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Scott Shaw!
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 Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject: Marty Murphy, RIP... |
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According to Dave Brain, "Marty Murphy has died. It was at his home sometime on Wednesday evening. There will be a memorial service on Monday evening, August 31 at Hollywood Forever Cemetery from 6 to 8 pm. There will be a funeral mass on Tuesday morning, Sept. 1, at St Brendan’s Church in the Larchmont area of L.A." Marty drew storyboards for UPA's MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, gag cartoons for PLAYBOY and designed WAIT 'TIL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME, HONG KONG PHOOEY, MUMBLY and more. Marty was a great cartoonist and a beloved member of LA's community of cartoonists.
He used to be one of the cartoonists who regularly met for lunch in Studio City. One lunch, I mentioned an old PLAYBOY gag cartoon of his that I thought was particularly funny; the next week, Marty showed up with the original and presented it to me. Amazing.
I'll really miss Marty.
Aloha,
Scott!
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Mike Kazaleh
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| This is very sad news. I'm a big fan of Marty's cartoons, and Marty himself was a wonderful guy. |
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| I am a huge Hong Kong Phooey fan. Great character with a great design. This is a great loss |
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Jeff O
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Thank you for letting us know, Scott. I am sorry for your loss. May Marty rest in peace. My prayers are with his family.
WAIT 'TIL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME and HONG KONG PHOOEY are among the shows I was most excited for each week that they aired in the early seventies. My mom can still get nostalgic about watching the prime-time WTYFGH with me. After all, they were the Boyles and we were the O'Boyles. Had a Wonder Bread sticker of Chet mowing the lawn that was on my closet door for a number of years as a kid.
And Hong Kong Phooey was so exciting because he was a brand-new superhero that I got to see from Day One. And that was a big thing for a first-grader. In second grade, I had the show's lunchbox. Years later, in college, there was a beautiful girl who remembered HKP as well as I did, and so we would often sing the show's theme song together before class would start. It was Penrific!
Thank you, Marty! |
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Bart
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WTYFGH was part of an answer of a great trivia question: Name an actor who starred in two spin-offs of LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE. The answer is Tom Bosley, who starred in both WTYFGH and HAPPY DAYS.
As far as HONG KONG FOOEY goes, anything with Scatman Crothers in it starts out with at least one redeeming quality. What's this I hear about a movie version?
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Jeff O
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| Bart wrote: | | As far as HONG KONG FOOEY goes, anything with Scatman Crothers in it starts out with at least one redeeming quality. What's this I hear about a movie version? |
The movie is supposed to be a combination of live-action and animation. The script is by (or being written by) David Goodman from FAMILY GUY. I haven't seen anything about casting yet, but the film is tentatively scheduled for early 2011.
Will our hero be CGI like Warners' SCOOBY-DOO was done, or would they be daring enough to keep Phooey in traditional animation like the characters in ROGER RABBIT or even LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION? I imagine he will be CGI, but I think it would be more interesting if he and Spot are in traditional animation (or even stop-motion), walking, driving, leaping, bumbling, and scampering to save the day through an otherwise live-action world.
I don't automatically cringe when I hear about another live-action revival of an old or classic cartoon. Given the chance and a nice paycheck, why, I might even make such a movie myself. (I enjoyed THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY & BULLWINKLE quite a bit for what it was. I especially bought into Rocket J. Squirrel's struggle to see if the hero he once was still dwelt within himself. And the scene where Rocky flies by the Twin Towers, Superman-like, the year before September 11th, wow....) But even though I don't cringe automatically about more of these movies, neither do I get my hopes up.
I certainly hope they can capture the unique contortions of Hong Kong Phooey's body in motion that would have originated with the pen of Marty Murphy. I hope Phooey will move sometimes fast and occasionally in slow-motion, but maybe more fluidly than a character in a MATRIX parody or CHARLIE'S ANGELS film. Maybe Jackie Chan could be hired to perform some comic martial arts moves and pratfalls which could be rotoscoped or performance-captured into Phooey. They could promote the movie by saying Phooey does all his own stunts.
I'll certainly miss Scatman's voice, though. 
I suppose it would be too much to ask to have a scene or two where Phooey is off at a Laff-A-Lympics competition so he can ask his Scooby-Doobies teammate Blue Falcon (played by Gary Owens in full costume, natch) to consult on a particularly troublesome case. (Did I say I never get my hopes up about these live-action revivals?) |
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