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    PHE Press Release: Popeye (1980) (Blu-ray)

    I'm a little more hopeful for a Dragonslayer disk TODAY than I was in the 00's, since Dragonslayer, like Popeye, Clue and the Harrison Ford Jack-Ryans, seem to be on the list of Paramount "orphans" that are a little too accessible to streaming and third-party disk. I don't want to say "Public...
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    PHE Press Release: Popeye (1980) (Blu-ray)

    "'Please take care of my baby--'" "Ba-ba!" "Yeah, you're a 'baby', says right here!" (Not sure if that was in the script, but my favorite synergy of Williams-meets-Mercer ad-libs.) :lol:
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    PHE Press Release: Popeye (1980) (Blu-ray)

    While Robin & Shelley were trying to capture the cartoon voices, screenwriter Jules Pfeiffer said he was trying to capture the whimsical comic strip--The subplot about Baby Swee'pea predicting races was originally written for Eugene the Jeep (who we only saw in a couple of the Fleischer toons)...
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    PHE Press Release: Popeye (1980) (Blu-ray)

    Let's just say it's pretty darn likely. Popeye's been getting heavy rotation among the OOC Paramount "orphans" on streaming, and a disk release was When-Not-If. I'm not sure what the theory was behind Altman: I'd also heard Robert Evans' Dustin & Lily casting, back before Robin Williams...
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