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Since my preteen years, I'm a great fan of everything vintage: cartoons, TV, films, literature, radio, music, comics, everything it's too impossible to tell it all.
I'm cartoonist, high school student, artist, pianist since childhood. I'm a "vintage teen gal" (well, my interests are something rare in people of my age). That's me.
My first vintage TV series I watched was Top Cat, and later in the 2020s I watched all the films of said cartoon. I love mostly the female Hanna-Barbera characters.
I've been heard many music from the Hanna-Barbera shows, even in Spotify, I created a public playlist with motifs of Hanna-Barbera music.
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An error has ocurred. Please try againThe Latino stars are: optimistic Rafael del Río, fancy Armando Coria, skittish prankster Edgar Wald, cathastrophic Víctor Mares, smarty Armando Ríos, loving and handsome Eduardo Arozamena Pasarón, beautiful Azucena Rodríguez, tip top Julio Lucena, Casanova man Carlos Becerril, shy Armando Gutiérrez, authoritarian but sweet Narciso Busquets, humouristic Jorge Arvizu, comical Víctor Alcocer, lovable dance-lover Santiago Gil, bossy Carlos David Ortigosa, struggler Magdalena Ruvalcaba, cunning Quintín Bulnes, adorable Eugenia Avendaño, and....dammit. There're too many people.
And the Hollywood stars are: Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Arnold Stang, Leo De Lyon, Allen Jenkins, Jean Vander Pyl, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Marvin Kaplan, John Stephenson, the Beatles, Peggy Ann Garner, and...dammit. There're too many people.
And even Elvis is here in this parody. This story is set in 1969 in the United States.
The story focuses around a ambitious proyect, "The Big Concert", the new project William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who call celebrity Orson Welles to hire the entire cast of the 1964 XEW radio concert and make a film adaptation of it, with Eduardo Arozamena, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley and Azucena Rodríguez as the four title protagonists. Hilarity ensues, as many different Mexican dubbing actors from the '60s travel throughout the United States to record the film, meeting a big crowd of celebrities. Suddenly, Eduardo Arozamena and Elvis Presley disappear, after a crime mafia kidnaps them while making crimes in the USA, like stealing Quintín Bulnes' golden ring and making everyone to be drunk. Eduardo Lugo, dressing up as Rip Taylor, the gang and the pals face these and other rare hilarious scenes to rescue Eduardo and Elvis, and to save Quintín's ring. That means a series of surreal events that end up being, in reality, the most hilarious fantasy of every film person.
It could open on July 5, 1920 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, where a family receives their newborn child with brown eyes, black hair and cupid-shaped lips saw the light for the first time. The parents of the Zambrano-Echeverría family named their baby Enrique Jesús, which meant, if we merged these names, "The Lord of the house and of salvation." With the passage of time, the little lord of the house, as we have said previously, became a handsome gentleman. But he got his artistic opportunity at the age of 23 in the cinema, something that would change his life forever and that led him to be part of the wonderful world of popular culture in the rest of it.
The year was 1943. A very young Enrique Zambrano, set foot on the art world with the right foot, when he filmed his first film, María Candelaria, later released in 1944. And the rest is history. His most famous film was the 1950s disaster horror classic The Black Scorpion (1957), in which he played Cayetano, a linesman killed by a truck.
Enrique's life was a life between artistic works and family life. Until his death, he was married to Mrs. Patricia Alpizar. As a result of this marriage, Enrique and Patricia founded a family. They became the proud and loving parents of four children: Patricia, Eugenia, Joaquín and Enrique Zambrano Alpizar. It was In the sixties, he ventured, in addition to being an actor and father, as a writer, producer and director. He was the creator of the Villalobos series, with two films: The Justice of the Villalobos (1961) and Here Come the Villalobos (1962). In this decade he also ventured into dubbing, as an actor, translator, adapter, and singer. Yes. He was the performer of many songs in his dubbing. But it was directing, translating and adapting where he dedicated himself the most. Of all the dubbing jobs he did, the one that made history for younger and older audiences, was directing the first two seasons of Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek". In this 1960s television classic, Enrique also did secondary and incidental voices. The rest for him was pure direction.
Between jobs and dubbing, Enrique's life continued normally, until in 1968, he was surprised by a worrying health problem: they found stones in his liver. So, he had to undergo surgery in a hospital in Mexico City, to prevent the pathology from advancing and consuming his body. According to testimonies by co-workers, Enrique was given a lot of anesthesia for his low-risk surgery. But unfortunately, the operation failed: Enrique ended up dying on November 22, 1968, at the age of 48, a victim of cardio respiratory arrest, due to medical negligence.
His death, surprising and unfair, caused tremendous anger among his colleagues and relatives, to such an extent that many members with whom Enrique worked got together with his family to organize a lawsuit against the hospital due to this terrible event in public health history. The tomb of Enrique Zambrano is located in the Garden Pantheon of Mexico City, in the Lot of the National Association of Actors (ANDA). But after Enrique's fall, caused by that mysterious being called Death, a star that lulled the heart of this loving gentleman, possessor of root eyes, began to shine there in the firmament....
"Rafael del Río, Edgar Wald, Armando Ríos, Armando Coria y Víctor Mares son considerados por sus compañeros como gente agradable. Pocos saben que en realidad les gusta juntarse y se la pasan metiéndose en humorísticas aventuras fuera del trabajo”. La serie, ambientada en la década de 1960, gira en torno a cinco hombres en su adultez joven: Rafael del Río, el alegre, aventurero, capaz de mezclar idiomas cuando canta; Armando Coria, el tímido y atrevido; Edgar Wald, el bromista pero algo asustadizo; Armando "Larry" Ríos, el tranquilo y consejero; y Víctor Mares, el pesimista y catastrófico. Estos muchachos trabajan juntos en los estudios de doblaje y en las áreas de la actuación, pero cuando se trata de pasarlo bien y estar juntos, tienen su propio grupo, el "Escuadrón de los Cinco". Mientras se van de aventuras, lidian con las responsabilidades de la adultez, como la paternidad, el trabajo, el salario, el cuidado familiar, las rutinas laborales, entre otras cosas, en una época donde transitan de la adolescencia a la adultez. Sus aventuras son anécdotas, escenas paranormales, de suspenso, terror, misterio, y también momentos ridículos, en su vida cotidiana.
"Rafael del Río, Edgar Wald, Armando Ríos, Armando Coria and Víctor Mares are considered by their colleagues as nice people. Few know that they actually like to get together and spend their time getting into humorous adventures outside of work."
The series, set in the 1960s, revolves around five men in their young adulthood: Rafael del Río, the cheerful, adventurous, capable of mixing languages when he sings; Armando Coria, the shy and daring; Edgar Wald, the prankster but somewhat skittish; Armando "Larry" Ríos, the leader, the calm and counselor; and Víctor Mares, the pessimistic and catastrophic one. These guys work together in the dubbing studios and in the acting areas, but when it comes to having fun and being together, they have their own group, the "Squad of Five". As they go on adventures, they deal with the responsibilities of adulthood, such as parenthood, work, salary, family care, work routines, among other things, in a time where they transition from adolescence to adulthood. Their adventures are anecdotes, paranormal scenes, suspense, terror, mystery, and also ridiculous moments, in their daily life.
In this parody to the Beatles movies (and with some plots to films like "Some Like It Hot", "American Graffiti", etc.), with surrealistic humour and starring the biggest cast in the world in the most absurd plot in movie history. The film follows a crowd of Latin American dubbing actors in Hollywood, filming a movie adaptation to a 1964 radio concert. Things go wrong when Eduardo Arozamena, one of the dubbing actors and the central protagonist, and Elvis Presley, his Hollywood co-star, suddenly disappear: they god kidnapped by a reckless gang of mobsters, leaded by the Great Kidnapper (Herschel Bernardi). It is task to the actors to face surrealist adventures in the United States to rescue their two partners.
The Latino stars are: optimistic Rafael del Río, fancy Armando Coria, skittish prankster Edgar Wald, cathastrophic Víctor Mares, smarty Armando Ríos, loving and handsome Eduardo Arozamena Pasarón, beautiful Azucena Rodríguez, tip top Julio Lucena, Casanova man Carlos Becerril, shy Armando Gutiérrez, authoritarian but sweet Narciso Busquets, humouristic Jorge Arvizu, comical Víctor Alcocer, lovable dance-lover Santiago Gil, bossy Carlos David Ortigosa, struggler Magdalena Ruvalcaba, cunning Quintín Bulnes, adorable Eugenia Avendaño, and....dammit. There're too many people.
And the Hollywood stars are: Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Arnold Stang, Leo De Lyon, Allen Jenkins, Jean Vander Pyl, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Marvin Kaplan, John Stephenson, the Beatles, Peggy Ann Garner, and...dammit. There're too many people.
And even Elvis is here in this parody. This story is set in 1969 in the United States.
The story focuses around a ambitious proyect, "The Big Concert", the new project William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who call celebrity Orson Welles to hire the entire cast of the 1964 XEW radio concert and make a film adaptation of it, with Eduardo Arozamena, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley and Azucena Rodríguez as the four title protagonists. Hilarity ensues, as many different Mexican dubbing actors from the '60s travel throughout the United States to record the film, meeting a big crowd of celebrities. Suddenly, Eduardo Arozamena and Elvis Presley disappear, after a crime mafia kidnaps them while making crimes in the USA, like stealing Quintín Bulnes' golden ring and making everyone to be drunk. Eduardo Lugo, dressing up as Rip Taylor, the gang and the pals face these and other rare hilarious scenes to rescue Eduardo and Elvis, and to save Quintín's ring. That means a series of surreal events that end up being, in reality, the most hilarious fantasy of every film person.
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Hollywood Steps Out (1941)
Funny and not funny: They're just having a bad time
Context:
I watched this cartoon with my father to understand it, as he and I are Looney Tunes fans.
For me, it's terrible that these caricatures of celebrities only took advantage of great and talented Hollywood actors to just mock off them. It's just a cartoon which has a stupid plot to laugh at celebrities, specially of Clark Gable, who felt offended with a scene and asked it would be cut off. The only thing I loved of this cartoon short is the music.
Plot:
It is the 1940s. In the Ciro's nightclub, a squad of Hollywood celebrities hang out on a night with cigars, tragic-comedy and a very absurd series of jokes, being Clark Gable (I just nickname him "Clarkie", it's sweetier than "Gabe" in my opinion) the subject of most of the plot. Awww, poor Clark. He felt bad at his representation in the ending scene, fearing that Warner Bros would ruin his career seriously.
What I loved:
- My favorite part is just the musical sequences. Seeing the actors and actresses dance and having a good time is something delightful to my ear, but seeing them being caricatured just for fun not.
- The voice acting. A 17-year-old teen actor, Kent Rogers, voicing mostly of the males! I watched the original 1960s Spanish dub and makes the cartoon more nice to hear to my ear.
- I love the scene when Henry Fonda's mom takes him away of the nightclub at the part with Sally Rand dancing. That scene is better than the actors annoying Sally Rand to see her nude. If Fonda's kids, Jane and Peter, were with him in that scene, mommy Fonda would punish Henry for showing an inappropiate scene to them!
What I disliked: The cartoon is just to make fun of people, something I disagree. I dislike how do the Warner staff mock off to Greta Garbo. She's just in a bad moment.
There are many scenes I found out so dumb, such as:
- Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan in a nightclub setting, it's so stupid!
- I can't understand why in the scenes where Bing Crosby is in there's a little boy and his horse. He's underage and shouldn't be with the equine in a just-for-adults place!
- The part when Sally Rand (or Strand) dances and the actors want to see her naked in her performance. How good she was just with a barrel, to those men' disgust.
- Clark Gable disliked the ending scene. Too good the scene was shortened. I agree with his request.
Opinion: If this cartoon was adapted into a live action film, mostly of the actors would deny to portray themselves due to most of the scenes where they are having a horrible time. This is one of the many times where Warner Bros' cartoons caricatured for laughs to Hollywood characters who, if they watched the cartoon, would leave the theater room immediately.
The Story of Menstruation (1946)
A great material about health and education, and the first one that reveals that menstruation is not a taboo.
I love this cartoon and learned from it since I watched it for the first time. Since my preteen years I learned about puberty and adolescence thanks to the books I was given by my parents, both two doctors, and my school. It's moving that the girl as a baby, becomes a child and later grows up. It is not only about menstruation. It is about caring for yourself and others.
Being honest, this cartoon is not only aimed for girls, it is aimed for everyone to learn that periods aren't a taboo and won't be a taboo. Thanks, Walt and Gloria, because this cartoon you made, starred and created with respect and with real medical sources have been impacted other later productions that touch this theme without fear, as you two did.
Thanks.
What's New, Pussycat: Backstage at 'Cats' with Tyler Hanes (2016)
Funny Broadway blog with Tyler Hanes as Rum Tum Tugger
Loved it since I was a newbie with Cats the Musical. Oh, Tyler Hanes is so good as Tug. I love all the other actors, too.
The episodes show that being an actor is not only being an actor. Laughed at the funny scenes (specially Munkustrap's LOL face, hehehe).
Thanks to Cats the Musical I love Tyler. Even Terry Mann's guest appeareance is wonderful (hey, remember the pat a cake game he did with Ty!)
The Black Scorpion (1957)
The best performance with Enrique Zambrano, despite being a so-so film. Too bad he got uncredited!!
Never was Enrique Zambrano Echeverría the cherry of the cake in films where he was on a species of central protagonist. He was given secondary or non-known roles in Golden Age of Film productions. I love this production, due to Enrique's performance as the liveman who was killed in a truck. Will his character in the film recover after that terrible episode of his career? There won't be answers. But after all, Enrique's stardom, for me, was due to this '50s film, which, despite of having a something rare plot, stills looking fresh.
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988)
The best Top Cat film ever!
A 1980s animated TV classic starring the coolest alley cats in California. A film about the gang befriending a teenage girl and her aunt.
It is a funny movie, with excellent messages and leading characters with whom you can empathize a lot
My favorite part will always be every scene with Amy, the message left by this story was that money doesn't matter, but your friends yes.
That is the story of the 1988 film, "Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats"
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988)
The best Top Cat film ever!
A 1980s animated TV classic starring the coolest alley cats in California. A film about the gang befriending a teenage girl and her aunt.
It is a funny movie, with excellent messages and leading characters with whom you can empathize a lot
My favorite part will always be every scene with Amy, the message left by this story was that money doesn't matter, but your friends yes.
That is the story of the 1988 film, "Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats"