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    You WIll Need To Reset Your Password!!!

    We just moved hosts on this system, and this has caused a few updates. One is the way we encode and store the encoded passwords.

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    Other Side Of Maleficent

    I have been looking forward to Maleficent with equal amounts of anticipation and dread. On one hand, she is easily my favorite Disney villain, so cold and so pure, and I want desperately to see more of her and her back-story. On the other hand, she is easily my favorite Disney villain, and I would hate to see her parodied, taken lightly or ultimately destroyed in a film that does not understand this great character. The good news is that this film almost gets it right; but that is also the bad news.

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    BCDB Hits 150K Entries

    It took a while, but we are finally here! The Big Cartoon DataBase hit the milestone of 150,000 entries earlier today with the addition of the cartoon The Polish Language. This film was added to BCDB on May 9th, 2014 at 4:23 PM.

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    Warner Brings Back Animated Stone-Age Family

    Funnyman Will Ferrell and partner Adam McKay are working on bringing back everyone’s favorite stone-age family. The duo’s production company Gary Sanchez Productions is in development on a new Flintstones animated feature.

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    Disney To Feast In France

    The follow up to Disney’s 2013 Academy Award Winning short Paperman has been announced, and it will premiere at France’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Titled The Feast, the short looks to be based on the same stylized CG techniques used on last years Paperman, a more natural and hand-drawn look to computer animation.

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    Renegades of Animation: Pat Sullivan

    Pat Sullivan became famous worldwide for his creation of Felix the Cat. What most animation histories gloss over is Sullivan’s checkered past and longtime standing as a wildcat renegade. He didn’t follow the rules. And he made damn sure to fully protect his intellectual properties.

He'll Always Be Benson.

Discussion in 'Non-Animated Movies And TV' started by emeraldisle, Oct 24, 2017.

  1. emeraldisle

    emeraldisle Moderator Staff Member I SUPPORT BCDB!

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    Another great one has left us: Robert Guillaume , most famous as the title character of the classic sitcom "Benson," has died at age 89.

    Benson started out as a character on the satirical series "Soap" before getting his own spinoff. This lasted longer than the show that spawned it, running from 1979-1986. Mr. Guillaime also co-starred with the late Gary Coleman in a couple of made for TV movies.

    He also voiced Rafiki, the baboon who introduced Simba and Simba and Nala's daughter Kiara when they were just newborn cubs. This character was seen in both the original film and the sequels.

    RIP, Mr. Guilliaume.
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    So sad to hear...

    He did a great cameo on Saved by the Bell: The College Years.
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    I KNEW that name sounded familiar. Not Rafiki! He also narrated the HBO series "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child."
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    Odd little incidental: while Robert Guillaume voiced Rafiki for Disney's The Lion King, his foil from Benson, Rene Auberjonois, gave voice to Chef Louis from Disney's The Little Mermaid. The paths of life make some peculiar intersections.

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