George O'Hanlon and Joe McDoakes: The Original Hard-Luck Kid

George O'Hanlon is an actor you'd know by his voice more than his face.

Three words: Meet George Jetson.

In this week's Screen Time 17, my guest is Andrea Romano. Andrea has been working in voiceover direction (and previously casting) since the 1980's, and a significant portion of our discussion centers around the great Mr. O'Hanlon, with whom she worked on the 1980's revival of The Jetsons.

Warner Archive has collected all 63 of the Joe McDoakes shorts on DVD, clocking in at 650 minutes of content. Here's the one I found on YouTube, "So You Want to Be a Detective":

I grew up trying to imitate the voices of guys like O'Hanlon, and his comedic timing formed so much of my formative study of acting. Cartoons were the radio theatre of my generation and so many others before and since.

The Grandmasters: First Trailer

Twitchfilm has just posted the trailer for Wong Kar Wai's 5 years in the making Ip Man movie, The Grandmasters. Starring Tony Leung (In the Mood for Love) and Zhang Ziyi, and featuring Yuen Woo Ping fight choreography, it tells the story of wing chun kung fu pioneer Ip Man. There have been two separate Ip Man movie franchises launched in recent years, but this could be the greatest one of them all.

The movie hits China on 18 December.

After watching the trailer four times, I've embedded it here:

Oogieloves: The Biggest Box Office Flop in History

On over 2000 screens, it made a hair over $400,000 this weekend.

At CinemaCon in April, there were standees and poters proclaiming it as the next big thing "from the marketing genius behind Teletubbies". They assumed they could just shove a new thing down everyone's throats, including loads of cheap toys assembled by small children in southeast Asia.

I almost forgot that it also includes Cary Elwes' highest profile recent performance:

Road to Asylum of the Daleks

The BBC posted the five-part "Pond Life" prequel serial all in one "Omnibus" package, and someone or another uploaded a "Prequel" piece that appears to have only been made available to iTunes Season Pass subscribers.

New DRAGONBALL Z Anime Feature in 2013

JEFusion is reporting that it takes place during a "lost decade" in the story after the defeat of "Maijin Buu". The trailer embedded below features loads of CG, and I have no idea is that's consistent with what they plan to do in the finished product. You never can tell with these anime trailers.

My wife was big into Dragonball Z when she was in grade school. I never got into it until she and I got bored with too much money and started buying the Dragon Box DVD Collector's Sets, which included the original Japanese audio, retranslated subtitles, and no edits...and loads of filler.

Patrick Stewart, Simon Pegg, and Olympic Ticket Scalping

"That's called a 'murdering them'."

The Olympic Ticket Scalper with Patrick Stewart, Ryan Lochte, Simon Pegg & Maisie Williams from Patrick Stewart

DOCTOR WHO Series 7 Trailer

Dinosaurs on a spaceship, folks.

DARK KNIGHT RETURNS Part 1 Trailer

MTV has the exclusive on the animated adaptation of Frank Miller's iconic Batman story. Peter Weller is a perfect Old Batman. Can't wait to find out who they got for Joker and Superman...casting which they haven't announced yet.

Snoop Lion, Form Voltron!

At 4pm CST today, the below embed will broadcast a live press conference in which rapper Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Doggy Dogg, aka S-to-tha-N-to-tha-Double-O-P to That D-O-Double-G) announces his "reincarnation" as Snoop Lion, a rastafarian musician.

I maintain that if he were to have gone with Snoop Lion-O (ThunderSnoop, HOOOOO!) or Snoop Voltron, he'd be crossing over in a bigger way.

BREAKING: This can only mean that Mac OS 10.9 will be Mac OS "Snoop Lion".

(UPDATE: I gave the live stream a full 15 minutes after its scheduled time to start before I gave up.)

CLOUD ATLAS: Life, The Universe, and Everything

Check out the just-posted extended trailer for Cloud Atlas, from Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and the Wachowskis (Matrix, Speed Racer).

It's pretty abundantly clear that although its story may not answer The Question as posed in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", it most certainly is about "life, the universe, and everything". Actors play different characters, ages, roles, and even genders across the span of human existence.

I'm glad they didn't rush bringing footage to CinemaCon back in April, becuase this is how the movie should be packaged and sold: the epic story of existence, and all that entails.

Count me sold.

Marty's Day Out (featuring Siri)

I wish that Scorsese would do another side thing featuring himself, like My Voyage to Italy. This time, it woud feature his plucky new sidekick, Siri. Oh the escapades they'd get into. Think of something that'd be called Marty's Day Out, with a Gershwin score.