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Mary Poppins

Here Be Dragons

Good News, Someone Else Knows About Pete’s Dragon. Bad News, They’re Remaking It.

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:02 am, March 21st, 2013

I’m not joking when I say I really thought no one else knew about Disney’s 1977 film Pete’s Dragon. My family owned it on Betamax and it was in regular rotation in our home but no one else I knew ever talked about it. Regardless, it’s the next Disney film up for a remake and I’m going to go fly away on my invisible dragon now, k? 

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Oh My Stars and Garters

Nightlights for All Ages: Beautiful Famous Female Character Lightboxes

by Susana Polo | 3:28 pm, February 28th, 2013

Look, just because you stopped being afraid of the dark a long time ago doesn’t mean your room isn’t full of comic boxes to stub your toes on. I mean, you’re going to clean them up and put them away soon, as soon as you get one organizing them, but right now you need them there so that you don’t lose your place. Yes, I am sure that pile is perfectly stable don’t touch it.

Or maybe you know someone who knows someone who needs a little light up Wonder Woman to brighten their blackest night?

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eye candy

Silhouettes Of Pop-Culture Duos Stare Each Other Down

by Jill Pantozzi | 10:17 am, December 20th, 2012

Artist Isabel Talsma has a way with silhouettes but something special happens when two figures from a particular story are squared against each other. Some are enemies, some friends, while some love each other a great deal. See who else she’s paired up.

(via Isabel Talsma on Etsy)

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Officially Official

‘Mary Poppins’ Production Biopic is a Go, Emma Thompson is P.L. Travers

by Zoe Chevat | 11:45 am, September 20th, 2012

You feel us, Banks?

Ms. Poppins and her umbrella are getting some serious mileage, of late. Hot on the chimney-top stomping heels of a hit Broadway translation, the Walt Disney Co is putting semi-biopic Saving Mr. Banks onto the slate for next year. Yesterday marked the start of production on the 60s period piece, which will chronicle Walt Disney‘s 20-year odyssey to obtain the screen rights to P.L. Travers‘ books and character, focusing on the tension between the author and the company’s founder during the making of the classic film. In the author’s corner is the immeasurable Emma Thompson, and in Disney’s, none other than Tom Hanks. Paul Giamatti, Colin Farrell, and Jason Schwartzman round out the cast, though IMDB has no listing yet for who’s on deck to play Julie Andrews.

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It Came From Outer Space

8 of the Goofiest Things From the Olympics Opening Ceremony

by Alanna Bennett | 12:30 pm, July 28th, 2012

We live in a world full of spectacle. Within that world, there’s no international spectacle (insert jazz hands) that quite matches the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Yes, it’s grand, and magnificent, and painstakingly planned down to every detail. It also has a tendency to be goofy and over-the-top. We felt things, and we laughed, and sometimes we yawned. We sat down to watch the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics last night, and we’ve compiled some of the best–and most ludicrous–moments.

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It's A World of Laughter A World of Tears

Robert Sherman, Prolific Songwriter for Disney, Dies at 86

by Jamie Frevele | 9:33 am, March 7th, 2012

Robert Sherman, one of the most accomplished songwriters for the Disney brand, has passed away at the age of 86. Chances are, you have heard several of his many, many famous songs, including the one that inspired the category we used for this post, “It’s a Small World,” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” His son posted the announcement on Facebook earlier this week, and he is survived by friends, family, and his huge legacy.

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It Goes Ding When There's Stuff

Mary Poppins, A Timelord?

by Susana Polo | 10:17 am, February 23rd, 2012

You might not think that Mary Poppins showing up on Google Streetview might necessarily indicate that she’s a millennia old Gallifreyan traveller, but just read fireflyastoria’s compelling argument below. (Hint: this is a Google Streetview view of Cardiff, Wales.)

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Oh Hollywood

Film About Disney’s Struggle With Mary Poppins Author Starring Tom Hanks & Meryl Streep? Sign Me Up

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:47 am, February 9th, 2012

Australian novelist, actress, and journalist, Pamela Lyndon Travers is best known for writing the classic novels starring Mary Poppins. Her work went on to become a major film from Walt Disney that was tremendously successful at the box office and went on to win five Academy Awards. Now, a undeveloped screenplay from last year about the author and her issues with the company during the making of the film may be making it’s way to theaters itself with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in starring roles. 

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Almost Totally Excellent

Things We Forgot About Childhood Movies: Suffragettes in Mary Poppins

by Susana Polo | 12:55 pm, March 8th, 2011

In the original Mary Poppins books, Mrs. Banks was simply a “struggling mistress” of the household, “easily intimidated” and treated with contempt by the books’ namesake, presumably for her need to even have a nanny. In the 1960′s Disney movie, she was updated to a loving mother who nevertheless cannot care for her children alone because she is frequently carried away by waves of excitement for the fledgling suffragette movement.

Dubious “proper motherhood and feminism = oil and water” implications aside, holy shit, look at the history in my Disney movie! This is better than the prostitutes in Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Anyway, as a daughter’s daughter: Happy 100th International Women’s Day.

(via Full of Woah!)

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