{"id":10811,"date":"2016-01-24T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10811"},"modified":"2016-01-22T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:30:21","slug":"tv-specials-from-the-tail-end-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10811","title":{"rendered":"TV Specials from the Tail End of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Wish For Wings That Work<\/em> (1991, Skip Jones)<\/strong><\/p>\n

First time I’ve watched this since its highly anticipated TV premiere. It’s like Rudolph but with Opus – he helps Santa with a problem and is rewarded with a fly-around by the ducks that used to laugh and call him names. Highlight is when Opus is injected into a scene from Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon<\/em> after an ad break.<\/p>\n

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Opus was Michael Bell (Duke in G.I. Joe<\/em>), neighborhood pig and ducks were Joe Alaskey (Plucky in Tiny Toons<\/em>, Bugs and Daffy in Looney Tunes: Back in Action<\/a><\/em>), and uncredited appearances by Robin Williams (botching a NZ accent) and Dustin Hoffman (goofing on Tootsie<\/em>). Director Skip Jones was a Don Bluth animator.<\/p>\n

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Breathed was not happy with the final result, and I can see his point. Still the only appearance of Bloom County<\/em> characters on TV – technically Outland<\/em> characters at this point – though Breathed’s Mars Need Moms<\/em> book was adapted as a crappy-looking flop feature film, and his story Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big<\/em> was adapted into a short the author called “an unmitigated technical disaster – unfinished and unwatchable.”<\/p>\n

Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno Live<\/em> (2015, Jody Shapiro)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A weird hour-long mash-up of scenes from Rossellini’s Green Porno<\/em> live tour, behind-the-scenes tour footage, coverage of the book tour, the original short films, and related stuff, like following a scientist to observe mating seals. “It is essential that what I say is scientifically correct. Otherwise I’m a nut – and who needs another nut?” I didn’t realize she’s done two other series called Seduce Me<\/em> and Mammas<\/em>, and an hourlong documentary called Animals Distract Me<\/em>. Jody Shapiro also shoots and produces Guy Maddin films.<\/p>\n

A Very Murray Christmas<\/em> (2015, Sofia Coppola)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In which a bunch of our favorite actors who cannot sing very well, and a handful of actual singers, congregate in Coppola’s underlit Lost In Translation<\/em> hotel to act sad, goof around and gradually cheer up. The band Phoenix was the best part, with Chris Rock’s off-time backing vocals a close second.<\/p>\n

Chris Isaak Christmas<\/em> (2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watched in hotel while getting ready for the family Christmas. A million times more festive than the Bill Murray one, with more upbeat music.<\/p>\n

Charlie Brooker’s 2015 Wipe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Funny look at a depressing year. Good bit on the media’s changing attitudes on the humanity of refugees, and Brooker finally got to address his spooky Black Mirror<\/a><\/em> PM pig-sex prediction on the air. Stanhope got cut for being too controversial… hope his segment turns up sometime.<\/p>\n

Shaun The Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas<\/em> (2015, Jay Grace)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like the movie<\/a>, but shorter, and with troublemaking nihilist llamas which are even worse than the pigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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