Classic Cartoons

Baked potato luncheon fundraiser for Kevin Eads, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Democrat Headquarters, 18 W. 8th St. -- Ice Cream Extravaganza, 11:45 a.m.-2 p.m., City Hall, ground floor lobby. Benefit for We Can Care food drive. -- Fish fry, 5-7:30 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 1225 Main St. -- All-you-can-eat chicken dinner, 5:15-7:15 p.m., Madison County Shrine Club, 2419 White St. -- "Schoolhouse Rock Live," 7 p.m., Anderson High School Auditorium. --  

With the end of the school year quickly approaching, Anderson High School Performing Arts students are springing into a favorite pastime. With the help of their director of six years, Tiffany Jackson, the group of 12 is putting on a musical, "Schoolhouse Rock Live!" The show is based on the 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught grammar, math, science and other subjects through songs such as "Do the Circulations" or "A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing."

These songs are pieces much of our audience are familiar with   -Dale Perkins

 

[Still softly] Yeah, I was about seven or eight. I played cricket too and a bit of football but when I went to university they clashed so I had to choose. I went for rugby because I was best at that.  

Schoolhouse Rocks Live Jr ., a musical based on the popular Saturday morning 1970s-era cartoon series that educated millions of kids like me, plays Saturday and Sunday at Lamb Productions Theater in Sioux City. After reading headlines like this one, "House may try to pass Senate health care bill without voting on it," I think it's obvious House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats need to watch the part of the show that explains how a bill becomes a law. The majority party intends to ...  

Entertainment. Davis and the Warner Premiere division will continue to report to Nelson. In her new role, Davis manages Warner Premiere, which develops and produces films such as "Another Cinderella Story" and "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins" (a co-production with Cartoon Network).  

3/18/10 11 AM PST Neil Patrick Harris revealed on his Twitter account that Azaria will not be animated and will be a live-action character. Original Story: The new CGI rendition of an animated classic has found the voice for its villain. The site also revealed that Jayma Mays ( Glee ) has signed on to play the live-action wife of Neil Patrick Harris' character, who is also pregnant.  

If watching John Cusack navigate through the apocalypse in 2012 is too much for you, perhaps you'll enjoy the latest Moviefone Mash . This video looks back on some classic Cusack scenes, specifically those in which the actor gets rained on. Certainly not the end of the world, but linked together the clips show us that he's pretty much synonymous with gloomy weather.  

It's Friday night, time to relax on the sofa with some munchies and an old flick. So you flip on Turner Classic Movies to find Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable trading punches among the burning oilfields of Texas. The movie is Boom Town , one of the most popular films of 1940.

When I was 6, I loved to watch Godzilla movies   -Laura Wagner

 

Next month, the Vidalia Onion Committee , a Georgia group that promotes the consumption of sweet onions, will roll out 6-foot cardboard cutouts of the ogre Shrek as a tie-in to the latest film in the series, "Shrek Forever After." In turn, the Georgia-based growers group hopes the green guy will turn children on to eating Vidalia onions. "We do like to market to younger audiences and teach them about our product," said Wendy Brannen , the committee's executive director .

We do like to market to younger audiences and teach them about our product   -Wendy Brannen

 

Michael Jordan became a basketball star at North Carolina. Now he'll try to turn around the state's money-losing NBA team by becoming the first ex-player to be a majority owner in the league. The NBA's Board of Governors on Wednesday unanimously approved Jordan's $275 million bid to buy the Charlotte Bobcats from Bob Johnson.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise   -Michael Jordan