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"THE BLACK DAHLIA"
AS SEEN IN:
"Who Is The Black Dahlia?" (alive)
'American Horror Story' (undead)
AS PLAYED BY:
Lucie Arnaz (living)
Mena Suvari (ghostly)
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time
From Wikipedia:
"The Black Dahlia" was a nickname given to Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 - January 15, 1947). She was an American woman and the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Short acquired the moniker posthumously by newspapers in the habit of nicknaming crimes they found particularly colorful. Short was found mutilated, her body sliced in half at the waist, on January 15, 1947, in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. Short's unsolved murder has been the source of widespread speculation, leading to many suspects, along with several books and film adaptations of the story.
Ghosts have the capability of altering their appearance in Toobworld. Therefore we can accept Mena Suvari's appearance as Elizabeth Short in the new TV series to be the same as that of Lucie Arnaz's portrayal in the TV movie.
As for the flashbacks in 'American Horror Story', those would be phantasmic recreations.
BCnU!
Immersed as deeply as I am in writing about Toobworld, I find it affecting me and how I view the world, to the point where even my dreams are about the TV Universe, sometimes even with end credits.
I hear a character's name on TV and I begin calculating the family tree, linking him to other TV characters with that name. I envision what happens to those walk-ons who enter a scene, and where did they come from in the first place?
And I won't get into elevators with pregnant women.
So it's nice to find out that I'm not the only one who goes through this.....
Yesterday, after we ran around taking care of errands and then, to get our minds off a failed attempt at recording the audio-play the previous evening, we stayed in to watch various things on television.
After watching documentaries about slasher movies, holocaust atrocities, serial murderers, Michael Powell’s ‘Peeping Tom’, and the eighth Harry Potter film, I turned to a later episode of ‘Soap’. One of the characters was carrying a roast or something from an oven and all the other characters were talking about it.
Anyhoo, I don’t remember it being funny at all, but the audience was laughing at all the appropriate cues. I kept waiting for the audience to get the joke that I was in on. I grew frustrated with the audience missing the great big and obvious punch-line.
Then I thought, “Oh well, the audience is just not understanding that the roast in the pan is actually a human torso.”
Oops! It wasn’t a human rib cage at all. It was just me. Goes to show you how twisted my mind was, by the end of the day.
- Pat Coleman
Rude House Studio
http://www.youtube.com/user/RudeHouseStudio
WHITNEY HOUSTON
AS SEEN ON:
'Saturday Night Live'
AS PLAYED BY:
Maya Rudolph
TV DIMENSION:
Skitlandia
From Wikipedia:
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 2 Emmy Awards, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010. Houston is also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 180 million albums and singles worldwide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston
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Tonight is the second season finale for HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire'!
Episode #24: “To the Lost”
Debut: SUNDAY, DEC. 11 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Written by Terence Winter; Directed by Tim Van Patten
Here are a few clips from the episode:
That's Sunday night - tonight! - on HBO at 9pm.....
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Thanks to the Crossovers Forum over in Facebook, here's a Children in Need telethon crossover music video from decades ago, predating that great video put together by Peter Kay a few years back....
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Alistair Sim's portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 movie production of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is my all-time favorite, to the point where I wish it had been a live-action production for television instead so that I might fully embrace it into the Toobworld Dynamic*.
However, back in 1971, at least the Tooniverse got the chance to have a performance by Sim in the role included in its dimension:
And that will serve as our Sunday offering of a Christmas TV episode.....
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* As it stands right now, I'm torn between the portrayal by George C. Scott and that of Patrick Stewart to be the official Toobworld Scrooge, even though both of them were far from the first. Both of them are fully realized versions of the original story (by not cutting major characters), but Patrick Stewart's version has the added benefit of an unofficial tie-in to the TV series 'Dallas'.......
I'm willing to hear arguments for either one or for a different production......
Zdenek Miler, the Czech animator who created the famous (everywhere but America, apparently) cartoons about Krtek the Mole, passed away on the 30th of November.
Here was Krtek's contribution to the Christmas cartoon collection......
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Also from that 'Community' Christmas episode:
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Alan Sepinwall mentioned this pilot in his review of the 'Glee'-inspired Christmas episode of 'Community' because of the involvement by Taran Killam in both. And although it does play havoc with the Toobworld Dynamic, it is pretty funny....
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ROBERT MUGABE
AS SEEN IN:
"Last Dictator Standing"
AS PLAYED BY:
Unknown
ALSO SEEN:
P.W. Botha
Saddam Hussein
Moammar Qaddafi
Idi Amin
AS PLAYED BY:
Also Unknown
From Wikipedia:
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born 21 February 1924) is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980. He served as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987.
Mugabe rose to prominence in the 1960s as the Secretary General of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) during the conflict against the white-minority rule government of Ian Smith. Mugabe was a political prisoner in Rhodesia for more than 10 years between 1964 and 1974. Upon release with Edgar Tekere, Mugabe left Rhodesia in 1975 to re-join the Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle (Rhodesian Bush War) from bases in Mozambique.
At the end of the war in 1979, Mugabe emerged as a hero in the minds of many Africans. He won the general elections of 1980, the second in which the majority of black Africans participated in large numbers (though the electoral system in Rhodesia had allowed black participation based on qualified franchise). Mugabe then became the first Prime Minister after calling for reconciliation between formerly warring parties, including white Rhodesians and rival political groups.
Since 2000, the Mugabe-led government embarked on a controversial fast-track land reform program intended to correct the inequitable land distribution created by colonial rule. The period has been marked by the deterioration of the Zimbabwean economic situation. Mugabe's policies have been condemned in some quarters at home and abroad, especially receiving harsh criticism from the British and American governments arguing they amount to an often violent land seizure. Eventually a wide range of sanctions was imposed by the US government and European Union against the person of Mugabe, individuals, private companies, parastatals and the government of Zimbabwe.
In 2008, his party suffered a tight defeat in national parliamentary elections, but after disputed presidential elections, Mugabe retained presidential power with the signing of a power-sharing deal with opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara of the MDC-T and MDC-M opposition party.
From the Christian Science Monitor:
by Scott Baldauf
Those were the days, Mr. Mugabe.
A South African satirical television commercial, for the Nando’s Chicken restaurants, has captured the South African imagination, depicting Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s difficulty in coming up with enough dictators to come to a Christmas Party this festive season.
Called “The Last Dictator Standing,” the commercial imagines Mugabe and Muammar Qaddafi having a watergun fight; Mao Zedong and Mugabe singing karaoke; Saddam Hussein and Mugabe making snow angels, in the sand, in their boxer shorts; Mugabe and Idi Amin mimicking that front-of-the Titanic “flying” scene aboard a tank; and most improbably of all, Mugabe pushing apartheid defender P.W. Botha in a swing.
Alas, whether by NATO bombs or natural causes, all are now dead. It’s going to be a lonely Christmas.
Though quite popular – the commercial went viral on youtube – Nando’s has since withdrawn the commercial, citing physical threats to staff and customers at the Nando’s fanchises inside Zimbabwe. Apparently, youth members of Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party had begun to protest outside Nando’s chain stores in Harare and elsewhere in the country.
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