My mother and a slew of babysitters read “The Wonderful World of Aunt Tuddy” to me as a child – with my cat named Zero parked on my lap – at bedtime every night throughout my childhood. The book is hilarious, and packed with potentially Disney-friendly funnies and characters galore. Of course, the store eventually catches the mistake, but not before hilarity ensues, and the confusion entertains the readers. Written by Jeremy Gury, illustrated by Hilary Knight, and published by Random House in 1958, the book is now so rare that a single tattered copy sells for more than $80 on and hundreds on eBay.Īs the story goes, when Aunt Tuddy’s nephew sends her a gift certificate to a big department store for $10 and the printing machine glitches it up to $100K, auntie goes on a spending spree. My advice: how about my favorite childhood book, “ The Wonderful World of Aunt Tuddy.” If you’re going to go to that much trouble, then at least pick a great children’s book that is brand new to Disney and go to town. In fact, Disney already made a live-action version of "The Jungle Book" in 1994, but that film was so watered down that I forgotten all about it. In order to make “The Jungle Book” palatable to today’s audience, it might have to be overhauled with only a few recognizable pieces – the setting, some animals, and the orphan boy – remaining to remind viewers what they are watching. I am all about leftovers, but Disney can afford fresher fare than a rehash of a film that will have to be so deconstructed from the original into an unrecognizable hash in order to succeed. More to the point, why bother with this morass when there are so many other books to choose from that are as yet undiscovered by the Disney audience? I would easily accept that response if I had no clue that the character was actually a celebration of Prima as an Italian-American musician and jazz artist. However, according to Yahoo, “The character is widely panned as exemplifying 'negative racial stereotyping' and connoting inequality between African-Americans and Caucasians.”įor many, including those who didn’t know that Prima was behind the voice, the character negatively represented African-Americans. That verbal exchange led to the ape king character in the film created by Disney studios, according to a 1967 interview with the animators and Prima. Prima with the idea for the song based on his performance style, Prima joked with the Disney staff, “You wanna make a monkey outta me?”Īccording to Oxford online dictionary in ‘60s-speak “making a monkey” of someone meant to embarrass them or make them look silly. In 1967, when Disney’s animators came to Mr. In the animated version, King Louie (not a character in Kipling's original text) does the Dixieland-style scat song “I Wanna Be Like You” sung by Italian-American jazz player Louis Prima, who was widely known as “The King of The Swing” in New Orleans back in the 1940s. Ukraine attack: Putin target may be democracy, near and far
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