News broke not too long ago that a new Space Jam movie was in the works, this time featuring Laker’s great LeBron James. A search online says they are shooting now, and the film is due to come out in 2021. All that animation is going to take some time for sure!
A couple of friends recently went to go work on the film, which make me wonder what it might be like for LeBron working with legendary actors such as Bugs Bunny. LeBron has acted a few times, but this might be his biggest role yet. Bugs might have to give him a few tips on how to be a movie star.
No word yet on the title of the movie. Hoping it’s not Space Jam 2: Electric Boogaloo.
This is a recently created drawing that will be sold by auction at a benefit on March 29 for the Epilepsy Foundation Washington! It’s always a treat to get to draw these fellas after having spent two television seasons with them a while back on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Had some doodle time recently, and this caricature came forth. Needs a good John Williams score to accompany it, don’t you think?
I’d like to think his movie about me will be better than my caricature of him.
I have been in the room with Mr. Spielberg twice over the years, but have never met the man. First time was on a soundstage for the filming of a pilot sit-com he was producing called Battery Park, and the second was when he came and spoke before a screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark. I’d love to work for him at some point – in particular, it would be fun to be a part of the reboot of Animaniacs.
As the morning mists began to lift across the dew-laden grass, a small glint of sun was visible on the peak of the helmet on the steely eyed warrior bunny prepared to do battle for dominance of the strawberry patch. It was going to be a sweet day of victory.
Last year over on my Instagram page, I posted a photo of a couple of shelves in my kitchen of a variety of novelty coffee mugs, and it got a pretty good response. In taking stock, I realized that there are at least 70 mugs spread all over my home.
This photo was taken in the halls of The Burbank Studios, formerly the headquarters of the NBC network. This was where Walt Disney filmed his introductions to “The Wonderful World of Color.”
This isn’t an intentional collection, mind you. We all get a few mugs here and there, but the collection really started growing back during my college days when I began receiving cartoon mugs as gifts from my parents. I was into cartoon household goods like cookie jars, vases, and kitchen utensils, so my mother kept an eye out for unusual mugs when she went shopping.
The Death Star’s break room where stormtroopers sip from narcissistic mugs and post jokes about the boss.
When I entered the animation business, mugs became gifts for being on crews and for working at studios. As I would travel, sometimes mugs were purchased at tourist attractions, too. The collection just sort of grew, not once ever thinking that I was a mug collector. Guess what? Unwittingly, I kind of became one!
A Snow White themed mug photographed at the Walt Disney Studio in Burbank, CA. What’s your poison?
So, realizing that there are so many mugs all over the place here, and since my Instagram followers thought they were neat, it was decided to post a photo of a different mug each Monday over on Instagram. I call it MUG MONDAY.
