HEEEERRRRE’S JOHNNY!! Our “Famous Movie Moment” is from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film masterpiece “The Shining”: Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence. READ MORE
In a rare break from tradition, this original sketch is still available in the Studio Store! FOOD FIGHT! John Belushi had a tragically short career in film (and life). He was only a headliner in five films, and two of them were major duds (“Continental Divide” and “Neighbors”).”1941″ was bizarre and his unhinged WWII fighter pilot didn’t have much screen time, but he made the most of that one. “The Blues Brothers” is certainly the high point of his brief cinematic career, but his turn as John “Bluto” Blutarsky in “Animal House” is classic. The “food fight” scene is on many “Top 100 Movie Scenes”… READ MORE
We’re back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series, this time revisiting 1994’s “Forrest Gump” with Tom Hanks on his park bench with his suitcase, box of chocolates, and the feather. Hanks has one of those faces that’s hard to “unlock”, partly because he’s such a great actor that his “presence” can change considerably role to role. That makes it hard to grab hold of an expression that reads as undeniably “him”. As Forrest Gump, he often had a slightly confused and somewhat vacant look on his face, which is what I was going for here. READ MORE
Not exactly a “famous movie moment” in the category of “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” or “Here’s looking at you, kid”, but it’s one I think of now and then… especially at certain events. “Revenge of the Nerds” was a goofy movie but it had some great characters. Donald Gibb played the dim-witted Alpha-Beta frat jock Fred “Ogre” Palowoski, who famously hated nerds. This moment from the movie plays in my head a lot during comic cons… I don’t know why. READ MORE
Giants of entertainment keep dropping like flies lately. Just when I thought we would be getting back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series another legend passes. Bob Newhart was a favorite in my family. I listened to his comedy albums as a kid, and I remember watching “The Bob Newhart Show” with my parents in the mid 70’s. The later show “Newhart” was a favorite of mine as a young adult in the mid to late 80s. Both those shows were great successes and long running, popular sitcoms. He also starred in a couple of short-lived, mostly forgotten shows, but those hardly diminished his legacy.… READ MORE
Shelley Duvall starred in two of my favorite movies, “The Shining” and “Popeye”, and her performances in both are big reasons why they are favorites of mine. So, I had to take another pause in my “Famous Movie Moments’ series to draw Ms. Duvall as “Olive Oil”. RIP Ms. Duvall. READ MORE
Our “Famous Movie Moment” this week is both a notorious and infamous one. It’s Sharon Stone in the “leg crossing” interrogation scene in “Basic Instinct”, where it’s obvious Ms. Stone is not wearing any underwear when she switches her crossed legs. It’s notorious as being the (allegedly) most paused moment in home video history. It’s infamous because Stone claims she was asked to remove her underwear because of some lighting issues, and she only did it with the assurance that the shot would be dark/shadowy enough that no nudity would be visible. Director Paul Verhoeven claims he told her exactly what the shot going to… READ MORE
It’s back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series with this sketch of Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya from “The Princess Bride” at the moment he finally comes face to face with the “six-fingered man”. “Hallo! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Trying to think up some of these iconic moments in film to do caricature sketches from I realized I did a lot of such moments in Desmond Devlin and my book of movies parodies, CLAPTRAP. This one included! Only Des wrote the parody of “Princess Bride” as a musical (i.e. “sing to the tune of…”. Here’s the page… READ MORE
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