Yeah, this is from their most recent (this year!) album. Some of the other hoices of cover songs are better fits than the “Squirrel You’re Perfect” (or whatever it’s called) song from “50 Shades of Gray.”

While Otis did say that he never saw the whole miniseries put together, end-to-end, he almost certainly read the script, did the technical advisory thing, was involved with making sure Leon and the guys they cast looked and acted the part, etc. I can’t be certain how active of a producer he was on the production…

Clearly they’re going to cast stars in the other parts, but I think casting someone new is a good idea.

Watching and listening to Diana Ross in “The Wiz” is easily an exercise in torture for me. That role was not at all suited for her in any respect, and I thoroughly enjoy most of her other work.

They apparently want an unknown, and someone who can star in the show when it goes to Broadway next year.

Actually, Berry flat-out told her no: “you [Diana] are too old to play some damn Dorothy”. Diana got the part by going around Gordy to Rob Cohen, who was the producer on the project, and getting him to put together a package deal to shop to his bosses at Universal Pictures to finance and release “The Wiz” for Motown,…

Are you referring to the original Archie-affiliated Josie comic books, or the Hanna-Barbera cartoon adaptation that came later?

Because, compared to the latter, sure, but not the former.

They even made a joke about a character being there just because he was in the comics.

Nope, they just share cast members.

Robin Thicke's music actually used to be harmonious before he (or his people) decided that he needed to break out into pop. When he was making music for 40-year-old women for all those years, people actually seemed to like him.

I blame the haircut.

For what?

"Dumbo", "Alice in Wonderland", "Pocahontas", and a few second and third string Disney flicks are up in streaming for me, in HD. I guess I be done seen 'bout ev'rything 'til I see "Pink Elephants on Parade" in high-def.

Paramount didn't exactly buy Fleischer Studios - the Fleischers were deep in debt to Paramount by 1941, after taking out loans against future box office rentals to move the studio from New York to Miami and continue to pay the now larger studio's overhead in an attempt to compete with Disney to make features…

It wasn't quite Disney and WB who pushed the Fleischers out of the market - it was their distributor, Paramount Pictures. While the Fleischers never caught up to Disney during the sound era, Leon Schlesinger Productions (who made the cartoons for Warner Bros.) was just coming into its own success-wise, while Fleischer…