Trigger, the faithful companion and famous horse of legendary 'singing cowboy' Roy Rogers was sold at the New York City auction house Christine's on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 for more than $266,000. RFD-TV in Omaha, Nebraska purchased the stuffed horse from the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Missouri. The museum is now closed and the items it housed were put up for auction. The Nebraska television network purchased the horse with plans to include it as part of a museum it hopes to open. They are looking to purchase more of Roy Rogers items at auction for the museum.
Trigger passed away in 1965 one day short of 31 years of age. Rogers, known as the "King of the Cowboys", couldn't bear to bury his friend and had the horse stuffed. Rogers originally purchased the horse for $2,500.
More information, photos of Trigger, Rogers' German Shepherd "Bullet", Rogers wife Dale Evans and more Rogers memorabilia is in this entertainment article.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Trigger Sells for More Than $260,000
Trigger, the faithful companion and famous horse of legendary 'singing cowboy' Roy Rogers was sold at the New York City auction house Christine's on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 for more than $266,000. RFD-TV in Omaha, Nebraska purchased the stuffed horse from the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Missouri. The museum is now closed and the items it housed were put up for auction. The Nebraska television network purchased the horse with plans to include it as part of a museum it hopes to open. They are looking to purchase more of Roy Rogers items at auction for the museum.
Trigger passed away in 1965 one day short of 31 years of age. Rogers, known as the "King of the Cowboys", couldn't bear to bury his friend and had the horse stuffed. Rogers originally purchased the horse for $2,500.
More information, photos of Trigger, Rogers' German Shepherd "Bullet", Rogers wife Dale Evans and more Rogers memorabilia is in this entertainment article.
Trigger passed away in 1965 one day short of 31 years of age. Rogers, known as the "King of the Cowboys", couldn't bear to bury his friend and had the horse stuffed. Rogers originally purchased the horse for $2,500.
More information, photos of Trigger, Rogers' German Shepherd "Bullet", Rogers wife Dale Evans and more Rogers memorabilia is in this entertainment article.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Entertainment: 5 Most Memorable Movie Creatures
Apparently inspired by the new Predators movie, Christy Lemire of the Associated Press has put together a list of what she feels are the top five movie creatures.
First on her list is Yoda from the Star Wars universe. Size doesn't matter and she finds him to be not only pretty darned cute but a formidable little guy because of his mastery of the force.
Secondly, she lists Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Lemire found Andy Serkis' portrayal of Gollum to be "fantastically fiendish" and I must agree with her. Gollum was such a mean little thing but, at times, I did feel sorry for him when he wasn't being nasty so he could get his "precious" back.
Queen from Aliens comes in third on her list. Queen also made an appearance in Alien vs. Predator in 2004. Now, I'll admit, I didn't really care for the Alien series of movies so I don't have much to say about Queen. Lemire makes note of Queen's protective motherly instinct, "as any mom would have".
Second to last on Lemire's list is the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Part human, part amphibian there is nothing handsome about this guy. He originally appeared on screen in 1954 before the high tech special effects we've all come to know and love ever came about. So, to modern viewers, he probably looks pretty lame. I love the old Universal monster movies. They're not heavy on gore which leaves something to the imagination. While the Creature from the Black Lagoon films weren't my favorite Universal monster films, I'm glad to see Creature making someones "most memorable" list.
Finally, Lemire's last choice for a most memorable move creature is E.T. She believes watching E.T. without crying is pretty much impossible. He is a relatively cute little guy and you do feel for him.
How do you think Ms. Lemire did on her list of memorable movie creatures? Are there any you feel she missed the boat on or that should have been on the list instead?
First on her list is Yoda from the Star Wars universe. Size doesn't matter and she finds him to be not only pretty darned cute but a formidable little guy because of his mastery of the force.
Secondly, she lists Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Lemire found Andy Serkis' portrayal of Gollum to be "fantastically fiendish" and I must agree with her. Gollum was such a mean little thing but, at times, I did feel sorry for him when he wasn't being nasty so he could get his "precious" back.
Queen from Aliens comes in third on her list. Queen also made an appearance in Alien vs. Predator in 2004. Now, I'll admit, I didn't really care for the Alien series of movies so I don't have much to say about Queen. Lemire makes note of Queen's protective motherly instinct, "as any mom would have".
Second to last on Lemire's list is the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Part human, part amphibian there is nothing handsome about this guy. He originally appeared on screen in 1954 before the high tech special effects we've all come to know and love ever came about. So, to modern viewers, he probably looks pretty lame. I love the old Universal monster movies. They're not heavy on gore which leaves something to the imagination. While the Creature from the Black Lagoon films weren't my favorite Universal monster films, I'm glad to see Creature making someones "most memorable" list.
Finally, Lemire's last choice for a most memorable move creature is E.T. She believes watching E.T. without crying is pretty much impossible. He is a relatively cute little guy and you do feel for him.
How do you think Ms. Lemire did on her list of memorable movie creatures? Are there any you feel she missed the boat on or that should have been on the list instead?
Entertainment: 5 Most Memorable Movie Creatures
Apparently inspired by the new Predators movie, Christy Lemire of the Associated Press has put together a list of what she feels are the top five movie creatures.
First on her list is Yoda from the Star Wars universe. Size doesn't matter and she finds him to be not only pretty darned cute but a formidable little guy because of his mastery of the force.
Secondly, she lists Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Lemire found Andy Serkis' portrayal of Gollum to be "fantastically fiendish" and I must agree with her. Gollum was such a mean little thing but, at times, I did feel sorry for him when he wasn't being nasty so he could get his "precious" back.
Queen from Aliens comes in third on her list. Queen also made an appearance in Alien vs. Predator in 2004. Now, I'll admit, I didn't really care for the Alien series of movies so I don't have much to say about Queen. Lemire makes note of Queen's protective motherly instinct, "as any mom would have".
Second to last on Lemire's list is the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Part human, part amphibian there is nothing handsome about this guy. He originally appeared on screen in 1954 before the high tech special effects we've all come to know and love ever came about. So, to modern viewers, he probably looks pretty lame. I love the old Universal monster movies. They're not heavy on gore which leaves something to the imagination. While the Creature from the Black Lagoon films weren't my favorite Universal monster films, I'm glad to see Creature making someones "most memorable" list.
Finally, Lemire's last choice for a most memorable move creature is E.T. She believes watching E.T. without crying is pretty much impossible. He is a relatively cute little guy and you do feel for him.
How do you think Ms. Lemire did on her list of memorable movie creatures? Are there any you feel she missed the boat on or that should have been on the list instead?
First on her list is Yoda from the Star Wars universe. Size doesn't matter and she finds him to be not only pretty darned cute but a formidable little guy because of his mastery of the force.
Secondly, she lists Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Lemire found Andy Serkis' portrayal of Gollum to be "fantastically fiendish" and I must agree with her. Gollum was such a mean little thing but, at times, I did feel sorry for him when he wasn't being nasty so he could get his "precious" back.
Queen from Aliens comes in third on her list. Queen also made an appearance in Alien vs. Predator in 2004. Now, I'll admit, I didn't really care for the Alien series of movies so I don't have much to say about Queen. Lemire makes note of Queen's protective motherly instinct, "as any mom would have".
Second to last on Lemire's list is the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Part human, part amphibian there is nothing handsome about this guy. He originally appeared on screen in 1954 before the high tech special effects we've all come to know and love ever came about. So, to modern viewers, he probably looks pretty lame. I love the old Universal monster movies. They're not heavy on gore which leaves something to the imagination. While the Creature from the Black Lagoon films weren't my favorite Universal monster films, I'm glad to see Creature making someones "most memorable" list.
Finally, Lemire's last choice for a most memorable move creature is E.T. She believes watching E.T. without crying is pretty much impossible. He is a relatively cute little guy and you do feel for him.
How do you think Ms. Lemire did on her list of memorable movie creatures? Are there any you feel she missed the boat on or that should have been on the list instead?
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Movies & Film: Top 7 Animatronic Movie Beasts
Throughout movie history certain films have required a bit more than what the average actor could give. When that occurred, it was time to call in the guys and gals who specialized in building complex, and sometimes, malfunctioning animatronic animals and beasts. After all, dinosaurs no longer roam the earth, no actor in their right mind would want to do scenes with a 3 ton Great White shark and, while gorillas can get pretty big, none have reached 40 feet in height.
The top seven animatronic movie beasts have been compiled by Charles Q. Choi in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the classic film Jaws which opened in theaters on June 20, 1975.
I think Charles Choi did a pretty good job on his list.
1. Jaws
Certainly, there isn't a single person who enjoys films of any kind that hasn't seen Jaws at least once. Some of us, have seen it dozens and dozens of times. I'll admit that Jaws is one of my favorite movies of all time. The cast is brilliant. Where else can you find three such dynamic actors and characters as Roy Scheider (Chief Brody), Robert Shaw (Quint) and Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) in one place? Add a 3,000 pound animatronic shark named "Bruce" to the mix and you've got a perfect movie. Bruce, affectionately named for Spielberg's lawyer, was well-known for his tendency to malfunction and present the cast and crew with a host of issues to work around. Thanks to Bruce's cantankerous behavior, Spielberg filmed a great deal of the movie from the shark's point of view, thus adding a brilliant element of suspense to his 'big fish story'. Even if it wasn't the 35th anniversary of the picture, no list of movie beasties could be complete with out Bruce. Jaws is a classic and when it's celebrating its 100th anniversary, it will still be just as suspenseful and psychologically terrifying as it was on June 20, 1975.
2. Jurassic Park
Another Steven Spielberg film makes the list. Between the aliens, gremlins, giant killer sharks and dinosaurs Spielberg is a guy that likes to make movies with creepy creatures. He's my kind of guy! Paleontologist Jack Horner supervised the production of the aniamatronic dinosaurs created for Jurassic Park by the Stan Winston Studios. The complex robotic creatures could be controlled remotely by puppeteers using "Waldos" to capture performances for the machines to mimic thus bringing the long-extinct dinosaurs to life on film.
3. Aliens
Legendary horror master H.R. Giger designed the alien from the first movie in the blockbuster series but Giger's creation wasn't animatronic, it was an actor in a suit. In the sequel, the animatronics took over. It was powered by cables and hydraulics with two puppeteers inside the device operating its arms with 16 others moving the rest of the creature.
4. The Terminator
James Cameron's original drawings for this film intended the Terminator to be stop motion animation. Jim Henson's puppet-based technology helped bring this baddie to life on screen.
5. Gremlins
They were tiny, they liked to cause trouble, they were cute and they came in all sorts of colors. They were the Gremlins. Chris Walas, also famous for the melting Nazi soldiers in Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, designed and brought the little creatures to life for this film. The animatronics used here was complex. The lead Gremlin, Stripe, required 64 controls to make him work.
6. King Kong
In 1976, the classic horror film from 1933 King Kong was remade. In this version, the giant ape stood 40 feet tall and weighed almost 13,000 pounds. Three-thousand, one-hundred feet of hydraulic hose and 4,500 feet of electrical wiring went into building the monster. Twenty technicians were required to operate it. However, despite all of this, the Carlo Rambaldi created beast often malfunctioned and appeared only in a few glimpses in the final cut of the film.
7. E.T.
Carlo Rambaldi created the lovable little alien from Steven Spielberg's much-loved film E.T.: The Extra Terresterrial. E.T. had an aluminum and steel skeleton with fiberglass, polyurethane and foam rubber for an exterior and was capable of 150 motions. To add authenticity, Steven Spielberg enlisted a craftsman who made glass eyes for the blind to create the human-like eyes.
You can read more about Charles Choi's list here, including photos and more details about the creatures and how they work.
The top seven animatronic movie beasts have been compiled by Charles Q. Choi in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the classic film Jaws which opened in theaters on June 20, 1975.
I think Charles Choi did a pretty good job on his list.
1. Jaws
Certainly, there isn't a single person who enjoys films of any kind that hasn't seen Jaws at least once. Some of us, have seen it dozens and dozens of times. I'll admit that Jaws is one of my favorite movies of all time. The cast is brilliant. Where else can you find three such dynamic actors and characters as Roy Scheider (Chief Brody), Robert Shaw (Quint) and Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) in one place? Add a 3,000 pound animatronic shark named "Bruce" to the mix and you've got a perfect movie. Bruce, affectionately named for Spielberg's lawyer, was well-known for his tendency to malfunction and present the cast and crew with a host of issues to work around. Thanks to Bruce's cantankerous behavior, Spielberg filmed a great deal of the movie from the shark's point of view, thus adding a brilliant element of suspense to his 'big fish story'. Even if it wasn't the 35th anniversary of the picture, no list of movie beasties could be complete with out Bruce. Jaws is a classic and when it's celebrating its 100th anniversary, it will still be just as suspenseful and psychologically terrifying as it was on June 20, 1975.
2. Jurassic Park
Another Steven Spielberg film makes the list. Between the aliens, gremlins, giant killer sharks and dinosaurs Spielberg is a guy that likes to make movies with creepy creatures. He's my kind of guy! Paleontologist Jack Horner supervised the production of the aniamatronic dinosaurs created for Jurassic Park by the Stan Winston Studios. The complex robotic creatures could be controlled remotely by puppeteers using "Waldos" to capture performances for the machines to mimic thus bringing the long-extinct dinosaurs to life on film.
3. Aliens
Legendary horror master H.R. Giger designed the alien from the first movie in the blockbuster series but Giger's creation wasn't animatronic, it was an actor in a suit. In the sequel, the animatronics took over. It was powered by cables and hydraulics with two puppeteers inside the device operating its arms with 16 others moving the rest of the creature.
4. The Terminator
James Cameron's original drawings for this film intended the Terminator to be stop motion animation. Jim Henson's puppet-based technology helped bring this baddie to life on screen.
5. Gremlins
They were tiny, they liked to cause trouble, they were cute and they came in all sorts of colors. They were the Gremlins. Chris Walas, also famous for the melting Nazi soldiers in Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, designed and brought the little creatures to life for this film. The animatronics used here was complex. The lead Gremlin, Stripe, required 64 controls to make him work.
6. King Kong
In 1976, the classic horror film from 1933 King Kong was remade. In this version, the giant ape stood 40 feet tall and weighed almost 13,000 pounds. Three-thousand, one-hundred feet of hydraulic hose and 4,500 feet of electrical wiring went into building the monster. Twenty technicians were required to operate it. However, despite all of this, the Carlo Rambaldi created beast often malfunctioned and appeared only in a few glimpses in the final cut of the film.
7. E.T.
Carlo Rambaldi created the lovable little alien from Steven Spielberg's much-loved film E.T.: The Extra Terresterrial. E.T. had an aluminum and steel skeleton with fiberglass, polyurethane and foam rubber for an exterior and was capable of 150 motions. To add authenticity, Steven Spielberg enlisted a craftsman who made glass eyes for the blind to create the human-like eyes.
You can read more about Charles Choi's list here, including photos and more details about the creatures and how they work.
Movies & Film: Top 7 Animatronic Movie Beasts
Throughout movie history certain films have required a bit more than what the average actor could give. When that occurred, it was time to call in the guys and gals who specialized in building complex, and sometimes, malfunctioning animatronic animals and beasts. After all, dinosaurs no longer roam the earth, no actor in their right mind would want to do scenes with a 3 ton Great White shark and, while gorillas can get pretty big, none have reached 40 feet in height.
The top seven animatronic movie beasts have been compiled by Charles Q. Choi in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the classic film Jaws which opened in theaters on June 20, 1975.
I think Charles Choi did a pretty good job on his list.
1. Jaws
Certainly, there isn't a single person who enjoys films of any kind that hasn't seen Jaws at least once. Some of us, have seen it dozens and dozens of times. I'll admit that Jaws is one of my favorite movies of all time. The cast is brilliant. Where else can you find three such dynamic actors and characters as Roy Scheider (Chief Brody), Robert Shaw (Quint) and Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) in one place? Add a 3,000 pound animatronic shark named "Bruce" to the mix and you've got a perfect movie. Bruce, affectionately named for Spielberg's lawyer, was well-known for his tendency to malfunction and present the cast and crew with a host of issues to work around. Thanks to Bruce's cantankerous behavior, Spielberg filmed a great deal of the movie from the shark's point of view, thus adding a brilliant element of suspense to his 'big fish story'. Even if it wasn't the 35th anniversary of the picture, no list of movie beasties could be complete with out Bruce. Jaws is a classic and when it's celebrating its 100th anniversary, it will still be just as suspenseful and psychologically terrifying as it was on June 20, 1975.
2. Jurassic Park
Another Steven Spielberg film makes the list. Between the aliens, gremlins, giant killer sharks and dinosaurs Spielberg is a guy that likes to make movies with creepy creatures. He's my kind of guy! Paleontologist Jack Horner supervised the production of the aniamatronic dinosaurs created for Jurassic Park by the Stan Winston Studios. The complex robotic creatures could be controlled remotely by puppeteers using "Waldos" to capture performances for the machines to mimic thus bringing the long-extinct dinosaurs to life on film.
3. Aliens
Legendary horror master H.R. Giger designed the alien from the first movie in the blockbuster series but Giger's creation wasn't animatronic, it was an actor in a suit. In the sequel, the animatronics took over. It was powered by cables and hydraulics with two puppeteers inside the device operating its arms with 16 others moving the rest of the creature.
4. The Terminator
James Cameron's original drawings for this film intended the Terminator to be stop motion animation. Jim Henson's puppet-based technology helped bring this baddie to life on screen.
5. Gremlins
They were tiny, they liked to cause trouble, they were cute and they came in all sorts of colors. They were the Gremlins. Chris Walas, also famous for the melting Nazi soldiers in Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, designed and brought the little creatures to life for this film. The animatronics used here was complex. The lead Gremlin, Stripe, required 64 controls to make him work.
6. King Kong
In 1976, the classic horror film from 1933 King Kong was remade. In this version, the giant ape stood 40 feet tall and weighed almost 13,000 pounds. Three-thousand, one-hundred feet of hydraulic hose and 4,500 feet of electrical wiring went into building the monster. Twenty technicians were required to operate it. However, despite all of this, the Carlo Rambaldi created beast often malfunctioned and appeared only in a few glimpses in the final cut of the film.
7. E.T.
Carlo Rambaldi created the lovable little alien from Steven Spielberg's much-loved film E.T.: The Extra Terresterrial. E.T. had an aluminum and steel skeleton with fiberglass, polyurethane and foam rubber for an exterior and was capable of 150 motions. To add authenticity, Steven Spielberg enlisted a craftsman who made glass eyes for the blind to create the human-like eyes.
You can read more about Charles Choi's list here, including photos and more details about the creatures and how they work.
The top seven animatronic movie beasts have been compiled by Charles Q. Choi in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the classic film Jaws which opened in theaters on June 20, 1975.
I think Charles Choi did a pretty good job on his list.
1. Jaws
Certainly, there isn't a single person who enjoys films of any kind that hasn't seen Jaws at least once. Some of us, have seen it dozens and dozens of times. I'll admit that Jaws is one of my favorite movies of all time. The cast is brilliant. Where else can you find three such dynamic actors and characters as Roy Scheider (Chief Brody), Robert Shaw (Quint) and Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) in one place? Add a 3,000 pound animatronic shark named "Bruce" to the mix and you've got a perfect movie. Bruce, affectionately named for Spielberg's lawyer, was well-known for his tendency to malfunction and present the cast and crew with a host of issues to work around. Thanks to Bruce's cantankerous behavior, Spielberg filmed a great deal of the movie from the shark's point of view, thus adding a brilliant element of suspense to his 'big fish story'. Even if it wasn't the 35th anniversary of the picture, no list of movie beasties could be complete with out Bruce. Jaws is a classic and when it's celebrating its 100th anniversary, it will still be just as suspenseful and psychologically terrifying as it was on June 20, 1975.
2. Jurassic Park
Another Steven Spielberg film makes the list. Between the aliens, gremlins, giant killer sharks and dinosaurs Spielberg is a guy that likes to make movies with creepy creatures. He's my kind of guy! Paleontologist Jack Horner supervised the production of the aniamatronic dinosaurs created for Jurassic Park by the Stan Winston Studios. The complex robotic creatures could be controlled remotely by puppeteers using "Waldos" to capture performances for the machines to mimic thus bringing the long-extinct dinosaurs to life on film.
3. Aliens
Legendary horror master H.R. Giger designed the alien from the first movie in the blockbuster series but Giger's creation wasn't animatronic, it was an actor in a suit. In the sequel, the animatronics took over. It was powered by cables and hydraulics with two puppeteers inside the device operating its arms with 16 others moving the rest of the creature.
4. The Terminator
James Cameron's original drawings for this film intended the Terminator to be stop motion animation. Jim Henson's puppet-based technology helped bring this baddie to life on screen.
5. Gremlins
They were tiny, they liked to cause trouble, they were cute and they came in all sorts of colors. They were the Gremlins. Chris Walas, also famous for the melting Nazi soldiers in Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, designed and brought the little creatures to life for this film. The animatronics used here was complex. The lead Gremlin, Stripe, required 64 controls to make him work.
6. King Kong
In 1976, the classic horror film from 1933 King Kong was remade. In this version, the giant ape stood 40 feet tall and weighed almost 13,000 pounds. Three-thousand, one-hundred feet of hydraulic hose and 4,500 feet of electrical wiring went into building the monster. Twenty technicians were required to operate it. However, despite all of this, the Carlo Rambaldi created beast often malfunctioned and appeared only in a few glimpses in the final cut of the film.
7. E.T.
Carlo Rambaldi created the lovable little alien from Steven Spielberg's much-loved film E.T.: The Extra Terresterrial. E.T. had an aluminum and steel skeleton with fiberglass, polyurethane and foam rubber for an exterior and was capable of 150 motions. To add authenticity, Steven Spielberg enlisted a craftsman who made glass eyes for the blind to create the human-like eyes.
You can read more about Charles Choi's list here, including photos and more details about the creatures and how they work.
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