Welcome to 2001 and a trio of kids who are NOT following the Life Magazine Creed from a few days ago in famed animator Bill Plympton's Cartoon Network Christmas Special entitled '12 tiny Christmas tales' - Conjure Cinema Cinephiles are well aware of our fondness for Bill's work, as we've featured him extensively over the years, but we never showed this! Consider it our gift to you this year - it's our new favorite, with such characters as Victor the Tree, The Killer Snowflake and The Boy Who Loved Christmas. These tales were "inspired by Christmas cards that Plympton began drawing for his parents in 1964". (Wikipedia) STOP what you're doing and take a look at this hilarious holiday short NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93kmhTdIeuE
Switching gears entirely, we all know what the major tragic story of 2001 was: the 9/11 attacks. I have a good friend who was at Ground Zero when it happened, who thankfully escaped and survived, and her tale is harrowing. In an uncannily eerie bit of synchonicity, the first Spider-Man film with Tobey Maguire was going to premiere on May 3rd, 2002 and advance posters were up everywhere for it - at the time I had a massive vinyl banner of this image, with the wall crawler's 'Spidey Sense' going off as he looks at ... The Twin Towers. They were also featured prominently in the first teaser trailer for the film, which you can see below. Once 9/11 happened, all of the advance promo material for the film was recalled and scrapped, and a whole new campaign begun. That's a LONG introduction to our next link (via Buzzfeed) of '23 Wild and Newsworthy Events That Happened in 2001 But Were Forgotten Because Of 9/11':
https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/2001-events-that-9-11-made-us-forget
.., and, as promised, the original Spider-Man 2001 theatrical teaser trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPL7UWN_hcM
There's no good way to seque from that, so I'm not going to even try. I WILL link you in to this financial chestnut which I heard this morning driving in (from the UK Sun): Eye-watering sum Mariah Carey makes from her iconic Christmas song every year revealed
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/37490073/mariah-carey-christmas-song-earning-revealed/
All you have to do is READ the link, not listen to it! Back tomorrow with more.
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