They have a struggle returning to the city, briefly hitchhiking on the back of a milk cart before being unfortunately chased off by the driver. In the morning, Duchess meets an alley cat named Thomas O'Malley, who offers to guide her and the kittens to Paris. The cats are left alone and afraid in the countryside, while Madame Adelaide, Roquefort the Mouse and Frou Frou the horse discover their absence. After the conflict, Edgar escapes, leaving behind his umbrella, hat, the cats' bed basket and the sidecar of his motorcycle in the process. However, two hound dogs named Napoleon and Lafayette attack him. Edgar hears this from his own room and believes he will be dead before he inherits Madame Adelaide's fortune, and so plots to remove the cats from a position of inheritance (clearly not thinking about how he would be essentially in control of the fortune, despite having to take good care of them).Įdgar sedates the cats by putting an entire bottle of sleeping pills into their food and then heads out into the French countryside to dispose of them. Only then will he inherit the fortune himself. She early on settles her will with her lawyer, Georges Hautcourt - an aged, eccentric old friend of hers - stating that she wishes the "faithful" Edgar to look after her beloved cats until they die.
On an autumn day in Paris, a mother cat named Duchess and her three kittens ― Marie, Berlioz and Toulouse ― live in the mansion of retired opera singer Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, along with her English butler, Edgar Balthazar. Today, while the film is very iconic, it is seen as a modest success by the Disney company. While the film gained overall favorable reviews and a solid box office performance, it did not match the earlier success of 101 Dalmatians or The Jungle Book. The film is noted for being along with The Jungle Book ( 1967) the last film project to be approved by Walt Disney himself, as he died in late 1966, ten months before the film was released. The film's basic idea- an animated romantic musical comedy about talking cats in France -had previously been used in the UPA animated feature Gay Purr-ee.ĭisney began production of a sequel, The Aristocats II, in December 2005, set to release in 2007, but production was cancelled in early 2006. The title is a pun on the word aristocrats. The 20th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, the film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after the butler Edgar catnaps them to gain his mistress' fortune, which was meant to go to them. The album as a whole, like all Jane's Addiction material, has its moments of both anthemic glory (1986's "Mountain Song") and dippy pretentiousness (1987's "My Cat's Name Is Maceo"), but Kettle Whistle probably won't leave most fans optimistic about future releases.Robin Hood Source The Aristocats (also stylized as The AristoCats) is a 1970 animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released on December 24, 1970. The juxtaposition of old and new doesn't illustrate a bright future for the reformed Jane's Addiction: Next to the 1988 demo of "Ocean Size" and 1991's steel-drum-enhanced live version of "Jane Says," the new "So What!" and eight-minute, go-nowhere title track sound pretty tepid. Its first release is Kettle Whistle, a spotty mish-mash with two new tracks, a few leftover outtakes and demos, and a bunch of old live tracks. That said, Jane's Addiction is back, of course, with Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea assuming bass duties. The past few years have brought about the painful de-evolution of Lollapalooza into an ever-more-bastardized parody of its former self (Tool? Korn?), and even Farrell seems like something of a caricature these days.
But as of late 1997, the no-longer-defunct band's impact has been dulled: Imitators abound and Farrell's two albums with Porno For Pyros run from fair to middling, with 1996's Good God's Urge offering few highlights. There's no denying the influence and cultural significance of Jane's Addiction, from its two remarkable studio albums (1988's Nothing's Shocking, 1990's Ritual De Lo Habitual) to frontman Perry Farrell's founding and subsequent headlining of the Lollapalooza festival in 1991.
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