my house again,'.3. Olympia Dukakis.
Jason Merritt/Getty ImagesIn 2010, Hollywood legend Jeff Bridges won his first-ever Oscar for his portrayal of alcoholic country singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart, but it was already missing by the time next year's ceremony rolled around, when he was nominated yet again for his role in the Coen brothers's True Grit.When asked about his year-old statuette, Bridges that 'It's been in a few places since last year but I haven’t seen it for a while now.' Finding the MIA Oscar seemed even more urgent when Bridges lost the 2011 Best Actor Oscar to Colin Firth for The King's Speech. 'I'm hoping it will turn up, especially now that I haven't won a spare,' Bridges said. 'But Colin deserves it. I just hope he looks after it better.' Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesPerhaps Jeff Bridges secretly cursed Colin Firth as he said those aforementioned words, because Firth nearly left his new trophy on a toilet tank the very night he received it. After a night of cocktails at the Oscar after-parties in 2011, Firth had to be chased down by a bathroom attendant, who had found the eight-pound statuette in the bathroom stall.
Notice we said allegedly: Shortly after those reports surfaced, Firth's rep issued a statement the 'story is completely untrue. Though it did give us a good laugh.' Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesIn 1945, 7-year-old Margaret O'Brien was presented with a Juvenile Academy Award for being the outstanding child actress of the year. About, the O'Briens' maid took the award home to polish it, as she had done before, but never returned. The missing Oscar was forgotten about when O'Brien's mother died shortly thereafter, and when Margaret finally remembered to call the maid, the number had been disconnected.
She ended up receiving a replacement from the Academy.There's a happy ending to this story, though. In 1995, a couple of guys were picking their way through a flea market when they happened upon the Oscar. They put it up for auction, which is when word got back to the Academy that the missing trophy had resurfaced. The guys who found the Oscar pulled it from auction and presented it, in person, to Margaret O'Brien.
'I'll never give it to anyone to polish again,' she said.9.