Peanuts movie notes

AAUGH Blog reader Steve pointed me toward an Entertainment Weekly article that indicated that the upcoming Peanuts movie will effectively have one foot in the modern era and one in tradition. The modern aspect is that the film will be released in 3-D; the traditional is that it will be voiced using kid actors,

A couple of other AAUGH Blog readers have voiced suspicions that I might be on the inside of the film project. No such thing, alas. i wouldn’t be surprised one way or the other if I eventually if I got involved in some film-related book project or somesuch, but I cannot imagine them having any need for me on the film itself.

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Random little catch-up items

So many little things to catch up on. So much going on… and my life is so full (my son is heading off to college this week.) What can I cover? While Dolores goes unnamed in theĀ A Summer Musical special, I am told that she is named in the Cantonese …

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Addendum to the The Wolf video

Shortly after I posted the video about the comic strip”The Wolf” which suggested ways in which it set the path for “Peanuts”, my pal and co-writer, Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark, pointed out something I had missed — while “Willie” had offered strips run in a two-tier format before …

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Unquote alone

The warning signs about the new book Rediscovering the True Meaning of Christmas with A Charlie Brown Christmas”: Celebrating Christmas with a Charlie Brown Touch starts with the title, and its curious use of a single double-quotation mark. That’s part of the name every time it’s listed, whether on the …