Re: Mickey Mouse

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Ballard
Me, I always preferred Mickey Rat. http://www.pulsatingdream.com/mickey_rat.html = * the Council Republic is not the culmination of everything, and even less does it stand for the most perfect form in which humans can live

Re: Mickey Mouse

2003-11-18 Thread joanna bujes
for the kiddies, highly recommended. Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: It's a true testament to Walt that he was able to create Mickey Mouse with such depth and personality that, on his 75th anniversary, Mickey continues to take us on adventures, make us laugh and inspire us, said Mark Eisner, chairman

Re: Mickey Mouse

2003-11-18 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Yeah, fuck Disney and the mouse. Infinitely more delectable is the divine Betty (Boop), whose creator, Max Fleischer was far more imaginative, fun, creative, iconoclastic than Disney. You can get the complete (6 vol) Betty Boop cartoons on video for sixty bucks or so. Endless

Re: Mickey Mouse

2003-11-18 Thread Devine, James
did Walt D. really develop Mickey M.? or did he rip off others, the way he did with his animators? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine It's a true testament to Walt that he was able to create Mickey Mouse with such depth

Re: Mickey Mouse

2003-11-18 Thread ravi
Devine, James wrote: did Walt D. really develop Mickey M.? or did he rip off others, the way he did with his animators? lawrence lessig, in a talk at princeton, suggested that the character (mickey mouse) was copied from an existing one (buster keaton's 'steamboat bill') for 'steamboat willie

Re: Mickey Mouse

2003-11-18 Thread Devine, James
-Original Message- From: ravi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Mickey Mouse Devine, James wrote: did Walt D. really develop Mickey M.? or did he rip off others, the way he did with his animators

Re: Mickey Mouse

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/03 04:48PM did Walt D. really develop Mickey M.? or did he rip off others, the way he did with his animators? Jim Devine fwiw, wd apparently drew first mm (initially named mortimer) but he didn't draw it too well, one of his animators drew chracter that appeared in

Mickey Mouse

2003-11-18 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Mickey Mouse was born in Walt Disney's imagination early in 1928 on a train ride from New York to Los Angeles. Walt was returning with his wife from a business meeting at which his cartoon creation, Oswald the Rabbit, had been wrestled from him by his financial backers. Only 26 at the time

Mickey Mouse

2003-11-18 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
It's a true testament to Walt that he was able to create Mickey Mouse with such depth and personality that, on his 75th anniversary, Mickey continues to take us on adventures, make us laugh and inspire us, said Mark Eisner, chairman and chief executive of The Walt Disney Company. http

Mickey Mouse versus Eugene V. Debs

2001-05-08 Thread Louis Proyect
[The call letters EVD stand for Eugene Victor Debs, whom the station honored at its inception. It has been the voice of liberal/radical Jewry for many decades.] Friends - In NYC, there's a similar struggle unfolding at another independent radio station fighting a corporate takeover. WEVD, a