Saturday Morning Cartoons!

"Hare-way to the Stars" (1958)



"Marvin Martian," or "Marvin the Martian," as he is more formally known, first appeared in a 1948's Haredevil Hare. The problem with Marvin in Haredevil, aside from being a nameless at the time, is that his voice doesn't sound the same and he looks a little different. It's like watching those early seasons of The Simpsons where Homer sounds more like Watler Mathau than, well, Homer. Plus, Hare-way has my favorite Marvin Martian quote, "Where's the ka-boom? There should have been an earth-shattering ka-boom." I also picked Hare-way because it's one of the most surreal cartoons to come from Warner Brothers and Chuck Jones. Marvin's space station comes without a ceiling, very few walls and is oddly affected by the laws of gravity.

Here's an image from Haredevil of a less refined Marvin giving his dog K-9 the boot.



Anyone who has seen the improvised horror show Danse Macabre knows that the disembodied voice host of Conrad Brünst that I do is a mix of Marvin with Dr. Strangelove.

Enjoy!

Hare Way To the Stars

Posted Oct 14, 2006

Bugs Bunny meets Marvin on Mars

MOVIE THEATER RANT

If you're like me, every trip to a movie theater is a roll of the dice. I'm either going to have agreat time or be annoyed as hell by the rude people around me. Ken Levine has a nice rant about this on his bog, By Ken Levine.



DADA REHEARSAL




We open on Friday! Last night was our first time going through the whole show in costume and make-up. For some interesting "casual dadas in rehearsal" pictures, go to assistant-co-captain director Bob Fisher's site, Devil Vet.



THE BS NEWS QUIZ OF THE DAY

Yesterday, I asked...

"Actor Kent Hudson Reed recently had to excuse himself from the stage during an outdoor production of 'Julius Caesar.' His parting words as 'Brutus' were what?"

15% said it was "I really did break my leg!"
- No, but his luck would have been better if he had.

14% picked "I just swallowed a bug."
- Ah, the joys and dangers of outdoor drama. Alas, no.

No one picked "I think that's my cellphone."
- Which I thought was a natural given some actors I know. You know who you are.

The correct answer, that 71% of you nailed, was "I seem to have stabbed myself."

According to the Associated Press, in Aspen, Colorado, Julius Caesar lay dead and Brutus was talking to his co-conspirators about swords and blood when he paused and excused himself, saying "I seem to have stabbed myself." Actor/director Kent Hudson reed was quoted as saying "That's what you get for trying to kill Caesar." No, that's what you get for using a real edged sword in a play, dorketh.