Melton Barker and the Kidnappers Foil: From the late 1930s into the early 1970s, Dallas native, Melton Barker and his company, Melton Barker Juvenile Productions, traveled all over the country – from Texas and New Mexico to North Carolina and Indiana – filming local children acting, singing, and dancing in two-reel films that Barker titled The Kidnappers Foil.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Melton Barker and the Kidnappers Foil 7:59 PM
‘The Kidnappers Foil,’ a Local-Talent National Treasure - NYTimes.com 12:18 PM
‘The Kidnappers Foil,’ a Local-Talent National Treasure - NYTimes.com: Call it vanity, or proxy ambition, or love: Parents have always itched to see their kids’ real or imagined talents showcased. “I would argue things like ‘American Idol’ evoke this: ‘Hey, do you want to be on the silver screen? Hey, do you want to be a star?’ ” Ms. Frick said. “Barker was more direct in basically saying, ‘You guys are never going to make it, so you might as well be in my film.’ ”
It's like The Music Man with movies.
It's like The Music Man with movies.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Accidental Shifts in Meaning 4:00 PM
Accidental Shifts in Meaning: In a Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Bugs’s fumbling nemesis Elmer Fudd as a hunter on the rabbit’s trail, the carrot-chomping coney sardonically refers to Fudd as a nimrod — insulting him by derisively comparing him to a biblical personage renowned for his hunting skills. Apparently, later generations of Looney Tunes fans who hadn’t kept up with their Scripture picked up on Bugs’s attitude without understanding the ironic allusion, and the word acquired a new meaning, while its original sense faded into the background.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Dunning-Kruger effect - RationalWiki 11:19 AM
Dunning-Kruger effect - RationalWiki: If you have no doubts whatsoever about your brilliance, you could just be that damn good. On the other hand...
