I don't remember the Garfield Halloween cartoon. I have started using "The Nightmare Before Christmas" as a Halloween classic, since it bridges that occasion with Christmas. I also like to seek out the Disney cartoon that showcases "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", which is still a great one these many decades later. Also good is "Sleepy Hollow", the movie staring Johnny Depp. Alas, I spent most of Saturday evening and night watching stuff on TV (AMC, TVOne, TCM), and didn't pull out any of the spooky fare on tape or DVD.
----- Original Message ----- From: wlro...@aol.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2009 9:33:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Jackson third richest dead celebrity Thanks I will look into it. When I was little I would always watch Charlie Brown and then the Garfield cartoon as well. --Lavender From: Keith Johnson Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 8:37 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Jackson third richest dead celebrity Ha-ha! You know how much I love it? I have it on tape, and I *still* watch it on TV! Another really, really good Halloween related cartoon is "The Halloween Tree", based on a Ray Bradbury work. It's about a group of kids who magically travel through time to chase and retrieve the spirit of their dying friend. They need to retrieve the spirit in order to save him from a mysterious man who wants to claim it for his own. It's a haunting movie, especially for an American-made cartoon. At one point, the boy's spirit intones "I'm fading away", and it's genuinely disturbing to see what may be him slipping to his death. The polar opposite of the fun and kid-friendly Charlie Brown 'toon, with a dark and gloomy look that fits the subject matter, this is a great Halloween-themed cartoon. I highly recommend seeking it out. Here's a long clip at You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NqgidFIHw8 ----- Original Message ----- From: wlro...@aol.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 5:59:52 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Jackson third richest dead celebrity OK I am late, I only watched It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown for the 32nd time. I am 31 and by the time this email is posted it would have already came on twice already. I plan on sitting in a pumpkin patch waiting for the great pumpkin if he shows up--I mean when he shows up LOL --Lavender From: Keith Johnson Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:42 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Jackson third richest dead celebrity Being too lazy to Google, i want to ask who is Jimmy Spelling? And to what is Einstein's earning attributed? Did his widow or first wife secure any rights to anything earned through his name? Does his estate make money somehow (I'm thinking of all those t-shirts with his mug, sticking is tongue out, are those copyrwrited?) I will say, "Dr. Seuss" deserves to be on the list, as does Charles Schulz. I watched "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" this week on ABC, which makes, oh, I guess the thirty-seventh or thirty-eighth straight year i've done so. I love "A Charlie Brown Christmas" even more, but haven't watched it the last two years. Deaths in my wife's and my families made it too hard to watch, as both of us were hit by memories of loved ones gone with whom we used to enjoy it. But Imma assay to watch it again this Christmas: the season just ain't right without Charlie sticking up for the real meaning of Christmas! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:45:27 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Jackson third richest dead celebrity I love Forbe's richest dead celebrity list. Dead people making more coin that living peoples appeals to both my sense of the macabre and my sense of paradox. (I would scratch Yves Saint Laurent from this list because (a) he lives on as a corporate entity (b) the bulk of the $350 million was not earned from creative work Laurent did while he was alive and (c) Laurent is not a celebrity. I'm just sayin.'). ~rave! Jackson third richest dead celebrity (UKPA) – 2 hours ago Despite raking in millions of dollars through the sale of rights to footage of his final rehearsals, Michael Jackson is not the top-earning dead celebrity, a new survey has found. Forbes magazine puts the former King of Pop in third place behind Yves Saint Laurent and composing duo Rodgers and Hammerstein ($235 million). The fashion designer earned 350 million dollars (£214 million) over the past year, dwarfing the 90 million dollars (£55 million) taken in by the Jackson estate. Laurent, who died of brain cancer in 2008, appears at the top of the index largely due to an auction of artwork including paintings by Mondrian and Matisse that he once owned. The bulk of Jackson's posthumous cash came through selling the rights to This Is It, a film based on rehearsal footage for what would have been his comeback concerts in London. Forbes estimates that this income was bumped up by the sale of around 9 million albums and 5.5 millions digital downloads since his death in June. Elvis Presley came in fourth in the list, making 55 million dollars (£34 million) over the last 12 months. 1. Yves Saint Laurent ($350 mil) 2. Rogers and Hammerstein ($235 mil) 3. Michael Jackson ($90 mil) 4. Elvis Presley ($55 mil) 5. J.R.R. Tolkien ($50) 6. Charles Schulz ($35) 7. John Lennon ($15) 8. Dr. Seuss ($15) 9. Albert Einstein ($10) 10. Michael Cricton ($9) 11. Aaron Spelling ($8) 12. Jimi Spelling ($8) 13. Andy Warhol ($6)
