> > i suppose that depends on HOW many years. child stars
> > today would have to be old enough to be voice artists
> > ('Jim Hardiman, as played by Frankie Muniz!' o_O)
> I dunno, probably need someone who sounds more like Peewee
> Herman. :-P
I trust you haven't heard that Paul Rubens (the actor who played Peewee
Herman) had been recently arrested for child molesting. :-p
> From an article I read recently, the way they see main
> stream cinema relaxing their content restrictions and
> public acceptance, they are likely to be showing full
> penetration sexual acts by the end of the decade. I guess
> we'll have to wait and see (literally!).
Don't count on it. They've had that for many decades, but never in the
mainstream media. They don't even show vaginas nowadays. I doubt
there will be a big market for mainstream porn. Hell, these days there
is a backlash against sexual advertising, not because of moral outrage
but because there's been so damn much of it, people have stopped paying
attention to it! (From "The Economist" magazine.)
> I've made this analogy before, but it would be quite an
> achievement if an animated Skunkworks could get a following
> of similar size to Beavis and Butthead. Most people have
> heard of them, some people regularly tune in. Something to
> aim for? But not this week... >_<
Another unmentioned problem: cartoon series based on existing
characters in other media (newspaper strips etc.) tend to be quite
mediocre. And who knows if Jim Hardiman would like how said cartoons
would be done? Robert Crumb was quite upset with Ralph Bakshi's
animated cartoon of his character Fritz the Cat (and even sued
afterward,) and I can't imagine how the Skunk Sisters could ever be a
commerical success. The three of them have sex with each other, for
chrissakes! Do you think that even Adult Swim would dare put that sort
of thing on television? Personally, I see no moral difference between
homosexuality and incest, but that's society for you.
Long Tom.
Received on Wed Jul 20 2005 - 04:39:26 CDT