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- Nckdictator
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Well, it did make history.
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Dec 12, 2014 00:02
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- Nckdictator
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Asia can be weird.
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Jan 27, 2015 19:43
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- Nckdictator
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Jun 23, 2015 20:00
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No so much a marketing disaster as much as "Would have been a marketing disaster if it had gotten made"
So, it's the late 1990s and someone at Warner Brothers thought this was a good idea.
http://comicsalliance.com/batman-musical-2/
quote:...Another super-musical that never got staged might just have been the best one ever…”Batman: The Musical,” a rock opera featuring songs by longtime Meat Loaf songwriter Jim Steinman and scriptwriter David Ive, and possibly going to be directed by Tim Burton — more on that bit later.Why do a musical about Batman? Well, you can’t argue that there’s isn’t something suitably operatic about Batman’s origin and methods. After all, Phantom of the Opera definitely proved that caped singers can bring in tons of both awards and cash. Spurred on by that and the success of the Broadway adaptations of “The Lion King” and “Beauty and Beast,” Warner Brothers started a division to develop new Broadway musicals based on their properties, starting with Batman. Warner Brothers apparently first approached screenwriter Larry Gelbart (best known for creating the TV version of “M*A*S*H*”) to write the musical, but he turned it down.
They next hired Jim Steinman to write the songs, who is best known for writing the Meat Loaf albums “Bat Out of Hell,” “Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell,” as well as Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and Air Supply’s “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All. For the book, they got playwright David Ives, who had done musical adaptations of “The Secret Garden” and David Copperfield’s magic show “Dreams and Nightmares.”
There are conflicting reports on whether Tim Burton was going to direct the show; several newsources back in 2002 reported that Steinman had said Burton was had signed on to direct, but Burton was quoted in 2008 as saying that when they asked him to direct it, he thought “‘Oh no — Batman On Ice!’” which isn’t the most enthusiastic response.
What was the plot going to be? The show’s book has never been released and all we have are demo versions of some of the songs and this quick summary from Jim Steinman’s blog:
"In CATWOMAN: Selena Kyle, aka Catwoman secretly, was A WITNESS to the murder of Bruce Wayne’s parents. A street urchin who happened to see it all, hidden away. The brutal murders haunt both Bruce and Selena. But both respond totally differently to their traumatic bruising. Bruce learns to vow REVENGE and becomes the avenging knight, BATMAN. But Selena is mostly mentally scarred by realizing how easily things that are precious can be taken from you. (Mrs. Wayne’s pearl necklace is ripped from her throat.) So Selena grows up, CRAVING precious jewels, & obessed with HOLDING ONTO THEM! (She never wears them outside, shes a plain mousy woman, but she hoards them in chests.) Only when she transforms into CATWOMAN are her love of danger & lust for precious jewels & “crime” what dominates her. Its the secret total possession of them that drives her, not the public display.
So both “witnesses” to the crime of the Wayne’s horrific murder by Joker has mutated two little “observers”: Bruce became Batman, Selena became CATWOMAN. Two little “lost” children have mutated thru their own complex reactions to a numbing loss, and in fact fall in love, with a dark, somewhat “kinky” S&M like undertow. This is new to the Batman world.
Catwoman sings her song alone in a jewelry store, an orgiastic revel in the glinting glittering jewels, piled up around her. She smashes glass cases and dances as erotically as Salome with the severed head of John the Baptist. I think you’ll recognize my best use of the “chorus” here”: “I NEED ALL THE LOVE I CAN GET AND I NEED ALL THE LOVE THAT I CANT GET TO(O)”
Then, at the end of BATMAN, under the fiery ruins of an elevated train & track, fighting ferociously with Joker, Catwoman & Batman unite. And in the battle, Catwoman is mortally wounded, “saving” Batman’s life heroically. In a climactic elegiac song, BATMAN, holding the dying Catwoman in his arms, sings “We’re Still The Children We Once Were”, along with the expiring Catwoman, AND with THEMSELVES as the little kids who saw the murder. It forms a hopefully thrilling, tragic quartet: Bruce as an orphan, Selena as a terrified urchin, BATMAN, as a heartshattered avenger, and CATWOMAN as a dying doomed hero. A spine tingling quartet. Batmans final act of gruesome revenge still awaits. But this is the operatic finale."
So, what happened to it? An official reason for its cancellation was never given, but many point to the failure of Steinman’s musical “Dance Of The Vampires,” an adaptation of Roman Polanski’s “The Fearless Vampire Killers” which was popular in Germany, but closed on Broadway after only 56 performances. (Incidentally, David Ives adapted and rewrote the script from the original German.)
After that, the show faded into obscurity, although parts of it surfaced in other projects. Meat Loaf released a version “In The Land Of The Pig, The Butcher Is King” on his album “Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose” (although, as Steinman points out on his blog, Meat Loaf repeatedly kept mistakenly singing the “Land Of The Pigs” on the track). On the same album is “Cry To Heaven,” which features part of “Angels Arise.” The band Dream Engine (created by Jim Steinman and Steven Rinkoff) has covered “Angels Arise” and “We’re Still the Children We Once Were” in live performances, but haven’t released a CD yet (you can hear samples on their Myspace page.) And reportedly, some of the songs may be reused in an upcoming “Bat Out Of Hell” musical, so at least one Bat might make it to the stage.
You can hear some of the songs here, a mixture of demos and fan made versions. (I unironically like them)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwIvtlbEmiKgVPuarwUl-oW8cSidNLIvn
Fansite with more info here.
http://www.freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm
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Jul 13, 2015 02:10
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- Nckdictator
- Sep 8, 2006
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Just..someone
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During both World Wars, cigarette companies made sure that packs of cigarettes were sent to troops fighting in the red cross care packages. Millions of young men gained the habit because war is long periods of boredom that is interrupted by moments of terror, and smoking passed the time. Old tobacco ads are crazy. If you've watched Mad Men, you know that Lucky Strike, once the most popular cigarette brand, was one of their major clients and a lot revolved around them in the early seasons. There's a scene where Don asks the head of the company about the process their made and he catches that at one point in the processes the tobacco is toasted, and Don says "That's the slogan!", even though that's how tobacco is refined for cigarettes by everyone. That was a real Lucky Strike slogan, just about 25 years earlier than Mad Men portrayed it as. It was meaningless but it worked.
The insane thing they did was try to make smoking healthy. There were tons of ads about how cigarettes give you energy, and help with digestion. They didn't get your wind or cause scratchy throat. Ladies worried about your weight? Smoke! It's better than having chocolate. These would be endorsed by doctors, but those doctors were paid off with money and smokes.
It's funny about Camel, with Joe Camel being the marketing gimmick that is best remembered. Camel came about because after WW1, Turkish tobacco, which is said to be the best in the world, was unpopular because Americans get really racist when you go to war with them, but the quality was still recognized by smokers. So they came up with Camel because it sounded Turkish but had American tobacco in it. The great line "I'd walk a mile for a Camel" was everywhere after one of their execs said it after he ran out of cigarettes on a golf course.
Celebs were used to promote all kinds of cigarette brands, and the majority of them died from diseases that are directly caused by smoking. Even after links between smoking and cancer and other diseases became widely know, people kept going because its addictive.
Some celebs that died from smoking includeing Humphry Bogard, Lucille Ball, Yul Brenner, Johnny Carson, Nat King Cole, Walt Disney, George Harrison, Robert Mitchem, basically every King of England since Victoria, and of course John Wayne. Though people today claim that because the Conqueror (a terrible Hughes movie about Genghis Khan) was shot in the desert near nuclear test sites, that it caused his cancer and not smoking, therefor smoking doesn't cause cancer. Though an actual study of everyone who worked on the film finds cancer rates among the cast and crew to be in the numbers that one would expect for adults of that time. Another celebrity that died from smoking was Arthur Godfrey. He was a radio personality, and also straight up hypeman for smoking. He would proudly say how he smoked up to 6 packs a day, and told his listeners "Smoke 'em by the carton!".
Smoking is the best example of capitalism I can think of; its addictive, so you spend money on it perpetually, but it kills you in the end.
Still creepy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxgaAn6IR9E
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Nov 7, 2015 20:20
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- Nckdictator
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Just..someone
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Tobacco and beer? Man, Bedrock was seedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEZGaLlLfcY
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Nov 9, 2015 04:12
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- Nckdictator
- Sep 8, 2006
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Just..someone
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Somehow I just discovered that there was an airline named after the MGM movie studio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ40w_VJtBU
They went out of business because it turns out the super rich would rather fly their own planes then even the most luxurious airline.
Too bad, I like their color scheme.
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May 10, 2017 17:30
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- Nckdictator
- Sep 8, 2006
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqS03ey1XZ0
"Who should we get to do our car commercial?"
"A controversial science fiction author?"
"Brilliant!"
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Jan 6, 2018 03:10
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- Nckdictator
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Great timing for Sony
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/03/06/sonys-bet-on-michael-jacksons-music-threatened-by-documentary.html
quote:Last year, Sony Music Entertainment entered a deal with Michael Jackson's estate for the rights to distribute the musician's recordings over the course of seven years. Now, in the wake of HBO's explosive documentary "Leaving Neverland," that investment could take a hit.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Sony paid $250 million for Jackson's music, allowing it to reap royalties from music streaming services and radio stations that play songs from the "Thriller" singer's catalog.
While figures from Spotify and Apple Music concerning Jackson's music in the wake of HBO's documentary won't be available until next week, in the past, the number of streams has increased for artists in the public spotlight, regardless of whether the news is good or bad
n January, after Lifetime aired its "Surviving R. Kelly" documentary series, the R&B singer's songs generated more than 4 million on-demand streams in the U.S., according to Billboard. This was a 116 percent increase in the number of streams that R. Kelly's songs had pulled in the days before the series aired.
"Leaving Neverland" aired on HBO in two parts on Sunday and Monday. The documentary detailed the accounts of two men who say Jackson abused them when they were children.
While online streams could get a bump, major radio networks could pull Jackson's songs from the air for the time being until listener sentiment about Jackson improves. So far, several radio stations in Canada and New Zealand have decided not to play Jackson's music unless it is part of a news story. In both cases, the networks that owned the stations cited a change in public opinion about Jackson for the removal.
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“We’re a company that sells paint for creating miniature dioramas, what should our next line of paint be?”
“Let’s do scenes from the Holocaust and Rwandan Genocide!”
“Fantastic, how should we advertise it?”
“Oh, I already wrote up the announcement”
quote: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐒𝐇 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘
𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘? 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝐫𝐝, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎
Four grams of Zyklon B, a pesticide made from cyanide largely used in prison camps of Auschwitz and Oranienburg, are enough to cause a dreadful death.
Jews, gypsies, gays and every individual who showed any hint of dissidence in front of the Aryan postulates were the right candidates for confinement and extermination just like a plague of insects and rodents.
During the Nazi barbarism years, all those people were considered sub-human beings who had to be erased from the world. They were not women, men or children any more. They were infectious rats who were putting in danger the German utopia and had to be treated as rats.
How do we deal with rats? Using poison, of course.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ilgtum/scale_modeling_when_a_hobby_company_tries_to_use/
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