We've been on and offline a few times this morning for techy reasons. Things will all become stable here soon.
I'm in one of my periodic spells of not paying a whole lot of attention to the news so that's why I'm not writing about ISIS, Ebola, Ray Rice or the new iPhones. As a general rule of thumb, I'm opposed to killing people, hitting people or larger smartphones.
The Warner Archive Collection is bringing out a complete DVD set of Loopy DeLoop cartoons. As I wrote here, I'm a huge fan of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons produced in the studio's early days…with the exception of this series. Loopy's cartoons were done for theatrical exhibition and when I heard about them, I felt deprived. I loved the H-B cartoons on TV…and here they were doing a series that I couldn't see on Channel 11! When I finally did manage to lay eyes on a couple, I couldn't believe that the same folks making those great Yogi Bear and Quick Draw McGraw cartoons were responsible for these.
H-B did some very poor cartoons later on but those didn't have good writers and good animators and Daws Butler doing the lead voice. These did so they somehow bothered me more.
I should have mentioned that along with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum coming out on Blu-ray yesterday, so did The Great Race, which I think is a better movie. I wrote about that film here. You can order a copy here. Again, there do not seem to be any extras on the disc.
By the way: Over the years, a number of folks have written to me to complain that I was typing "Blu-Ray" instead of "Blu-ray." This never seemed significant enough for me to take the time to change it but a couple of recent messages convinced me. So I've changed it everywhere it has appeared on this site. I refuse though to, as many have demanded, remove the hyphen from "e-mail."