Fifty-five years ago yesterday, Louis Armstrong gave an interview in which he spoke out publicly about Orval Faubus’ unsuccessful attempt to block the desegregation of the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. An uncensored version of that interview is one of the key scenes in Satchmo at the Waldorf, which opens on October 3 at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre.
Long Wharf has just posted a TV ad for Satchmo at the Waldorf on YouTube. I thought you might enjoy seeing it:
Archives for September 18, 2012
TT: Lookback
From 2003:
Every time I see a Pixar movie, I think of the dead end down which the Disney animators of the Thirties and Forties charged so heedlessly. Artist for artist, the Disney team packed a greater technical punch than any animation shop in history, but its product got duller and duller, while the Warner and MGM cartoons of the same period became more vivid and witty with every passing year. What made the difference? Disney’s creative team was fixated on the chimerical goal of realism, whereas Chuck Jones and Tex Avery knew that no matter how well you drew it, an animated cartoon was going to look like drawings of a talking animal….
Read the whole thing here.
TT: Almanac
“It does not matter how badly you paint, so long as you don’t paint badly like other people.”
George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man