Sixty nine years ago animator/producer/director Walter Lantz, the creator of Woody Woodpecker, produced a animated short film set in a fictional place called Lazytown, in America’s deep south, where the weather is hot and humid, and the denizens’ thought processes – and reaction times – are sluggish. Everything seems to happen in slow motion – until, that is, a stylish, lighter-skinned woman from the north shows up to liven things up. Centered around an eponymous song by The Andrews Sisters, here’s the 1941 Universal release Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat.
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The late Jacques Tati was a French actor and film director most famous for a series of dialogue-less comedy films featuring a stoically put-upon character named Monsieur Hulot, who was played by Tati himself. In tonight’s amusement, from his 1953 film Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday), Hulot and a herd of his fellow travelers cluster together in a train station listening for arrival and departure information via the public address system.
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A lot of veteran teachers suggest that the children of immigrants, particularly those from from Asia, tend to be more disciplined and less distracted than other students who are often more interested in partying and video games than the pursuit of scholastic excellence. American songwriter Randy Newman proposes a solution to this lack of discipline: non-immigrant students should simply purchase their very own Korean Parents.
They’ll be strict, but they’ll be fair.
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