Word: clampett
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...incarnated that pedagogue-demagogue, that piano-teacher torturer, Dr. Terwilliker in Geisel's fantastical live-action film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. And you shouldn't miss the elephant's first appearance in movies, in the Warners cartoon Horton Hatches the Egg directed by Bob Clampett. This wonderfully vigorous adaptation can be found on YouTube. (But don't let the kids peek at the next offering on the YouTube list: the non-Seuss, very Spitzer-sounding Horton Hires...
...Another World) and the '70s (Apocalypse Now) - that should probably be deleted from the anything-for-a-joke book. The movie also briefly and unnecessarily invokes the voices of Henry Kissinger and JFK. But ransacking pop culture is what cartoons do, and not just the gag-strewn Shrek movies. Clampett's Horton Hatches the Egg has a Katharine Hepburn bird, a Peter Lorre fish (that commits suicide!) and the Horace Heidt novelty hit "The Hut Sut Song." Even the more restrained Jones ended his Horton with a twist on a twist of John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever...
...dominated by what it calls "Property Buzz" shows: series about buying and selling homes, which now make up six of the channel's 10 highest-rated shows. Shows like Secrets That Sell!, Designed to Sell, Bought & Sold, Get It Sold--notice a pattern?--offer a guide to tapping, Jed Clampett--style, the gusher of wealth sitting under your property. "What will people do to sell?" asks the intro of Buy Me. "How far will buyers...
DIED. PAUL HENNING, 93, creator of the long-running 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (and its spin-off, Petticoat Junction); in Burbank, Calif. Henning, who composed the show's theme song, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, based the hit series on locals he encountered during his boyhood camping trips in the Ozarks...
...Fighting Tools" (Clampett, October 43) alerts soldiers that great weapons are useless without careful maintenance; SNAFU ends the cartoon as, literally, a horse's ass in a German Prison Kampf. "The Goldbrick" (Tashlin, September 43) has SNAFU urging his fellow GIs, "I'm a goldbrick, be like me, use your head / With a heart of pure gold and a backside of lead," before singing a hymn to the lazy life to the tune of "Tit Willow" from "The Mikado." It ends with a bucktoothed Jap (they always had prominent dentures and were always called Jap) threatening, "Here lies a goldbrick...