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May 8, 2001

IF'N YOU HAVE the slightest hankerin' to hear tell about that there picture show what they named Song of the South, there's a right purty website what's harder to resist than a tarbaby in a briar patch and...I'm sorry.  I couldn't keep that dialect up any longer.  What I was trying to say was that I came across this terrific site — expertly designed and crammed full of info on the most elusive of the major Disney animated features.  The gent who put up the site, Christian Willis, couldn't have done a better job.  Go there, Br'er Websurfer.

OUR PAL Kevin Cunningham has relocated his extremely-funny website of political humor.  It's now found at www.politicalstrikes.com and is well worth the visit.  And if you're a fan of the late, great comic artist Doug Wildey, you'll be interested in Ken Quattro's article on him which is on-line at www.comicartville.com.  (My own obit on Doug is available on this site if you click right here.)

HERE'S ANOTHER SITE worth a visit but only if you have a fast Internet connection and a good monitor.  Go to www.skylinesoft.com and take an aerial tour of some city of the world.  It's one of those things that doesn't seem scientifically possible, even as you watch it.  You know...like Cher.

BECAUSE I GOT so many requests for it, I've posted my recent POV column on Johnny Hart (here's the link) and, in answer to no requests whatsoever, an old one about the razing of the Hacienda Hotel in Vegas.  (Here's that link)

REGARDING the just-settled Writers Guild negotiations: The press is carrying a number of articles that purport to reveal what happened behind-the-scenes.  If you compare them, you may note that they differ to the extent that they cannot all be true.  Based on what I've heard from folks actually in the bargaining sessions, none of these pieces give an accurate picture.  More likely, they represent the beliefs (or spin) of one or two sources.  In any case, what I've seen of the deal does not impress me much, though I'm not saying this was the time to go to war for more.  Everyone in town seems relatively happy today — even, reportedly, the waitresses at Art's Deli — so I guess that story's over.  The media can now turn its attention to the Screen Actors Guild negotiations (which absolutely no one believes will result in a strike) and the real important issues...like whether or not the death of Robert Blake's wife can successfully be turned into another O.J. trial.

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