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Entirely re-done. This angle works better I think. Compare with the file "Wing Mate" in Scraps.
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I've had to explain this about 8 times already. Didn't anybody read any of the remarks and comments to the other drawings of Rocky?
It is Rocky of Rocky and Bullwinkle. According to an "interview" I wrote, Rocky was revealed as a tomboy who joined the Army Airforce after Pearl Harbor, disguised as a boy.
I've had to explain this about 8 times already. Didn't anybody read any of the remarks and comments to the other drawings of Rocky?
It is Rocky of Rocky and Bullwinkle. According to an "interview" I wrote, Rocky was revealed as a tomboy who joined the Army Airforce after Pearl Harbor, disguised as a boy.
I wish I could go to the air shows she was a personality in. I would also have loved to see a "Solid Gold" plane tearing up the sky. After going to the WWII museum in Tillamook with my family, I couldn't help but think that fantastic old planes should be out there flying and not rusting to death in a hanger...
Sometimes those museum pieces aren't airworthy. It takes a lot of skilled manual labour to bring them up to speed. I recall an air museum near Ontario California (I think) where you could peer into the workshop to see what was being restored.
As well, flying an old aircraft puts a lot of wear on it. Sooner or later it will break down, possibly even have an accident. I think what most museums would like to acheive is a happy balance. The plane would be flown now and then, probably as a public event, but not so often that the plane is at risk.
But if something like three Lancaster bombers surive in flying condition, why not any aircraft? Wouldn't you love to see the remaining XB-70 take off?
As well, flying an old aircraft puts a lot of wear on it. Sooner or later it will break down, possibly even have an accident. I think what most museums would like to acheive is a happy balance. The plane would be flown now and then, probably as a public event, but not so often that the plane is at risk.
But if something like three Lancaster bombers surive in flying condition, why not any aircraft? Wouldn't you love to see the remaining XB-70 take off?
Actually, thinking about that more. I am finding out that, at least through the 40's, there was a type burlesque performer that was known as a "Female Impersonator." Straight men posing as women in full costume. If the book, 'Pretty Things' has the information right, the trend was very popular as a sort of gag among service men. You get your buddy liquored up and then try to set him up with the Female Impersonator in a booth. I suspect that Bugs was likely emulating that gag on screen, since the whole audience was "in on it" over Elmer Fudd and others.
Female impersonators were a part of British humour going back to the Middle Ages, if not before. Women were not allowed to be actors at one time -- probably because most acting in ancient times was related to sacred occasions, and women were not allowed to participate. In the middle ages, acting was considered disreputable, and, again, women were not allowed to participate. Men played the part of women. But as time wore on, women finally began to portray themselves on the stage, except in comic situations. Shakesphere has examples of men in drag and women in men's clothing, taking advantage of the humourous possibilities. By the 19th. century the Female Impersonator was a staple of British comedy. I think it may have just about run its course when Benny Hill finally died...
It may go deeper that a gag among serviice men too. James Clavell's first novel, King Rat, is about British & American soldiers in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. One of the soliders impersonates females in camp plays and becomes a surrogate of womanhood for all the prisoners. Even off ths stage, he acts like a woman, and doubtless even slept with those who were of a mind to. Even those who were not gay, though, looked to him as the next best thing to a real woman. When the war ends and the prisoners are released, suddenly everyone lookd down on him as an aberration, denying the valid role he played for them while they were prisoners. Stripped of his identidy and of everyone's repect, the impersonator kills himself.
Of course, King Rat is a story. But I wonder how much truth there might have been in it? Might not such full-time impersonators actually existed in prison camps?
It may go deeper that a gag among serviice men too. James Clavell's first novel, King Rat, is about British & American soldiers in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. One of the soliders impersonates females in camp plays and becomes a surrogate of womanhood for all the prisoners. Even off ths stage, he acts like a woman, and doubtless even slept with those who were of a mind to. Even those who were not gay, though, looked to him as the next best thing to a real woman. When the war ends and the prisoners are released, suddenly everyone lookd down on him as an aberration, denying the valid role he played for them while they were prisoners. Stripped of his identidy and of everyone's repect, the impersonator kills himself.
Of course, King Rat is a story. But I wonder how much truth there might have been in it? Might not such full-time impersonators actually existed in prison camps?
King Rat is not only Clavell's first novle, but by far his shortest! His other books includ Shogun, and Taipan. I really love Shogan. Taipan is good, but not in the same league. You want to stay away from Whirlwind, and another of his conteporary books -- they read like Dallas. He also has another book about Tokagowa Japan called Gai Jin. It has its merits, but is a real downer. King Rat and Shogan are the best books Clavell wrote, by far.
From an article in the Houston Chronic back on Oct 25th announcing the death of Alex Anderson, AA was "the artist who created the cartoon characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, the flying squirrel and hapless moose who were TV fixtures in the early 1960s..." He was 90 and had Alzheimer's. Also (according to Wikipedia), his uncle was Paul Terry of the Terrytoons cartoon studio. He started off with Crusader rabbit in 1949, but eventually dropped out of animation to work in advertising. He was not part of the production team, but "retained half-ownership of the characters" which included a number of others, including Dudley Doo-Right.
It was all in "The Moose That Roared" some years ago, by Keith Scott. Anderson's idea was a little different from what ended up on the air -- he conceived something called "The Frosbite Falls Review," which might have been somewhere half way between what the R&B show was and what The Muppet Show would be later. As the show went into production, though, its focus concentrated on Rocky & Bullwinkle to the exclusion of other Frosbite Falls regulars.
Anderson was the designer, Ward the gag man. When R&B went off the air, you could see the difference. Ward went on to produce "Fractured Flickers" -- which was all gags and no art. Ward considered animation a necessary nuisance at best.
Anderson was the designer, Ward the gag man. When R&B went off the air, you could see the difference. Ward went on to produce "Fractured Flickers" -- which was all gags and no art. Ward considered animation a necessary nuisance at best.
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