John Tranter <[log in to unmask]>wrote:-
I realise this doesn't help much . . .
and to the contrary, John, your dingbats post
certainly helped me for one. Especially liked
the Greta Scaachi story, apposite as a play about the first
day of school starring Geoffrey Rush premiered
in Melbourne last night.
appreciatively
Hugh Tolhurst
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From: John Tranter <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 11:12 AM
Subject: dingbats
> Dingbat # 1
>
> HEATHCLIFF (aired in these formats)
> HEATHCLIFF AND DINGBAT
> aired: Oct. 4, 1980-Sept. 5, 1981
> episodes: 13?
> HEATHCLIFF AND MARMADUKE
> aired: Sept. 12, 1981-Sept. 18, 1982
> episodes: 13?
> networks: all previous 2 series originally on ABC,
> later on The Family Channel and Cartoon Network
> animated by: Ruby-Spears Enterprises
> distributed by: Warner Bros.
> owned by: McNaught Associates and Warner Bros.
> format: one Heathcliff cartoon, one Dingbat later
> Marmaduke cartoon, one Heathcliff cartoon and
> another Dingbat later Marmaduke cartoon.
>
> Dingbat # 2
>
> Actor Greta Scacchi can clearly remember her first taste of
> Australian schoolyard multiculturalism.
> As a 15-year-old, her part-English, part-Italian heritage was
> a cause for derision on her first day at school, her second
> day in the country.
> "These kids who were loud and brash would ask where I
> had come from," she said yesterday.
>
> "When I told them, they would say, `You're a Pommy
> dingbat, you can't get worse than that!"'
>
> Now, at 40, Scacchi, who is normally associated with film roles
> highlighting her sultry
> good looks, is playing the mother of a Sicilian teenager in the film
> Looking for Alibrandi,
> which premiered in Sydney last night and will be released in Melbourne
next
> week.
>
> Dingbat # 3
>
> The Dingbats is a small band started in 1995 by two to sixth graders named
> David Hughes and Eric Snyder in the little town of Beavercreek, Ohio. They
> would often sing silly songs together. So one day they decided to form a
> band. Then they realized they needed certain things to start a band. First
> it was decided Dave could easily just make up simple tunes on a guitar,
> without any lessons. Then they both wrote original songs and sang them.
> Then the name of the band was decided over the phone, when they were both
> watching the Cartoon Network, and a cartoon staring a talking animated bat
> named Dingbat was on.
>
> Dinmgbat # 4
>
> 1913 Krazy Kat having appeared in panels of the Dingbat Family, now gets
> her\his own strip.
>
> Dingbat # 5
>
> Roma Cannizzaro--in caricature
>
> The tiny symbol signifying the end of a magazine article is called a
> dingbat. (Texas Monthly uses a little state of Texas, D has a miniaturized
> version of its one-letter logo, and Playboy employs the famous bunny
head.)
> Though you would be hard-pressed to find an actual article in the
> plastic-surgery ad that posed as a magazine, the recently defunct
> Dallas/Fort Worth Life Style featured a pouty-lipped, pug-nosed cartoon
> rendering of its 40-something publisher's mug. This laughable display of
> airbrushed egotism will be missed by cynics and fluff-lovers alike.
>
> I realise this doesn't help much . . . the cartoon I remember was made
> inthe USA circa 1955.
>
> John Tranter
> from John Tranter
> Editor, Jacket magazine:
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/welcome.html
> Ancient history - the late sixties - at
> http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/index.html
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