Download or read book Who Censored Roger Rabbit written by Gary K. Wolf and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.
Download or read book Who P p plugged Roger Rabbit written by Gary K. Wolf and published by Villard. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Rabbit is sure that Clark Gable has not only stolen the role of Rhett Butler in the soon-to-be-shot Gone With the Wind, but he has also stolen the heart of Jessica. Investigating the affair, Eddie Valiant, Toon protector, finds himself up to his fedora in murder and Hollywood corruption. Who P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? will appeal to movie buffs, mystery fans, and Rabbit devotees alike.
Download or read book Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat written by Ross Anderson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even the Walt Disney Company, which had already won over thirty Academy Awards, could stop what appeared to be the end of an animation era. To revitalize popular interest in animation, Disney needed to reach outside its own studio and create the distinctive film that helped usher in a Disney Renaissance. That film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, though expensive and controversial, debuted in theaters to huge success at the box office in 1988. Unique in its conceit of cartoons living in the real world, Who Framed Roger Rabbit magically blended live action and animation, carrying with it a humor that still resonates with audiences. Upon the film’s release, Disney’s marketing program led the audience to believe that Who Framed Roger Rabbit was made solely by director Bob Zemeckis, director of animation Dick Williams, and the visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic, though many Disney animators contributed to the project. Author Ross Anderson interviewed over 140 artists to tell the story of how they created something truly magical. Anderson describes the ways in which the Roger Rabbit characters have been used in film shorts, commercials, and merchandising, and how they have remained a cultural touchstone today.
Download or read book Who Framed Roger Rabbit written by Justine Korman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falsely accused of a crime, a cartoon rabbit seeks the help of Detective Eddie Valiant.
Download or read book Who Framed Roger Rabbit written by Jeffrey Price and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Generation Removed written by Gary K Wolf and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States of the bleak and menacing near future, teenagers have taken over the running of the country.The all-powerful young have enacted laws that mandate retirement at the age of fifty five. From that point on, geriatrics, or Gerrys as they're called, lose all access to social services, health care, and medications. They undergo regular, mandatory physical examinations. Any elder found to be the slightest bit infirm undergoes euthanasia. Mobile death vans, the dreaded Euth Wagons, patrol the streets, picking up the elderly for testing, executing them on the spot if they're in less than perfect heath. The callous and murderous attitude of the young toward the elderly sets in motion a frightening revolution, an epic struggle, a literal battle of the ages. Young against old. The raw, unbridled energy and arbitrary whims of teenagers against the wisdom and thoughtfulness of experience.Civilization's deliverance from this hideous, age-centric brave new world rests on the shoulders of an idealistic fifty-one-year-old, Herschel Lichter. The youthful government drafted Herschel to infiltrate and destroy the ranks of the underground OPA, the Old People's Army.Herschel soon realizes that in order to save his country from complete ruin he must join forces with the elderly rebels he has been tasked to eliminate. He must help them fight and defeat a government of arrogant, impulsive youngsters who control an army of well armed, bloodthirsty juveniles.This is the action-packed, pulse pounding, all-too-possible dystopian story from Gary K. Wolf, the author of Killerbowl, the ultraviolent, riveting tale of football played as a bloodsport.Wolf gained great fame as the creator of Roger Rabbit and the author of the three Toontown-based novels.Gary K. Wolf grew up in the Midwestern farm town of Earlville, Illinois, where his father ran the pool hall and his mother worked as a cook in the school cafeteria.He earned a Bachelors Degree in Advertising and a Masters Degree in Communications from the University of Illinois. He served as an Air Force Captain with the 5th Air Commando Squadron in the Vietnam War, winning a Bronze Star and two Air medals. Wolf worked as a copywriter and creative director for a number of San Francisco and Boston advertising agencies.His novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? became a visual reality in Disney/Spielberg's one billion dollar grossing blockbuster film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The film won four Academy Awards and the Hugo Award for Wolf. Walt Disney Pictures purchased film rights to his sequel novel Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit? He also has a third Toontown novel, Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?Two of Wolf's science fiction novels, The Resurrectionist and Killerbowl, are currently being developed as major motion pictures. With his childhood friend from Earlville, Catholic Archbishop John J. Myers, Wolf co-wrote Space Vulture, an old-school, throwback, pulp science fiction novel, soon to become an animated TV series.This novel, A Generation Removed, is also in development as a feature film.He is a full-time writer living in Boston.www.garywolf.comwww.spacevulture.com
Download or read book Madame Doubtfire written by Anne Fine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and fro between their volatile mother, Miranda, and Daniel, their out-of-work actor father. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will supervise the children after school - and Daniel gets the job, disguised as Madame Doubtfire. This is a bittersweet, touching and extremely funny book.
Download or read book Animation Anecdotes written by Jim Korkis and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Cartoons Will Never Be the Same. The history of animation in America is full of colorful characters - and that includes the animators themselves! Jim Korkis shares hundreds of funny, odd, endearing stories about the major animation studios, including Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, and many more.
Download or read book Best Pick written by John Dorney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture winners, and the box-office contenders. In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky provide a captivating decade-by-decade exploration of the Oscars. For each decade, they examine the making of classic films, trends and innovations in cinema, behind-the-scenes scandals at the awards ceremony, and who won and why. Twenty films are reviewed in-depth, alongside ten detailed “making-of” accounts and capsule reviews of every single Best Picture winner in history. In addition, each Best Picture winner is carefully scrutinized to answer the ultimate question: “Did the Academy get it right?” Full of wonderful stories, cogent analysis, and fascinating insights, Best Pick is a witty and enthralling look at the people, politics, movies, and trends that have shaped our cinematic world.
Download or read book The Late Great Show written by Gary K. Wolf and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to the amazing fantasy world of Roger Rabbit creator Gary K. Wolf. This time, instead of Toontown, it's Los Olympus, California. New glitzy mountaintop home of the Greek Gods. The story kicks off when Tilly Hunter comes to ornithology expert Professor Jason with a strange request. She wants him to find her son's father. A talking swan. Jason knows his birds. Swans don't talk, nor do they seduce women. This was Godly work. Years ago, the Gods ruined Jason's life. Jason's ready for some payback. Jason takes the case. He finds himself caught up in a tempestuous and incestuous celestial soap opera. The star is Big Ben Bolt, formerly known as Zeus. Big Ben's' been there, done that, and wants to do it again. Big Ben's wife Hera always wins, no matter who suffers. Their daughter Demi, nasty-tempered Goddess of Love, won't take no for an answer. It's the murder, intrigue, and godly shenanigans of classic mythology tempered with a hefty dose of modern satire. Jason's ready and willing to die to fulfill his quest. The Gods are more than willing to let him. Can Jason bring the Gods to their knees before they bring him permanently to his grave?
Download or read book Mouse Tracks written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world there are grandparents, parents, and children who can still sing ditties by Tigger or Baloo the Bear or the Seven Dwarves. This staying power and global reach is in large part a testimony to the pizzazz of performers, songwriters, and other creative artists who worked with Walt Disney Records. Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records chronicles for the first time the fifty-year history of the Disney recording companies launched by Walt Disney and Roy Disney in the mid-1950s, when Disneyland Park, Davy Crockett, and the Mickey Mouse Club were taking the world by storm. The book provides a perspective on all-time Disney favorites and features anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographies of the artists who brought Disney magic to audio. Authors Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar go behind the scenes at the Walt Disney Studios and discover that in the early days Walt Disney and Roy Disney resisted going into the record business before the success of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" ignited the in-house label. Along the way, the book traces the recording adventures of such Disney favorites as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Cinderella, Bambi, Jiminy Cricket, Winnie the Pooh, and even Walt Disney himself. Mouse Tracks reveals the struggles, major successes, and occasional misfires. Included are impressions and details of teen-pop princesses Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills, the Mary Poppins phenomenon, a Disney-style "British Invasion," and a low period when sagging sales forced Walt Disney to suggest closing the division down. Complementing each chapter are brief performer biographies, reproductions of album covers and art, and facsimiles of related promotional material. Mouse Tracks is a collector's bonanza of information on this little-analyzed side of the Disney empire. Learn more about the book and the authors at www.mousetracksonline.com.
Download or read book Stolen Skies written by Tim Powers and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROGUE AGENTS SWEPT UP IN THE SEARCH FOR AN ANCIENT RELIC IN A UFO NOVEL AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT! Sebastian Vickery has learned something about UFOs that he shouldn’t have—and Naval Intelligence, desperate to silence him, orders his old partner, Agent Ingrid Castine, to trap him. But Castine risks career, liberty, and maybe even life, to warn Vickery—and now they’re both fugitives, on the run from both the U.S. government and agents of the Russian GRU Directorate, which has its own uses for the UFO intelligence. With the unlikely aid of a renegade Russian agent, a homeless Hispanic boy, and an eccentric old Flat-Earther, Vickery and Castine must find an ancient relic that spells banishment to the alien species, and then summon the things and use it against them—in a Samson-like confrontation that looks likely to kill them as well. Sweeping from the Giant Rock monolith in the Mojave Desert to a cultist temple in the Hollywood Hills, from a monstrous apparition in the Los Angeles River to a harrowing midnight visitation on a boat off Long Beach Harbor, Stolen Skies is an alien-encounter novel like no other. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Forced Perspectives: “One book I’ve been hugely excited about is Tim Powers’s latest, Forced Perspectives, set in the magical underbelly of modern-day Los Angeles. Powers may be the master of the secret history novel (and one of the originators of steampunk), but his recent work has really explored the history and magic of Tinseltown in a way no one else can.” —Lavie Tindhar, The Washington Post “. . . frenetic urban fantasy that playfully blends Egyptian mythology, alternate Los Angeles history, and modern technology. . . . A cast of unusual side characters . . . add color and complexity. This labyrinthine tale of the bizarre and fantastic will grip urban fantasy enthusiasts until the end.”—Publishers Weekly ". . . moves at jet speed, along unpredictable paths, and resolves in a fully gratifying melee involving almost every major character, living or dead.”—Locus Magazine Alternate Routes: “Powers continues his run of smashing expectations and then playing with the pieces in this entertaining urban fantasy. . . . This calculated, frenetic novel ends with hope for redemption born from chaos. Powers’ work is recommended for urban fantasy fans who enjoy more than a dash of the bizarre.”—Publishers Weekly “Alternate Routes is both a thrilling mash-up of science fiction, fantasy, and horror and a work of startling moral sophistication. The horror packs a wallop, and there’s as much in the way of suspense and tension as the reader can bear. Powers takes us on one hell of a ride.”—The Federalist "Tim Powers is always at the top of the list when folks ask about my favorite authors. His weaving mythology and legend into modern stories that revolve around secret histories of our most mundane landmarks never ever disappoints."—BoingBoing About Tim Powers: “Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale. . . . [He] promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all.”—Orson Scott Card “Other writers tell tales of magic in the twentieth century, but no one does it like Powers.”—The Orlando Sentinel “. . . immensely clever stuff. . . . Powers' prose is often vivid and arresting . . . All in all, Powers' unique voice in science fiction continues to grow stronger.”—Washington Post Book World “Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material into narrative form.”—The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction “On Stranger Tides . . . immediately hooks you and drags you along in sympathy with one central character’s appalling misfortunes on the Spanish Main, [and] escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded.”—David Langford “On Stranger Tides . . . was the inspiration for Monkey Island. If you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were -plagiarized- derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game. . . . [The book] had a lot of what made fantasy interesting . . .”—Legendary game designer Ron Gilbert “Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots, and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Powers’ work delivers] an intense and intimate sense of period or realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny . . . and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a merciless turning of supernatural wheels. . . . Powers’ descriptions . . . are breathtaking, sublimely precise . . . his status as one of fantasy's major stylists can no longer be in doubt.”—SF Site “Powers creates a mystical, magical otherworld superimposed on our own and takes us on a marvelous, guided tour of his vision.”—Science Fiction Chronicle “The fantasy novels of Tim Powers are nothing if not ambitious. . . . Meticulously researched and intellectually adventurous, his novels rarely fail to be strange and wholly original.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Who Censored Roger Rabbit written by Gary Wolf and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1987-04-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cinema of Robert Zemeckis written by Norman Kagan and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Zemeckis has risen to the forefront of American filmmaking with a string of successes: Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future I, II, & III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump, and Castaway. Herein, Norman Kagan unlocks the mind behind the making of these diverse and groundbreaking hits—appraising each work’s public and critical appeal while placing the films in the context of Zemeckis’s career.
Download or read book Cartoon Superstars written by John Cawley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moonwalker written by Michael Jackson and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1988 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Resurrectionist written by Gary K. Wolf and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the near future, travelers are electronically disassembled, transmitted through wires and reassembled at their destinations. It's totally safe. Except when it's not. Sometimes travelers go in and don't come out. Then it becomes a problem for Saul Lukas. The Resurrectionist. His job - find lost travelers and get them out. Before the wires disrupts them so badly they can never come out again. At least not in human form. This time, a famous Russian ballerina has disappeared inside the wires. Aided by his special maintenance crew able to travel the wires without losing physical abilities, Saul combs the line. He finds no trace of the missing girl. To improve the odds of locating her, Saul goes to The Bridge Authority, the monopoly which runs the wire network. He asks the Authority's president, Michelle Warren, to temporarily suspend all wire services. She flatly refuses. Why? What possible reason could the Bridge Authority have for deciding to condemn this innocent girl to death? As the ballerina's life slowly ticks away inside the wires, and Saul races to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, the answer gradually comes to light. Bring this girl out, and the whole nature of civilization could change drastically for the better....or the worse. Is one life worth such a risk? The final decision rests ultimately on Saul's unwilling shoulders. This is the third science fiction novel by famed Roger Rabbit creator and Hugo Award winner Gary K. Wolf.
