Richard Williams

Aug 30, 2024 | animationmagazine.net | Richard Williams

“[Robert Zemeckis] asked, ‘But isn’t it more work?’ And I replied, ‘What do you think animation is? It’s nothing but work. That’s our job, turning things in space.’”— Richard WilliamsMy next huge opportunity came in 1986 with Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Disney had developed the project for seven years and Robert Zemeckis worked on it when he was younger. Then he said, “I’ll see you guys later,” and left.

Aug 10, 2024 | tvtropes.org | Richard Williams

"...a definitive example of what can happen when everybody working on a film goes simultaneously berserk."The one that's a complete parody. The second adaptation (after the 1954 Climax! episode) of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, released in 1967. It was originally planned to be a straight adaptation of the one novel that Eon Productions (at the time) didn't have the rights to, but producer Charles Feldman instead decided to mount it as spoof of James Bond and spy films in general.

Feb 19, 2024 | romesentinel.com | Richard Williams

CLINTON — Just as the nation takes time during Black History Month in February to reflect on Black history since the 1600’s, there is some local black history in the Clinton and Kirkland areas that dates back several centuries as well. Not much has been written about blacks in Kirkland/Clinton before its founding in 1787, but after some digging, here’s the story. Our first settlers were white Anglo-Saxon Christians, but no blacks arrived with them. Were there slaves in Clinton?

Oct 8, 2023 | thedailystar.net | Richard Williams

In 1870, a song collector from Calcutta called Nanda Lal Sharma flicked through the pages of his newly published book, Sangit Sutra. In the central pages was a thumri lyric, set to the rag Alhaiya Khamaj. Thumri was becoming an increasingly popular genre in Calcutta at that time, especially in the exclusive salons where the city's most celebrated courtesans would sing and dance to lyrics in Brajbhasha Hindi, dripping with emotion and longing. This particular song stood out though.

Sep 5, 2023 | burlington.org.uk | Richard Williams

By Suzaan Boettger. 440 pp. incl. 30 col. + 90 b. & w. ills. (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2023), $34.95 ISBN 978–1–5179–1354–0 The foundation myth of this compelling psychobiography of the American artist Robert Smithson (1938–73) occurs early on in the book. It is 1936 and the artist’s older brother Harold has just died of leukaemia at the age of nine. At this time such a diagnosis meant death; and what a horrible death it was.