A film of stop-motion animation, it is a feature-length version of a charming but unremarkable live-action short he made for Disney in 1984, about a kid who revives his beloved dead dog via lightning bolts. The House of Mouse found the end result so odd and macabre that it shelved plans to send it to […]
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Mad Monster Party?
Filmed in “Animagic” and with characters designed and a script by two Mad magazine giants — Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman, respectively — the movie got beloved horror icon Boris Karloff to voice mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein, who looks just like the actor. The doc has invited all of moviedom’s monsters — y’know, Dracula, the […]
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Trap ease
Emily Dawson Credit: Mark Hancock For those seeking the high-flying skills of actual circus trapeze, learning is a little farther away. Trapeze Austin in Texas is the closest such school to Oklahoma City. OKC resident Kathy Dinh gave the school a try when a friend asked her one weekend. “I’d never done it before, and […]
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Movin’ on up
The members of Perpetual Motion bring their love of dance to the stage with Satori, an evening concert filled with modern and aerial dance works. While the Buddhist term “Satori” means enlightenment, the decade-old dance company aims to embody the idea with a conceptual show bearing two primary themes. “All the works presented explore […]