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...Abbess in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a baby-faced actress with a Korean accent and a Betty Boop voice. Yet ponytailed and blue-jeaned Rebecca Seo, 9, brings to the role all the majesty of Elizabethan prose as she stands on a desk at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, declaiming, "The venom clamours of a jealous woman/ Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth...
Spike and Mike began experimenting with short animation in the '50s and '60s when they hosted small concerts and midnight rock and roll events that opened with animated shorts such as Betty Boop and Superman. Soon they realized that people were more interested in the cartoons than in the actual music, though this could be a comment on the quality of the music rather than that of the cartoons. In 1977 Spike and Mike premiered their first-ever animation festival, and since 1990 they have been running the Sick and Twisted Festival in the fall, along with the Classic Animation...
...After coughing up a few more tokens, we pooled the coins for go at the stuffed animal crane machine. The jaws of the crane remained limp, failing to clench the plush Betty Boop I had set my sights on, so I cursed and kicked the machine. Our evening had been full to the brim with Somerville-style amusement, and we unanimously agreed to call it a night. Finding a taxi took ample effort, but after trekking a block and scaling a snow bank, we came upon the comforting sight of yellow checkers...
After coughing up a few more tokens, we pooled the coins for go at the stuffed animal crane machine. The jaws of the crane remained limp, failing to clench the plush Betty Boop I had set my sights on, so I cursed and kicked the machine. Our evening had been full to the brim with Somerville-style amusement, and we unanimously agreed to call it a night. Finding a taxi took ample effort, but after trekking a block and scaling a snow bank, we came upon the comforting sight of yellow checkers...
DIED. MAE QUESTEL, 89, helium-toned actress who gave voice to the coyly sexy Betty Boop and the coarsely sexless Olive Oyl; in New York City. Over the years, Questel displayed vocal versatility as the voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost, Winky Dink and Swee'Pea. Though she was featured in over 1,900 films, Questel once complained that she could walk down a New York City street without being recognized. In one of her last film roles, she played a caricature of a different sort, Woody Allen's mother in the movie New York Stories...