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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Anyone else remember Jem and the Holograms from the 80's?



Jem and the Holograms ran from 1985 to 1988. The show is about music company owner Jerrica Benton, her singer alter-ego Jem, her band the Holograms, and their adventures.
The series was a joint collaboration by Hasbro, Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions, the same team responsible for G.I. Joe and Transformers. The creator of the series was Christy Marx, who also had been a staff writer for the aforementioned programs. The animation was provided by the Japanese animation studio Toei Doga (now Toei Animation).







The talented writers that worked on this goes to show we all suck sometimes:
Hasbro hired advertising agency Griffin-Bacal, the founders of Sunbow Productions, to create the 65-episode animation series. Griffin-Bacal (Sunbow), as well as Marvel Productions, had previously created the successful G.I. Joe series for Hasbro. G.I. Joe writer Christy Marx was hired to create the series based on the line of dolls and the original concept, which consisted of the two girl bands, Synergy, the boyfriend Rio, and the Rockin' Roadster. Marx created the full character biographies and relationships, including the love triangle aspect between Rio and Jerrica Benton/Jem, Starlight Music and Starlight House, the Starlight Girls, the villain Eric Raymond and various secondary characters. Later, Marx was asked to develop new characters as they were introduced. Marx wrote 22 of the 65 shows. Other writers for the series included Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, Paul Dini, Buzz Dixon, Ellen Guon, Steve Mitchell, Michael Reaves, David Wise, and Marv Wolfman.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

THE GIANT CLAW (1959)



Scientist Mitch McAfee (Jeff Morrow) cannot convince anyone that a enormous bird, the size of the United Nations building in NYC, here from outer space, has arrived on Earth and is eating planes from the sky. Eventually the giant buzzard (The Claw) makes its presence more than adequately known, as it begins to attack people more openly. It can do this because of a never explained reason that this gooney puppet is surrounded by a force field, making all weapons useless against it. Mitch finds its nest and shoots holes in its colossal egg, enraging the puppet. The Claw, then flies South, and eats the United Nations building on its way and it just gets better. The monster is actually a giant buzzard with an anti-matter force field. This is my favorite white noise film; except when the Claw is screeching - I hate that bird.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Vanessa Hudgens - Old Navy Commercial (2005)

I was not fond of Vanessa Hudgens until I realized she was the star of my all-time favorite commercial. Watch this one with your favorite sock.