Monday 30 November 2020

Norman Lear’s All In The Family: Where are they now?

The thing that made All In The Family great was wonderfully, socially conscious entertainment. No virtual signalling, just wonderful entertainment without many pitfalls. 

Archie Bunker’s mother Sarah Longstreet was a serial terrorist, who both knocked up and married his unlucky dad David for money. Said dad was also a mean bigot, even though his much colder hearted wife treated him much worse than others, which explained why he in turn neglected their also unlucky kids (a lot) until a few years before he passed away in regret. Fred Bunker became quite a pervert, but was nonetheless an amicable divorcee later on. Youngest brother Philip Bunker was a real computer nerd, and their much older sister Alma was a b movie actress. 

Joey Stivic became a commuting accountant with a wife, a daughter and a pet cat. 

When Good Times very happily ended in 1979 after a few years of relatively poor scripts and blandly executed episodes, the characters ultimately became different from what they were. 

Florida sadly had her fate coming from the start of her life; albeit one which remained unnoticed until after the show really ended. After the finale, she was bludgeoned into the void by her own, even more virulent, JW kin, themselves also responsible for abandoning her in the first place. Not only was that situation sick, it was also really questionable. 

The formerly (at times) irresponsible JJ got a formerly irresponsible ex hoodlum girlfriend, albeit one who’s only four years older than him, and also a nerd. Optimistically, they’d have been slowly and steadily showing the incredible queer hots for each other, all the way through marriage and having fraternal twins together. 

Thelma and her husband Keith have a nerdy son, who also has a son of her own with an anime fan wife whom he met at uni and whom he is married to. 

Michael Evans renounced his own militant angry young man status for quite a while, perhaps because he was witnessing his more militant former friends become way too drunk to control themselves properly, and that experience might have scarred him and his life quite a lot. He became a calmer but still firm political activist after the show ended, even as he’s been diagnosed with mental health issues as well. 





Saturday 28 November 2020

A look at the Kulafu mythos

The Kulafu Mythos is one of the most iconic Philippine comic franchises. 

The mythos has Kulafu, a Tarzan boy, as its eponymous titular character. 

Sunday 22 November 2020

Disney’s Tarzan: the cast

The casting candidates for a large portion of the cyberpunk Rough Draft-storyboarded and animated, Critical Role-voice acted and ERB Inc-coproduced, Disney Plus-webcasted Tarzan reboot 

The main 
Daniel Frogson as the main Tarzan 
Matt Cornett as Tantor 
Shelby Simmons as Torkina
Lara McDonnell as Liz Doyle (youth and adult) 
Sophie Simnett as Margaret Durham 
Hazel Doupe as Vera Parker 
Jade Jordan as Robin Doyle 
Chloe Coleman as 
Octavia Spencer as Carla 
Sunny Suljic as The Gorilla Tarzan (aka Peter Wrightson)
Pádraic Delaney as James Parker 
William Brent as Kago 
Paul Mescal as Roland Shiels  
Travis Willingham as Hieronymus Holt
Zeno Robinson as 
Yvette Nicole Brown as Lucille Link 
Shiloh Fernandez as Kublat 
Laura Bailey as Sarah Lyle Holt 

The recurring  
Kayla Maisonet as Naranee 
Nazneen Contractor as Kisha 
Ainsley Bailey as Miranda Kenton 
Lucas Neff as Thorag and Bruce Bayliss 
Brandon T. Jackson as Dungy 
Buddy Lewis as
Tony Revolori as Manu 
Nyah Marie Johnson as 
Valentina Gordon as 
Erica Ash as Jaqueline Rye
K.C. Collins as 
Emilia Fox as Gwendolyn Durham 
Mallory James Mahoney as 
Landon Liboiron as Derrick Carne 
Anders Holm as Torglat 
Aimee Carrero as 
Vella Lovell as Nicole Carne, Rosanna Miller, 
Isobelle Molloy as 
Noah Lomax as  
Cree Summer as Minnie Carne
Oliver Alexander as Manu (youth) and Cristopher Diaz 
Brock Brenner as Flynt (youth) 

The minor 
Eva Birthistle as 
Emmy DeOliveira as 
Micah Hauptman as Michael Hauser 
Danielle Galligan as Lisa Parker 
Kevin Michael Richardson as 
Jacob Batalon as Flynt 
Sarah Paulson as 
Kelly Hu as 
Tom Hopper as 
Benjamin Alves as Gorlak (aka Bruno Rosas) 
Michael Garza as Kago 
D.J. Hughley as Zugor 
Katt Williams as Matt 
Colin Morgan as 
Arica Himmel as Cheechak 
Jeremy Maguire as Tantor (youth) and Kroog 
Ace Rosas as 
Francesca Capaldi as Eleanor Gillis 
Meg Donnelly as Sheila Ross
Jillian Shea Spaeder as Sarah Lyle Holt 
Brayden Cross as Utor 
Christian Keyes as 
Lyriq Bent as 
Phil LaMarr as
Dawnn Lewis as 
Michael Evans Behling as 
T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh as 
Bella Samman as 

The guests
Honor Kneafsey as Baroness/Viscountess Azalea Waltham Maxwell 
Kate Walsh as Mary Jane Wrightson
Dylan Moran as Ray Parker 
Sharon Horgan as Ashley Brennan Parker 
Rainbow Sun Francks as Wesley Wrightson 
Ford Kiernan as Baron Frederick Waltham 
Shirley Henderson as Baroness Lana Newton Waltham 
Miles Butler Hughton as Viscount Herbert Maxwell 


Friday 20 November 2020

The Tarzan Weight Club

For Minority world Tarzan actors 

The ‘64-77 kg’ club 
70 kg: Michael T Weiss (in Disney’s The Legend of Tarzan) and Joe Lara (in Tarzan: the Epic Adventures) 
72 kg: Giles Panton 
73.9 kg: Casper Van Dien 
75 kg: Michael T. Weiss, Denny Miller, Jock Mahoney (last years) and Tony Goldwyn (in Disney’s Tarzan) 

The ‘78-98 kg’ club 
79 kg: Jock Mahoney (in most Tarzan films) 
79.8 kg: Lamont Johnson and Kellan Lutz (in Constantin’s Tarzan) 
80 kg: Tony Goldwyn 
81 kg: Travis Fimmel (in WB’s Tarzan) 
82 kg: Gordon Scott (in later years) and Christopher Lambert (in Greystoke) 
83 kg: Tony Goldwyn (in Scandal) and Michael Terry Weiss 
83.9 kg: Frank Merrill (in both Tarzan films) and Glenn Morris 
85 kg: Robert Ridgely 
85.7 kg: Travis Fimmel (currently) 
86 kg: Johnny Weissmuller, Elmo Lincoln (in most Tarzan films), Travis Fimmel (in World of Warcraft) and Lex Barker 
88 kg: Kellan Lutz, Christopher Lambert (currently) and Ron Ely 
90.7 kg: Herman Brix (aka Bruce Bennett) 
92 kg: Elmo Lincoln (in the first Tarzan film’s making) 
Barely 93 kg: Alexander Skarsgard 
97.5 kg: Gene Pollar and James Pierce (in his last years) 
98.8 kg: Gordon Scott (in his early years) 

The ‘99-119 kg’ Marvel Comics heavyweights club 
99.8 kg: Mike Henry and Jock Mahoney (in Tarzan the Magnificent’s making) 
102 kg: Alexander Skarsgard (in The Legend of Tarzan) 
103.4 kg: Steve Hawkes (in two Tarzan films)
104 kg: Elmo Lincoln (in his later years) 
108.7 kg: Miles O’Keeffe
117 kg: James Pierce (in his later years) 

Wednesday 18 November 2020

Disney’s Cyberpunk Tarzan: things to do!

There are a lot of objects in the Disney’s cyberpunk Tarzan reboot. 

Weapons 
Spear - A brown spear is the main Tarzan’s improvised weapon, as he made it from a sharp bladed stone, a bunch of strings, and an abandoned brown pole stick when he was about eight. 
Dagger - Tarzan has a brown dagger, which he made from a sharp bladed stone, a bunch of strings and a pole twig. 
Hunting Knife - A brown hunting knife is a weapon whom Roland inherited from his mum. 
Bowie Knife - One of main Tarzan’s friends, the Gorilla Tarzan, has a big steely Bowie knife, which he has inherited from his dead camper birth parents on the day he first visited their would have been holiday cabin.  
Bow - The main Tarzan made a brown bow in order to ensure that his newfound arrows needed a companion to catapult out of somewhere, whereas his friend Roland had to rescue them from a destructive weapons owner instead. 
Arrows - When he was a preteen, the main Tarzan found a bunch of arrows abandoned by a fleeing deceased hunter, which was a few weeks after he was bludgeoned to destruction by grass men. As a result, he had to clean them very carefully. When things seemed to get worse, he improvised a brown bow to ensure that the arrows have something to catapult out of somewhere.  
Grass Rope Swings - The Bankondi of the grass men are the main reason why there are a crapload of predominantly long grass rope swings tied into variable and varying tracts of dying old jungle trees. Roland and the main Tarzan have also made a ton of them in order to hang on them and swing through the canopy even when brachiating, tree surfing or vine climbing. 
Lasso - As most jungle lassos are made out of short-mid sized grass ropes, they are the most frequently shared of the main Tarzan’s improvised weapons. 
Blowtorch -
Sling - The main Tarzan made a sling when he was about seven years old, about five years before he found a bunch of arrows and improvised a bow for them. 

Thinks to see through and think about 
Binoculars - 

Things to wear 
Grass Nappy - Many of the Tarzans each wore a grass nappy in the first few years of their lives.
Loincloth - Loincloths are worn by the many Tarzans in the cyberpunk reboot. Some of them may wear them as skimpy outerwear in order to cover their really obvious briefs, others just have them as they are. 

Monday 16 November 2020

Disney’s Cyberpunk Tarzan: a cinematic walkthrough

Disney’s cyberpunk Tarzan reboot needs both a cinematic walkthrough and a bunch of galleries.

Here’s a gallery of Tarzans. 

The Gorilla Tarzan, inspired by John and Sal Buscema’s design portfolio, is raised by a pack of gorillas (albeit western lowland gorillas this time, since they’re increasingly better studied in the past ten years alone than within the past fifty) since he was a school child following his parents’ murder by poachers years after they plane crashed into the jungle. Terk is his adoptive sister, Flynt is his adoptive brother in law, and Mungo is his adoptive cousin. 

The main Tarzan, inspired by the version that many millennial and older Generation Zed fans know about, is raised by an old member of the skunk apes, dangerous primates known for their foul odour due to living in swamps. Given his really screwed up relationship with animals, he only has three regular human friends, Gorlak, Vera Jane Parker and Roland Shiels. 

Gorlak was found by chimps following his parents’ untimely death in the hands of loggers, but was raised afterwards by a loving, literate wild family in the jungle.





Saturday 14 November 2020

Kenya Boy Cast Members

Here are the cast members of the upcoming Kenya Boy multimedia project. 

The heroes (Japanese) 
Yuki Kaji as 
Jo Onodera as 
Seiru Onodera as 
Hiro Mizushima as 

The heroes (English) 
Neel Sethi as Joe Moriyama
Jordanne Jones as Kate O’Connell 
Maya Erskine as Molly Mizuki 
Griffin Gluck as 
Janice Kawaye as 
Ruairí O’Connor as Mara O’Connell 
Tala Ashe as Shohreh Baboli 
Trina Nakamura as 
Derek Assetto as Zega 
Doreen Kemunto as 
Avan Jogia as 
Melinda Shankar as 
Supinder Wraich as 
Landon Liboiron as 
Meagan Rath as 
Masumeh Makhija as Dana Baboli 
Daisuke Tsuji as Daisuke Murakami 
Chrishell Stause as
Glenda Braganza as 
Micah Solusod as 
Loreto Peralta as 
Travis Willingham as 
Laura Bailey as 
Riya Ramaswamy as 
Nazneen Contractor as 
Sheetal Sheth as 
Sujata Day as 
Michelle Rojas as 
Melanie Chandra as 

The villains (English) 
Dylan Moran as 
Sharon Horgan as 
Eva Allen as Lenora Van Halen 
Iliza Schlesinger as Galina Yelchin 
Maxey Whitehead as Irma Meyn Van Halen 

Sunday 8 November 2020

Disney's Cyberpunk Tarzan: growing up

The multimedia Disney's Cyberpunk Tarzan reboot project. 

Tarzan’s mother was marooned into the jungle along with her husband. Born in Bristol (seven years after his mum and her husband wed), the main Tarzan survived his parents’ murder by Skunk Apes in the jungle. 

Tarzan and Jane are a strong and fiery married couple. Mvumvumvum and Uwauwauwau are the Vili words which mean something wild really well. The latter was deep into her motherhood. Lungululubu is a Vili word which means that she breastfed her growing kids. 

Wednesday 4 November 2020

Tarzan: location candidates

Since there’s so much debate, which of the tropical African locations are some of the Tarzan novels most accurately set in? 

The least accurate locations seem to be central and northern Angola below Cabinda, which are often depicted in old Tarzan maps and not much else. 

The Northwest and Southwest parts of middle Cameroon are perhaps the only Cameroonian states controlled by the chiefdom-unaware Brits, which partly explains why there’s considerably more corruption in both of these states than in the rest of middle and southern Cameroon. There’s also southeast Nigeria, mainland Equatorial Guinea, southernmost Central African Republic and the rest of middle and southern Cameroon, as well as much of northern Republic of the Congo (excluding the small easternmost parts of both Sangha and Cuvette, plus the state of Likouala, which are all closer to much of both the CAR and the DRC, than to the rest of west central Africa as a whole) and northern Gabon. Despite not being the most accurate birthplaces and childhood homes of Tarzan, they do strongly serve as the beginner’s bases for some of the Weissmuller-Henry era films, some of Gold Key’s Tarzan comics, parts of WB’s two Tarzan tv shows and a part of its film Greystoke, plus the first volume of Christophe Bec’s Tarzan comic books and a very artsy comic book in the form of Dynamite’s second regular Tarzan comic, Lord of the Jungle. 

Likouala and the middle, north-central and west-central DRC rainforests are often depicted more frequently in Dell, Marvel and older Dynamite versions than in any other retelling, apart from some of Dell’s and DC’s Tarzan comics and a part of WB’s The Legend of Tarzan. Then came along the southwest Ugandan, western Rwandan, western Burundian, western Tanzanian, northeast-central and east-central DRC jungles and woodlands, the beginner’s bases for some of the silent films, some of the Weissmuller-Henry era films, some of Dell’s and Marvel’s Tarzan comics, parts of Filmation’s Tarzan Lord of the Jungle, the 3 Disney films, Disney’s The Legend of Tarzan tv show, Constantin Film’s Tarzan 3D, Netflix’s Tarzan and Jane web show and Andy Briggs’ trilogy of teen novels. 

Much of Gabon and central Republic of the Congo seem to be the next most accurate birthplaces and childhood homes of Tarzan. They are the beginner’s bases for some of the silent films, some of the Weissmuller-Henry era films, many of DC’s Tarzan comics, a few of Marvel’s Tarzan comics, parts of both CBS’s tv film Tarzan In Manhattan and TF1’s Tarzan tv show, parts of the Peter Rodgers Organisation’s Tarzan: The Epic Adventures tv show, and parts of both WB’s film Tarzan and The Lost City and its reboot The Legend of Tarzan. 

Well, the most accurate location turns out to be the Mayombe realm, encompassing southernmost Gabon, southern Republic of the Congo, Cabinda and westernmost DRC. They’re the beginner’s bases for some of Marvel’s Tarzan comics and many of Dark Horse’s Tarzan comics.