This is part of a series of drone shots from 2017 as published in the DAILY MAIL. The other photographs are well worth the time to peruse (it’s not obvious, but they’re hippos).
Some sitesagree that this is a wrap party… One said a birthday party for Judy Garland (doubtful).
But most say it was either a birthday party or a farewell one for Victor Fleming, who was their first director (the movie went through several.)
Judy looks alarmed… is she looking at those little statuettes? Is one of her?
She probably wasn’t allowed to have any cake.
From all reports, she had a miserable time making this movie.. I’ve read quite a bit about it.
She was only 16 when filming started… The studio heads called her fat, put her on a strict diet, and gave her speed. They’d wanted Shirley Temple, and couldn’t get her, so they tried to make Judy look younger. She had to wear tight bands to make her chest flat.
The established stars like Ray Bolger and Bert Lahr were mean to her because she was a kid who got top billing. The munchkins got drunk, made crude remarks and groped her.
Margaret Hamilton was nice to her. Why is she the only one in costume here?
This bunny probably means no harm… I’m sure he thinks he’s a cute friendly bunny. In fact it’s probably Daddy in that suit, unprepared for the thought that he’s striking terror into the hearts of his children.
On the other hand, it reminds me of one bad Easter week when I was working in the mall, in downtown Santa Rosa.
I heard a bit of commotion, but couldn’t leave the shop to find out what happened till later.
The mall hired Santas from an agency, at Christmas time. They’d have a giant chair, a red suited, fake bearded Santa Claus, a couple of elves, and a photographer. Kids lined up all day to sit in his lap. Parents bought pictures.
So the mall decided to have the same agency send an Easter Bunny. It went great for i think a couple of years, even though the bunny costume wasn’t cute, to me. One year even less cute.
As a line of children waited for a turn in his lap, several local policemen showed up. They walked straight to the bunny, and as one lifted a child out of his lap, the others said something to him and placed him in handcuffs. Children were crying, their parents shouting, as they led him away.
It turned out that the agency had done no background checks on their candidates. This fellow was a registered sex offender, a convicted child molester, forbidden to be within 50 feet of a child.
There were no reporters present, but the photographers got pictures of it all, and the next day it was in the paper. Parents were outraged, not only at the agency, but at the police, for making the arrest in front of traumatized children.
The mall changed agencies for Santa, though it took a few years for trust to build, and I don’t think they’ve ever had another Easter Bunny.
Nope, I just looked, and they had an Easter Bunny this year… but a story is still online about the one who got arrested in 1990. Sometime in between I guess they figured everyone forgot. 🙂
Yeah, I’m pretty sure there’d have to be meat stuffed in it.
I was having the same thought, before I saw your post… so I searched the image, and tracked it down to a zoo in the state of Washington… for a Halloween event, their website says
“Tigers with pumpkins is always a good time! Watch our Sumatran tigers devour pumpkins tomorrow and Sunday at 12:30 pm during Zoo Boo.”
But I still don’t believe tigers will “devour” empty pumpkins.
Washington Park Zoo in Portland during the summer gives their big cats what they call blood balls. Its water balloon filed with bloody water and meat chunks and frozen. They peel the balloon off and give it to the cats. The cats love them. It hits three ways. Habitat enrichment, simple treat, and it helps cool off on the rare days that it gets really hot.
Unless you’re obsessed with movies and studios it’s unlikely you’ll get two of them.
The caption in the box…..
Paramount executives pose with stars that were making productions on the studio lot in 1969. (Front row, l-r) Lee Marvin (“Paint Your Wagon”), Paramount VP Robert Evans, Barbra Streisand (“On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”), Paramount VP Bernard Donnenfeld, Clint Eastwood (“Paint Your Wagon”). (Top row, l-r) Rock Hudson (“Darling Lili”), John Wayne (“True Grit”), Yves Montand (“On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”). (Thanx to Frank Story.)
Here I am, boys and girls….
Bringing you the solution to today’s prehistoric puzzle…. but probably not the solution to our pair of protagonists’ problem.
How did this fate befall them?
I’m betting Claude pushed a button he shouldn’t have pushed… and a certain basset hound abetted him.
And now look!
Will they ever see Cleveland again?
Probably, cos I don’t recall this being the final Cleo and Company strip. 🙂
How will they get there? Not our problem.
Our problem was only to find 9 differences between these two panels, and….
A poor seven, and one of those wasn’t much of a difference between the two panels. I had to look very closely to see it even after looking at the solution.
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Pretty in Pink.
Someone had to say it…
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This is part of a series of drone shots from 2017 as published in the DAILY MAIL. The other photographs are well worth the time to peruse (it’s not obvious, but they’re hippos).
A hippodrome!
Taken by a hippo-drone.
Oh! Boo! 😀
hear! hear!
I would advise staying out of those waters any time the hippos are in it.
They are really strict on enforcing “adult swim?”
…
Is Robbie’s goose cooked or Robbie’s cook goosed?
Yes.
….
Totally with you. Protect that cello. It is probably worth more than you.
Gonna need a bigger umbrella.
Would have done better to wrap it in cello-phane…
😀
…..
traditional wrap party
It looks like the wicked witch is already chowing down. Avoid the cake.
Some sitesagree that this is a wrap party… One said a birthday party for Judy Garland (doubtful).
But most say it was either a birthday party or a farewell one for Victor Fleming, who was their first director (the movie went through several.)
Judy looks alarmed… is she looking at those little statuettes? Is one of her?
She probably wasn’t allowed to have any cake.
From all reports, she had a miserable time making this movie.. I’ve read quite a bit about it.
She was only 16 when filming started… The studio heads called her fat, put her on a strict diet, and gave her speed. They’d wanted Shirley Temple, and couldn’t get her, so they tried to make Judy look younger. She had to wear tight bands to make her chest flat.
The established stars like Ray Bolger and Bert Lahr were mean to her because she was a kid who got top billing. The munchkins got drunk, made crude remarks and groped her.
Margaret Hamilton was nice to her. Why is she the only one in costume here?
It’ll never catch on…
Stay cool. Just act like you totally planned it.
Shenanigans!
He falls and the bike is behind him, then he slides into it?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught that.
,
That monster would scare me too! (Sorry, Happy…)
BUNNY !!!
From HELL !!!
That’s hilarious! 😀
This bunny probably means no harm… I’m sure he thinks he’s a cute friendly bunny. In fact it’s probably Daddy in that suit, unprepared for the thought that he’s striking terror into the hearts of his children.
On the other hand, it reminds me of one bad Easter week when I was working in the mall, in downtown Santa Rosa.
I heard a bit of commotion, but couldn’t leave the shop to find out what happened till later.
The mall hired Santas from an agency, at Christmas time. They’d have a giant chair, a red suited, fake bearded Santa Claus, a couple of elves, and a photographer. Kids lined up all day to sit in his lap. Parents bought pictures.
So the mall decided to have the same agency send an Easter Bunny. It went great for i think a couple of years, even though the bunny costume wasn’t cute, to me. One year even less cute.
As a line of children waited for a turn in his lap, several local policemen showed up. They walked straight to the bunny, and as one lifted a child out of his lap, the others said something to him and placed him in handcuffs. Children were crying, their parents shouting, as they led him away.
It turned out that the agency had done no background checks on their candidates. This fellow was a registered sex offender, a convicted child molester, forbidden to be within 50 feet of a child.
There were no reporters present, but the photographers got pictures of it all, and the next day it was in the paper. Parents were outraged, not only at the agency, but at the police, for making the arrest in front of traumatized children.
The mall changed agencies for Santa, though it took a few years for trust to build, and I don’t think they’ve ever had another Easter Bunny.
Nope, I just looked, and they had an Easter Bunny this year… but a story is still online about the one who got arrested in 1990. Sometime in between I guess they figured everyone forgot. 🙂
Harvey?
,,
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For Happy:
Both are working.
Go figure.
Thank you! 🙂
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Yup!
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Why is an obligate carnivore attacking a pumpkin?
Maybe there’s some hamburger meat inside…
Yeah, I’m pretty sure there’d have to be meat stuffed in it.
I was having the same thought, before I saw your post… so I searched the image, and tracked it down to a zoo in the state of Washington… for a Halloween event, their website says
“Tigers with pumpkins is always a good time! Watch our Sumatran tigers devour pumpkins tomorrow and Sunday at 12:30 pm during Zoo Boo.”
But I still don’t believe tigers will “devour” empty pumpkins.
Think more chew toy.
Washington Park Zoo in Portland during the summer gives their big cats what they call blood balls. Its water balloon filed with bloody water and meat chunks and frozen. They peel the balloon off and give it to the cats. The cats love them. It hits three ways. Habitat enrichment, simple treat, and it helps cool off on the rare days that it gets really hot.
They do the same kind of thing in Dallas according to this story.
Slate
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/07/dallas-zoo-bloodsicles-zoologist-summer-heat-wave.html
I’ve seen pictures of that, maybe from the same zoos, or maybe it’s pretty universal.
Also big chunks of ice in various animals’ water dishes, and a load of ice for polar bears to lie on.
I don’t like ice, so I never keep ice cubes, but I did for a while, when I discovered that my little dog liked to chew them when it was hot.
It probably said something derogatory – maybe even biting – about the tiger’s mother.
I was just listening to a story about meat-eating squirrels, so…
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/27/1221795524/california-meat-squirrels-carnivorous-voles
,..
The caption in the box…..
Paramount executives pose with stars that were making productions on the studio lot in 1969. (Front row, l-r) Lee Marvin (“Paint Your Wagon”), Paramount VP Robert Evans, Barbra Streisand (“On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”), Paramount VP Bernard Donnenfeld, Clint Eastwood (“Paint Your Wagon”). (Top row, l-r) Rock Hudson (“Darling Lili”), John Wayne (“True Grit”), Yves Montand (“On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”). (Thanx to Frank Story.)
,,,,comes from
HERE.
Got four.
3 for me
I recognized all the actors, but I was having a hard time with the two who it turns out are not actors.
Does anyone else find Robert Evans’s obsession with Streisand’s bust a bit creepy?
You noticed that too? 🤣
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Once again, I think I have found all the differences. But I’ve been wrong before.
Excelsior!
…
Is he playing peek-a-boo, or this Candid Camera?
Unexpected window?
Perfect timing.
“You talkin’ to me?”
I think I have eight.
Here I am, boys and girls….
Bringing you the solution to today’s prehistoric puzzle…. but probably not the solution to our pair of protagonists’ problem.
How did this fate befall them?
I’m betting Claude pushed a button he shouldn’t have pushed… and a certain basset hound abetted him.
And now look!
Will they ever see Cleveland again?
Probably, cos I don’t recall this being the final Cleo and Company strip. 🙂
How will they get there? Not our problem.
Our problem was only to find 9 differences between these two panels, and….
Got the same nine.
That was my first puzzle ever on Cleo and Company years ago…
A poor seven, and one of those wasn’t much of a difference between the two panels. I had to look very closely to see it even after looking at the solution.
Took me a while to notice
Same here.
That’s the one.
Yup.
Number nine for me was too subtle to notice on my phone.
I’m still happy with my eight. 🙂
A very rare: NINE !!!!
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Boo.
That one’s dragon a bit.
I’m not lion.
Tell that to Lady Sybil Ramkin!!
I did think of the Swamp Dragon’s unfortunate habit when I posted this.
Brain twister:
What has four letters, sometimes 9, but never has 5.
…and always has 6.
Yet it only has two!