Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2017 March 22

= March 22 =

Advert girl
Is she some superheroine or just a for-advert girl? Appears to advertise Panasonic 4K TV set. Brandmeistertalk  17:53, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I can find no evidence she is anything except a generic superhero invented for the Panasonic ad campaign. Sadly, since you can't prove a negative it is tough to find any statement to say "she isn't anyone in particular" except to say that a good-faith effort on my part to find any reference to say she is anyone has turned up nothing useful for you.  Sorry!  -- Jayron 32 03:00, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what methods Jayron used, but I did reverse image searches with Tineye and Google Images and turned up nothing (other than advertisements for TVs). As a longtime fan of American superhero comics, I'll also mention that she doesn't look familiar to me at all, beyond the fact that it appears to be a generic super-heroine type costumer/style/etc. I also tried Googling the phrase panasonic license superheroes; it seems like the company at least once had a deal with DC Comics, so it's not out of the realm of possibility there's still a deal in place, though you'd think they'd prefer to use someone more well known. Matt Deres (talk) 01:14, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. Brandmeistertalk  21:48, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Help identifying people in image with Howard Hawks
Hi, I recently uploaded some images from our Howard Hawks collection. One of them has Howard Hawks sitting in folding chairs with some other people. Do you recognize any of the people in the photo? The back of the image said it was taken in 1929 in connection with Hearts in Exile (1929 film), but that may not be accurate. Our curator was guessing it could have been during the filming of The Dawn Patrol. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 19:10, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * The middle one in the middle row looks very much like John Russell, in which case the photo attribution would likely be inaccurate, as Russell's first acting credit (according to IMDb) is 1939's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. (Amazingly, Russell looks about the same in 1985's Pale Rider.) The two flanking him look familiar too, but I can't quite place them. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:55, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Actually, I was thinking it looked very much like Howard Hughes, who produced Hawks 1932 film Scarface. The guy with the frizzy hair over Hawk's left shoulder in the grey suit is, I think, Richard Rosson, Hawk's co-director on same film.  On Hughes's left looks like W. R. Burnett, one of the writers.  See here about 3/5ths down.  If that were the case, I would think that the picture is mislabeled and the other people were also involved in Scarface.  -- Jayron 32 01:31, 23 March 2017 (UTC)


 * More: the mustachioed gentlemen for whom we only see half of his face, cut off on the right edge of the picture, could be Ben Hecht. -- Jayron 32 01:38, 23 March 2017 (UTC)


 * You could very well be right about the other IDs, but the middle guy appears to have a cigarette in his hand, and Hughes was a non-smoker (" [Katharine Hepburn's smoking, a habit Howard could not abide"], "Hughes's lifelong non-drinking, non-smoking status"). Clarityfiend (talk) 07:34, 23 March 2017 (UTC)


 * That doesn't look much like Howard Hughes at all to me. The man has a combover. Howard Hughes didn't have a combover. He had slick-back hair. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 13:48, 23 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Hmm, the Scarface film seems a lot more likely, so I'll change my hedging description to reflect that. I agree that it looks like Richard Rosson and W.R. Burnett; I'm not sure about Howard Hughes, but the man's posture makes it difficult to see his face clearly. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:14, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

And if it happened in the animated series "Norman Normal" parody of the movie "Godfather"?
I remember moments that there was antagonist of the mafiosi who is a parody of Don Vito Corleone. He had a red flower on his jacket and jaw were exaggerated. Showed the wedding of his daughter, who also acted as antagonist. Among his associates one man was fat with a bald head, and another thin black glasses. Remember when the mafiosi put a gun to the boy and asked his friends a ransom for him. Besides, this boy was very similar to Norman Irwing from the animated series "Norman Normal"(1999). But I watched a lot of series and have not seen this in any. Please tell me whether in the animated series parody of the Godfather or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.100.189.2 (talk) 19:42, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Without knowing the first thing about "Norman Normal", your description doesn't sound much like parody (as distinct from other forms of artistic appropriation) &mdash; specifically, you've not given any indication that themes from The Godfather are being used for the purpose of being critical with respect to The Godfather. Instead, it looks more like a simple acknowledgement and use of the tropes of the earlier film which, by 1999, was well-established as a classic of the art form (ranked #3 all-time American film by the American Film Institute in 1998). It could also be read as an homage or, if more specifically focused, as a pastiche. &mdash; Lomn 21:50, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Lomn, I'm sorry but that's not the question, and that was Il such moments in the animated series or not and I confuse something? Have you seen this animated series? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.100.188.242 (talk) 18:46, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

And in the animated series "Mona the Vampire" Von Kreepsula know that Mona Parker is not a vampire, disguised as a human?
I didn't realize until then ask this question... If he knew about it why didn't he bite her? And if you do not know, then is it so difficult to tell a human from a vampire?Or is he a vegetarian? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.100.189.2 (talk) 19:49, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Any time you see something like that in a piece of fiction, a wizard did it. Matt Deres (talk) 01:55, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Matt,so Von Kreepsula knew about it or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.100.190.27 (talk) 19:36, 25 March 2017 (UTC)