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I hope you've all seen a lot of old movies. :)
I really fear that I'll have to explain this one to someone, though my 23 year-old roommate knew the reference. if only vaguely. "Besides," he said, "the drawing is funny." I'm surprised it turned out so well, to tell the truth. I've drawn this one three times before and it never looked so good as this time. :)
- Joyce
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Jimmy Cagney is Laughing
White Heat(C), some say it was his best role but the criminal is a very much an anti-hero. A dark film.
And you end with Little Ceasar(C), your dispicable -- John says in his best Daffy Duck(C).
John quietly chuckling away in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
I try :)
Couldn't remember the name of the Cagney film, thanks. This is one of those where you have to wonder, where the heck did that idea come from? It came pretty much all at once as I put the pen to the board.
Inspiration or desperation, you decide. :)
- Joyce
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I'm still laughing!
Just the drawing with the word balloon was enough to crack me up. All you were missing was another bug with a grapefruit half in her face. :-)
If anyone needs to have this explained to them, they need more (classic american movie) culture. :-) Or, as Ezra Pound said, 'kulchur'.
Love,
Diane
Love,
Diane
Captive Caption
The sub-title and word balloon text vied with each other for position. Cagney's line being pithier won the spot in the picture. Refrigerator Theater as the title won out over Icebox Opera and other such variations.
Damn, but I missed a good one in not having the fruit be a piece of grapefruit. :) I kept asking myself, why an apple? And I kept answering, because I can draw apples. :)
- Joyce
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Grapefruit vs Apples
Draw your grapefruit sliced in half,
Though I suppose people could confuse it with a large orange or a wagon wheel. Add the spoon digging out a wedge, it can't miss -- this advice coming from a terrible drawer.
John in Wauwatosa
P,S. And in the words of the great Cagney - and also a film tittle -- "Never steal anything, small."
John in Wauwatosa
One you do with a pencil and one with a sword
Actually, I did that, sort of. Just haven't put it up yet. And my floor lamp just committed sudoku so I need to go buy a new one.
- Joyce
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
You wasteful youngsters!
Or is it wasteful American youngsters? *grin* ##
Don't buy a new lamp, Joyce. Repair the old one! The two adjustable lamps over my workbench are both 'rescue' jobs ... and they work.
Anyway, what do you mean about 'old' films? I think I saw that ... well, second time around lol
Geoff
## I jest, of course. British youngsters are just as bad. Perhaps this is all because our vacuum cleaner just let the smoke out and I have another repair job :o(
Inscrutable
I did manage to get it working again. Weirdest thing, apparently the tension of the coiled cord inside the base caused it to unscrew itself and it just fell over. That's something humans can't do--unscrew themselves. :)
I watched those old movies on the Saturday afternoon TV but I saw Cagney's "Never Steal Anything Small" in the theaters.I think it was his last filrm.
- Joyce
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Is Cagney dressed in Lacy?
He must be for this to appear on a TG site.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Puns and Word Play
Erin's and Amelia's puns are bad enough, please don't tempt me, Angela.
Arrrrggg!
John in Wauwatosa
P.S. Did you mean, "in Lacy?" or "as Lacy?"
John in Wauwatosa
Now with Grapefruit and Spoon!
I've updated the image of this cartoon to add a grapefruit half in memory of the scene (in Public Enemy) in which Cagney assaults Mae Clarke with a grapefruit. Frequently used in sendups, it's not actually that funny to watch in the original, it just sounds funny to describe. :) Cagney went over the top in this scene, he wasn't actually supposed to hit Clarke with the grapefruit.
- Joyce
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
100% Improved
The grapefruit makes the drawing, it was incomplete without it.
John still chuckling softly in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa