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Dick Tracy
Submitted by Courtney
From Wikipedia:
Dick Tracy is a 1990 pulp action film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. Warren Beatty produced, directed, and starred in the film, which features supporting roles from Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo. Dick Tracy depicts the detective’s love relationships with Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) and Tess Truehart (Headley), as well as his conflicts with crime boss Alphonse “Big Boy” Caprice (Pacino). Tracy also begins his upbringing of “The Kid” (Korsmo).
Development of the film started in the early 1980s with Tom Mankiewicz assigned to write the script. The project also went through directors Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Walter Hill and Richard Benjamin before the arrival of Beatty. Filming was entirely at Universal Studios, whereas Max Allan Collins was involved in heavy controversies with Disney concerning the novelization of the film, and the screenplay. Danny Elfman was hired to compose the film score, and the music in general spawned four separate soundtracks.
Remember growing up and on the Weekends your Dad would put on some of his favorite tunes from when he was young. So much of it we look back and detest, and others we still love to this day. No mater if you Father listened to music as diverse as Bob Dylan or Metallica it was still the music your father would put on to relax. My Dads favorite bands happend to be The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, and Wilco
The Master was a great TV show back in the 80’s starring Lee Van Cleef. Ninjas have always been cool but they were an especially big deal at that time. They did some pretty amazing stunts in the show. It also had staples of 80’s action shows like car chases, awkwardly funny comic relief, famous guest stars etc. Lee and the ninja stunt men were the stars of the show though. Lee’s intensity and cool voice made him perfect for the role. I watched that show every week. It even inspired me to try out martial arts training for myself. Too many movies and video games with ninjas in them wind up being too fanciful with all kinds of magic powers and weird monsters. The Master was a realistic show that was still exciting to watch.
The Merkur Scorpio, along with the Merkur XR4Ti, was developed from two of Ford’s European executive cars: the Ford Scorpio Mark I and the Ford Sierra, respectively. They were manufactured in Germany and sold in North America as captive imports.
The XR4Ti only came as a 2 door vehicle with liftgate, and the Scorpio only came as a 4 door with a lift gate. Unlike the popularity the European Fords enjoyed, both the Merkur Scorpio and the XR4Ti fell prey to several different issues that led to Merkur name being discontinued in North America.
Dr. Brain is a series of educational games made by Sierra On-Line in the 1990s. The objective of each game is solving a series of puzzles in order to proceed further into the game. The series was later picked up by Knowledge Adventure who turned it into a more action-oriented game.
The original two games were created by an in-house team at Sierra.[citation needed] After the second game was released, Sierra acquired another company, Bright Star Technology, known for its educational games. The series was turned over to a Bright Star team, explaining the change in direction from the second game to the third.[1]
Dr. Brain is an elderly absentminded professor. Dr. Brain was ‘reincarnated’ as Dr. Cranium in Quest for Glory IV (both Dr. Brain and Quest for Glory series are designed by Corey Cole, though Dr. Cranium mentions once that one of his descendants would get “his very own game”.).
Tommy Tricker & The Stamp Traveller was an awesome movie that was played on the Disney channel when I was younger. “It is a children’s film in which a young boy, Ralph, and his sister discover a magical ability to travel the world riding within postage stamps. Complicated by a series of rules, they are soon lost in such far-flung places as Australia and China.”
Recess was a show that I woke up every Saturday mornings to watch. There were those awful days when I only caught the last two minutes of a show and was quite grumpy afterwards. I remember watching the Gus episode “New Kid” and being able to sorta relate to it. It’s hard to describe how great this show was, just that as a kid, I always wished my school’s fifteen minute recess was as awesome as T.J. and the gang’s.
Mr. Boogedy is possibly the best Halloween movie of all time (the best for kids anyway). It’s well-loved and fondly remembered by so many people but, alas, it’s impossible to find a copy of it anywhere.
The Yum Yums were a really popular set of dolls when I was a little kid in the early 90’s. They each had a different scent such as jellybeans, cherry, lemon, and peppermint. There was also an accompanying movie that was released on video.
Nickelodeon Weinerville was an American television program on Nickelodeon that was produced in 1993 and 1994, aired in re-runs until 1997. The show was based around a giant puppet stage which was designed to look like a city, called Weinerville. The show was hosted by Marc Weiner.
Marc Weiner teamed up with the highest rated cable network, Nickelodeon, with the premiere of Nickelodeon Weinerville, a totally outrageous half hour variety show, uses classic elements of kids programming, which include puppeteering and interaction with a live studio audience, to entertain kids and their parents. Since its premiere, Weinerville has commanded the attention of such shows as Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America and The Early Show for being television’s first and only half-man/half-puppet variety show where kids are transformed into puppet citizens.
