# 2244

Written by Fred Patten, and intended for Apa L, 2244^th Distribution, LASFS Meeting No. 3692, May 15, 2008.
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Last Tuesday I got a telephone call from a lawyer who asked if I could be an expert witness in a case involving Japanese animation. After explaining that I was bedridden, I suggested that he contact TOKYOPOP as a Los Angeles company filled with experts on anime.

Last Thursday my sister Sherrill took me to the LASFS meeting. This week's cheese samples were smoked cheddar rolled in paprika; good, but I preferred the double Gloucester. Warren Johnson said something about a cosplay café opening in Culver City; I did not understand whether this was connected with the cheeses or not. June Moffatt gave me a used cell phone for Glen Wooten for my Cell Phone Drive at CaliFur IV tomorrow. Charlie Jackson bought an Astro Boy bobblehead toy at the Money Gouge auction and gave it to Sherry for my study in her apartment. The reading program for the public library unveiled some snazzy rocket displays by David Okamoto, and a logo as The Reading Rocketeers all ready to be made into T-shirts. I announced the forthcoming (in India only) Disney-Yash Raj Films co-production of Roadside Romeo, a loose remake of Lady and the Tramp as a Bollywood-style musical starring computer graphics dogs.

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ˇZANAHORIAS ELECTRóNICAS!

-- Comments on Last Week's Distribution:

Cover - (Cantor) Most of the Worth1000.com covers have been very attractive. This one is just creepy.

I Rain in Iguanas - (Cantor) I already identified Mark Stanley's Freefall comic strip last week as an example of Furry science fiction, not fantasy. Other examples: Heinlein's "Jerry Was a Man", the novels Sirius by Olaf Stapledon, Dark Inheritance by W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear, The Pride of Chanur by C. J. Cherryh, Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper, Chimera by Will Shetterly, Shaman by Sandra Miesel, and Rememory by John Betancourt. The first of all, H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau. Ratha's Creature by Clare Bell, Decision at Doona by Anne McCaffrey, Lovelock by Orson Scott Card & Kathryn H. Kidd, The Alien Dark by Diana G. Gallagher, the "Sholan Alliance" novels of Lisanne Norman, and Forests of the Night by S. Andrew Swann. Dean Koontz's Nightmare Journey, set 100,000 years in the future which he will not allow to be reprinted as an embarrassing early novel, and Watchers, set today and maybe his most popular novel. Karel Capek's War With the Newts. Hmmm, is The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor s-f or fantasy? ## In the early 1950s before Disneyland was built, Anaheim was mostly orange orchards. Disneyland was plagued with the big crab spiders and golden garden spiders from the orchards for several years after the orange trees were cut down.

De Jueves #1582 - (Moffatts) And of course the LASFS was named the Science Fantasy Society instead of Science Fiction Society because the members in 1940 wanted to include fantasies like Unknown published in addition to straight s-f. ## Thanks for the information about where Dian Crayne's stories are available. I had hoped that they might be in books that I could get for free from the public library.

Vanamonde #780 - (Hertz) Works better and works cheaper are unfortunately more likely to be antagonists than friends. ## My philosophy of convention running, put into practice at Loscon XIV in 1987, is that all committee members should be marginally aware of the entire convention and suggest improvements. I do not believe in rigidly compartmentalizing functions; things slip through the cracks, like everyone assuming that somebody else was in charge of producing the con newszine. ## I read somewhere (maybe here in Apa L?) that sales of Wensleydale cheese had diminished to the point that production of it was about to stop, until its promotion in the Wallace & Gromit films made it popular again.

Godzilla Verses #190 - (DeChancie) You can get away with a short story that is little but talk. It is much harder to write a novel with no action. I recently reviewed a Furry s-f (!) story by Will A. Sanborn, "Comparisons and Common Ground" (six pages), in which human interstellar explorer Susan and her new felinoid Rrakith friend Vashi discuss their respective faiths; Judaism and the Rrakiths' planetwide matriarchal religion. "The story is a pleasant exercise in Talking Heads; a nice interstellar First Contact mood piece with no drama or action." (Anthro #16) ## The paranormal romances feature romance in the modern, sexual sense of the term. The Kitty Norville werewolf series, which I reviewed for Renard's Menagerie #5 in January, began with a short story in Weird Tales in 2001, "Dr. Kitty Solves All Your Love Problems".

"Roadside Romeo" - In "Roadside Romeo," a rich, cool, spoiled brat of a dog is abandoned on the wicked streets of Mumbai. He faces new situations and dangerous, loony characters, the likes of which he has never met before.

Written and directed by debutante Jugal Hansraj, who acted in Bollywood films such as Mohabbatein and Salaam Namaste, "Roadside Romeo" is the first animated film that is an India-U.S. co-production of Yash Raj Films and the Walt Disney Company.

Roadside Romeo
Summer 2008

"Roadside Romeo" - In "Roadside Romeo," a rich, cool, spoiled brat of a dog is abandoned on the wicked streets of Mumbai. He faces new situations and dangerous, loony characters, the likes of which he has never met before.

Written and directed by debutante Jugal Hansraj, who acted in Bollywood films such as Mohabbatein and Salaam Namaste, "Roadside Romeo" is the first animated film that is an India-U.S. co-production of Yash Raj Films and the Walt Disney Company.

"Roadside Romeo" utilizes state-of-the-art computer-animation technology done entirely in India, and features music, dances, songs and romance just like any other film produced by Yash Raj Films.

We are not sure if Hollywood actors will be dubbing the voices for the United States release of "Roadside Romeo." But bet your paws on it, since the movie is a G-rated film targeted toward the under 10 crowd who are not typically known for besieging the local art house en masse to pony up their allowance to subtitled films.

STARRING The Voices of: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Javed Jaffrey
DIRECTOR: Jugal Hansraj
STUDIO: Yash Raj & Walt Disney
RATING: G
THEATER COUNT (Opening Weekend): TBD
RUNNING TIME: TBD
TOTAL DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: TBD
U.S. DVD RELEASE DATE: TBD