I’m not sure what that has to do with anything. Id is still working on Rage (it was just given a release date this weekend) along with Doom 4, a bunch of iPhone projects and the next generation of their idTech engine.
It means they no longer exist. When Up and Toy Story 3 came out, they weren’t successes for Pixar. They were successes for Disney.
I see them all the time. TheKid and her friends all live in tie-dyes and drug rugs. I prefer it over the all black skater crap they wore a few years ago.
You’re talking out your ass. Pixar was acquired as a subsidiary, not absorbed by the freakin’ Borg, and it still very much exists. It has its own management and (more importantly) creative team, and enjoys co-branding side by side with its parent company. Furthermore, Disney has its own separate animation studio apart from Pixar.
No longer exist? Id Software may have merged with another company, but they’re still run with complete autonomy and John Carmack has final say on all things id, just as he always had.
They even held their annual QuakeCon expo this weekend. It was the same as it ever was.
Not quite the same thing, but since I was talking about stuff like this with some friends just last night over beers at Trafalgar Tavern: Titanic (1997 - good god, has it already been 13 years?) is the second-highest grossing film of all time, and only beaten out last year. It won a boatload (heh) of awards (except best actor/actress). Would you sit and watch it again?
For someone that played James Bond in multiple 007 films, Timothy Dalton isn’t really heard from all that much anymore…
I would, but that’s just me. But I know what you’re saying – and I’ve read some things recently (maybe on this board) reflecting on the possibility that Lord of the Rings is heading down the same road.
Zenith. Used to be one of the standard bearers in the home electronics world. But I can’t remember the last time I saw a Zenith television.
Also is ICQ still around? I seem to remember that it was a pretty popular chat-type service in the late 90s (think an early version of Facebook). But I can’t remember the last time I heard someone refer to it.
Ska enjoyed a brief revival in the US around 1996 or 1997. (I’m ashamed to admit that I was involved) Many people still remember No Doubt as a “ska band.” I don’t think Ska is as dead as is thought. Reggae certainly isn’t.
So I guess in your universes, Hong Kong is still a democracy?
That tribute song for Princess Diana (Candle in the Wind) was also a massive #1 hit and record breaker (biggest single of all time according to the Guinness book), but made no real impact and is now forgotten. The same thing might apply to Diana herself, actually. :eek:
Here is an article from a 1994 issue of "American Heritage"magazine on the October, 1926 visit to America by Queen Marie of Romania
Arrival in New York City was described by NY Times as “Most relentless camera bombardment”.
21 gun salute, ticket tape parade escorted by 600 policemen to City Hall where Mayor Jimmy Walker gave her the Gold Medal of New York. Went to Washington and met President Coolidge twice, who dreaded her coming. Visits in other cities before large crowds, such as having a mountain named after her in Denver.
Depression came and no one cared about Romania. 12 years later, she was dead.
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1994/6/1994_6_110.shtml
THe musical still undergoes the occasional revival (see Moulin Rouge, Evita). But particular subclasses have just vanished.
The Busby Berkeley musical is now dead in the water, yet at the time, Warner Brothers built one of the largest sound stages ever for him.
And Bob Fosse choreography, with all the jazz hands, stooped shoulders, neck popping and hat flipping. Watch Sweet Charity and see how badly dated it all is. No-one could credibly choreograph like that anymore.
A decade and a half later, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek of China had much the same reception if not bigger, and FDR likewise considered her a headache.
China fell, the US got bogged down in Vietnam, and the Chiangs lost quite a bit of their luster, to say the least. But Madame Chiang survived into the 21st century.
Went to a fondue restaurant last night.
AWESOME!!!
Roots still has over 100 locations in Canada. Someone must be buying that stuff. (I think I have a toque and some shirts from there.)
David Ball has a cult following that predates his CW career. He was a member of the legendary Uncle Walt’s Band. Not huge, but definitely not forgotten.
Does anyone remember 1960s teen model Colleen Corby? No doubt many popular models have aged and disappeared into obscurity, but she was the IT girl when it mattered to me.
Those first two Crocodile Dundee movies were huge. Until today I wasn’t aware there was a third. The first two grossed about 600 million worldwide.
I wonder why Hogan vanished. He has two film credits after the final Dundee and Linda Kozlowski disappeared altogether after that film.
The Tarzan TV series of the 1960s.
Ron Eli was a great Tarzan, & the series spawned several full-length motion pictures, but now?
Poof.