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You thought I was freaking out about Tom Jones again, didn’t you? Nope, I’m freaking out about Fernando Reginato, who directed the animated music video for Jones’ single “Give A Little Love”.

Channel Frederator: Where did you study animation?

Fernando Reginato: Animation has always been a part of my life. Since an early age I would be in front of the TV watching cartoons and then trying to draw my favorite characters. I went to a design school in Sao Paulo, and later dropped to study film. The truth is I’ve never been good with schools, but I’ve always been very hard working. I’ve been working with post production for the past six years, and now that I have moved to directing and animating, I finally found myself doing what I’ve always liked.

CF: What has influenced your work the most?

FR: Design, animation, music, love, film, computers, food, photography, big cities and friends. That is [Read more…]

Yes, this 6-foot-4-inch Betty Boop statue is content and intact. That’s because I decided to spare you the sight of the famous decapitated Betty Boop statue now being auctioned off on Ebay. (That is, until the jump. I am sensitive to cartoon community standards!)

Anyway, back in 2005, someone made off with the statue of Betty Boop that sat outside of Cool and Eclectic Furniture in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She was found on the side of the road with her noggin missing-in-action. Despite national publicity and an appearance in the comic strip “Zippy the Pinhead”, her face was never found. (This link takes you to the Zippy strip.)

(Eerie coincidence: In the Betty Boop version of “Snow White”, the Queen orders Bimbo and Koko to behead Betty!)

The famous vandalized vixen is currently for sale on Ebay. CLICK HERE to bid!

Opening bid is $1299. It’s been up there a while and the price started at $1979.99 and keeps dropping so you may want to wait. If you’d like a headed Betty, the one above is available for $1099 .

Just last Friday, Cool and Eclectic Furniture got some more press as they reported the theft of an Elvis statue. (Hmmm…bad luck or publicity stunt?)

See the pathetic sight of headless Betty after the jump…

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If you don’t watch a lot of trashy Reality TV (I admit it, I do!) you probably missed last night’s episode of Sheer Genius, the hairstyling competition show on Bravo. Why post about it here? Because the challenge this week was to give your model a hairstyle based upon one of a select group of cartoon characters. The animated icons were: Wilma Flintstone, Betty Boop, Judy Jetson, Lucy from Peanuts, Jem, and Marge Simpson.

Here are three of the best interpretations: a Marge, a Betty, a Wilma, and a (Grown-Up) Lucy. Lucy won.

Strangely, they kept talking about capturing Lucy’s “innocence”, which is not exactly the first adjective that comes to mind (well, my mind) to describe this clever, high-strung, and rather manipulative young lady!

(Now if only Top Chef would have the Swedish Chef from the Muppets on as a guest judge!)

—Anne D. Bernstein

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