Late Late Night FDL: Pluto’s Christmas Tree
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 12th, 2010 5:45 am by HL
Late Late Night FDL: Pluto’s Christmas Tree
Pluto’s Christmas Tree. This Walt Disney cartoon was released on November 21, 1952. Grab your popcorn, put your feet up on the seatback in front of ya, and aim your spitballs at the ushers please. This is Late Late Night FireDogLake, where off topic is the topic … so dive in. What’s on your mind?
Pluto’s Christmas Tree. This Walt Disney cartoon was released on November 21, 1952.
Directed by Jack Hannah. Produced by Walt Disney. Story by Bill Berg and Milt Schaffer. Animation by Volus Jones, Bill Justice, George Kreisl, and Fred Moore. Layouts by Yale Gracey. Backgrounds by Thelma Witmer. Visual Effects animation by George Rowley. Voices (in alphabetical order) by Ruth Clifford (Minnie Mouse), Pinto Colvig (Pluto, Goofy), Dessie Flynn (Dale), James MacDonald (Mickey Mouse, Chip), and Clarence Nash (Donald Duck). Original music by Joseph Dubin.
Grab your popcorn, put your feet up on the seatback in front of ya, and aim your spitballs at the ushers please. This is Late Late Night FireDogLake, where off topic is the topic … so dive in. What’s on your mind?
Sunday Talking Heads: December 12, 2010
Baby, it’s cold outside. Watertiger and Athenae will be Virtually Speaking this evening, tune in for some progressive talk. David Axelrod fills in for Timothy Geithner, who is recovering from a kidney stone “incident.” and there’s more…
Baby, it’s cold outside. Watertiger and Athenae will be Virtually Speaking this evening, tune in for some progressive talk. David Axelrod fills in for Timothy Geithner, who is recovering from a kidney stone “incident.” And there’s more…
ABC’s This Week: Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod. The Middle East with the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, and Israeli opposition leader and former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni. Roundtable: George Will, Cokie Roberts, Matthew Dowd, Paul Krugman.
CBS’ Face The Nation: Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod. Howard Dean and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).
Chris Matthews: Andrea Mitchell, Michael Duffy, Helene Cooper, Andrew Sullivan. Topics: Did Barack Obama Get Back on the Right Track This Week? Top Ten Political Gaffes of the Year.
CNN’s State of the Union: Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod. Then Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), two against the president’s compromise. Followed by Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL) who will vote for it. Foreign Affairs with Dennis Blair, former Director of National Intelligence.
Fareed Zakaria – GPS: The Bush tax cut bill. Israel’s Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak. Christie Todd Whitman, and more.
Fox News Sunday: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Incoming Chair, Budget Committee and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) Incoming Ranking Member, Budget Committee. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on his new book and the current state of the Supreme Court. Roundtable: Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson, FNC Digital Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt, Juan Williams. Power Player: Ann Hand, patriotic jewelry designer.
NBC’s Meet The Press: Chair of the WH Council of Economic Advisers, Austan Goolsbee. NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Roundtable: Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Harold Ford Jr., Paul Gigot, Savannah Guthrie.
Newsmakers: Senate Armed Services Cmte. Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) speaks out against Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and 41 other GOP senators for their decision to block debate on any legislation other than tax cuts. The stand has caused a delay in taking up the Defense Authorization bill; if it continues then it will be the first time in four decades the Senate has failed to pass the legislation, according to Sen. Levin.
Q & A: Matthew Parris, columnist for The Times of London. He has also written for The Spectator magazine. While in his 20’s, he was parliamentary secretary for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Religions & Ethics: Haiti Unrest. Islamic School. Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin. An Unconventional History of Human Rights.
60 Minutes: The Next Speaker – Rep. John Boehner will become the speaker of the House next month, but few know this Ohio Republican beyond his life in Washington. Lesley Stahl profiles the man whose new role will place him at the top of the Republican Party and third in line for the presidency. Brazil – As the U.S. and most of the world’s countries limp along after the crippling recession, Brazil is off and running with jobs, industry, and resources. The economic juggernaut is poised to become the fifth largest economy in the world. Jerry Jones – A disappointed Cowboys owner, GM Jerry Jones says even his friend, the late George Steinbrenner, would fire him for the poor performance of his Dallas football team that many predicted would go to the Super Bowl.
To The Contrary: Topics: Executive Producer of “Precious,” Lisa Cortes discusses the challenges facing women in the film industry. Panelists: Former EEOC Chair Cari Dominguez; Former Clinton Advisor Patricia Sosa; Writer/Blogger Danielle Belton; and 1 more TBA. Web extra: Unhealthy Women – Overall American women aren’t in the habit of taking good care of their bodies.
Univision’s Al Punto: Gaby Pacheco and Lucina Martinez, Activists in Favor of the “Dream Act”; Otto Reich, Former United States Ambassador to Venezuela and Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Itzel Ortiz, National Coordinator of the “Paisano Program” in Mexico; and Julio Ligorría, Political Consultant.
Virtually Speaking: Watertiger and Athenae discuss the events of the week.
FDL Book Salon: Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement. “In Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs, Wimsatt weaves a first-person tour of America’s cultural and political movements from 1985–2010. It’s a story about love, growing up, a generation coming of age, and a vision for the movement young people will create in the new decade.” Chat with Billy Wimsatt about his new book. Hosted by Josh Bolotsky, 5pm ET.
FDL Movie Night Monday: “We’re talkin’ POT, Humboldt style, with the doc-in-production ONE GOOD YEAR and director Mikal Jakubal.”