They shunned the need for dialogue and relied on the unexpected beauty of physical violence and accompanied music to create the kind of hilarity that is rare in any age. Tom and Jerry was an all-time great in the animated industry. Later!ĮJ Lambert from Chicago, IL on May 19, 2013: The animation in those was positively Disney-esque. But I think the classic Tom and Jerry cartoons are the best ever. You're right about Loony Tunes - they've certainly produced some of the best cartoons ever. Kelley Marks (author) from Sacramento, California on May 20, 2013: It was a classic series worthy of the praise it gets. The 1975 Tom & Jerry not very good?! Not very good, my foot! It's unbelievably good better than you'd think a cartoon could be!ĮJ Lambert from Chicago, IL on May 20, 2013: I believe Hannah and Barbera directed those for MGM. The best for me were the ones from the era with the duck.
I liked a few of the Gene versions, but not at all my preference. I believe Chuck jones' version is the one where Tom had the pointy, angry eyebrows. LaZeric Freeman from Hammond on January 15, 2014: The Tom and Jerry cartoons have a different look for every era, which is to be expected, I suppose, no matter how much we prefer those 'toons from the classic era, the 1940s or so. Kelley Marks (author) from Sacramento, California on January 16, 2014: I think he's way funnier & besides he's so much more original & Sylvester's so much more predictable & I think Tom's more fun considering he doesn't have anywhere near as much bad luck. The 1975 T&J is not insipid! It's very pleasant. “He was burying a dream deal over pride.I agree the 1975 T&J's not very good.
“I kept my cool and didn’t spaz out on him, but in my heart I knew more than ever that his relationships in Hollywood mattered more to him than his relationship with us,” he wrote. The deal never materialized, however, with Raekwon claiming that RZA scuttled the project in favor of what would become the Hulu series Wu-Tang: An American Saga. They were very interested, so we got the ball rolling, talking real numbers, with the goal of an even bigger release than Straight Outta Compton.” “He was super open to the idea, and after that meal, he had his production company executives reach out to me. “He talked about his production company and all the directors he thought might do a great job - and these were big names and people he’d worked with,” he wrote. Method Man would go on to interpolate the “dolla dolla bill y’all” part from Jimmy Spicer’s “Money,” a 1983 hip-hop song that the group had been listening to “since the rec room parties in the projects.” A classic was born.Įarlier this week, Rolling Stone published an excerpt from the book detailing a meeting between Raekwon, Q-Tip and Leonardo Dicaprio in which the actor and Wu-Tang fan expressed interest in producing a Wu-Tang biopic along the lines of Straight Outta Compton. When Meth heard the song, he realized it was the perfect opportunity to use the term because that’s what the song is about: trying to get some cream.” So my cousin brought that to our neighborhood and it stuck.
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“In the ’hood everyone is big on slang because it’s a code that isn’t meant for outsiders to understand. “‘Cream’ was his way of saying he was trying to get his spread on and do well,” Raekwon wrote.