This is too weird

[Michael Fitzgerald]

NYT obituaries, Monday, June 27, 2005 p.B6 -

Paul Winchell, 82, TV Host And Film Voice of Pooh's Tigger

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/movies/27winc.html

John Fiedler, 80, Stage Actor And Film Voice of Pooh's Piglet

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/movies/27fiedler.html

As for the threes, it seems not. The above two gentlemen were the last of the original film voices from the Winnie The Pooh films.

Mike

And no, I'm not buying that these are the 2nd and 3rd following Thurl Ravenscroft.

[catesta]

That is a bit weird.

[DTMX]

Would love to see this Pooh:

Apocalypse Pooh (1987)

A review from IMDB.com:

An obscure but brilliant match-up of Winnie the Pooh cartoons and dialogue from "Apocalypse Now." The Pooh characters and Coppola's characters make some surprisingly well-suited pairs, such as a frantic Piglet mouthing Dennis Hopper's rants, or the casting of Rabbit as the machinist who is "wound too tight for the jungle." The filmmakers even reversed the technique for the Col. Kurtz character, combining footage of Brando with dialogue from Eeyore. And then there's that great closing line: "Oh bother...oh bother..."

The tape I saw also featured two similar combinations of wholesome animation and twisted cinema: "Blue Peanuts," with the Charles Schulz characters mouthing dialogue from "Blue Velvet" (Snoopy as Dennis Hopper...incredible!), and a "music video" of the Archies performing The Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen."

[Epithet]

Apocalypse Pooh available here: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2404060.

[7/4]

Brilliant movie!

[DTMX]

Apocalypse Pooh available here: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2404060.

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Thanks for the info - I never even thought to look on ifilm. Man, they really nailed the tiger/Tigger, Dennis Hopper/Piglet stuff. That was cool.

[Kalo]

Is Howard Morris the elusive third in this case?

From Slate.com: "John Fiedler, the voice of Piglet in Disney's Winnie the Pooh movies, died on Saturday. Fellow cast member Paul Winchell, who played Tigger, died the day before, and Howard Morris, the voice of Gopher in some early Pooh films, passed away last month. When a voice actor dies, what happens to his cartoon characters?"

http://www.slate.com/id/2121686/

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Ooooh - spoohky!

Mike

P.S. Tigger's voice had been taken over by another guy a few years back.

[Kalo]

Frankly, I think this "these things happen in threes" idea is a load of BS, more of a parlor game than a reflection of reality. But we humans like to use these thoughtlessly traditional templates as a frame for experience.

Just playing the game.

[bertrand]

If bad things don't come in threes, then how do you explain the three volumes of Wynton Marsalis' Soul Gestures In Southern Blue? Or the fact that Blood On The Fields is a 3-CD set?

Bertrand.