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For the occasional longerterm renter in Prague, we have the perfectly placed private, quiet, great apartment that may be for you!
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<- Charles Bridge
<- The historic Malá strana
Heart of Prague!
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It's right in the Malá Strana, the heart of old Prague, right up against a gorgeous park, steps from tram transport to all of the city. Two tramstops to a Hypermarket,Shopping Mall, and 2 Multiplex movies.
Walking distance to most of the historic sites.
It's a newly made 5th – floor apartment we own and have fully furnished. Of course there’s an elevator, all the comforts, and a balcony above the trees.
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Large, fully equipped kitchen/dining area, with balcony and woods view
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Plenty of storage room
Massive corner tub!
Woodsy view |
Solid oak bed
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With a living room, media room, and one bedroom
it’s best for a single or a settled couple.
It’s in a prime, very-hard-to-get-into location, in the historic heart of Prague.
If you’re interested, call or email me.
+420-728 558 801
genedeitch@yahoo.com
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Anatomy of an Oscar
Only one person gets the Oscar each year for an animated short film. Of the five films I directed which were nominated for an Oscar, one of them actually won the golden statuette! It was a film titled “MUNRO.” Many people made important, significant contributions to this little 6-minute cartoon film. Here is a list of the actual creators of MUNRO:
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| Director, and creator of the project: |
Gene Deitch |
| Author of the story, dialog, and storyboard: |
Jules Feiffer |
| Primary production studio: |
Gene Deitch Associates, Inc. NewYork |
| Production Manager: |
Ken Drake |
| Layout artist: |
Al Kouzel |
| Voice actors: |
Howard Morris
Seth Deitch
Marie Deitch
Jules Feiffer |
| Animation & post-production studio: |
Bratři v triku, Prague |
| Director: |
Gene Deitch |
| Production Manager: |
Zdenka Najmanová |
| Animation Director: |
Václav Bedřich |
| Animators: |
Zdenek Smetana
Mirek Kačena
Milan Klikar
Jindřich Barta
Věra Kudrnová
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| Background Painter: |
Bohumil Šiška |
| Music composer and conductor: |
Štěpán Koníček |
| Recording Engineer: |
Karel Jakeš |
| Sound effects: |
Gene Deitch
Tony Schwartz
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| Sound mixer: |
František Černý |
| Camera Operator: |
Zdenka Hajdová |
| Film Editor: |
Zdenka Navratilová |
| Financial backer & Executive Producer: |
William L. Snyder |
Also, there were several assistents, inbetweeners, and cel inkers and painters, contributors who almost never get name credit on short film titles.
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SOME FRESH DEITCH PITH:
MEN!!! It’s considered a bad sign if your forget to zip up your fly, but I consider it an even worse sign if you forget to un-zip it!
(From the Gene Deitch vast lore of perpetual wisdom)
I CONSIDER MYSELF TO BE A LOYAL EARTHLING, YET I FEEL NO KINSHIP TO OUR EXOSKELETAL INHABITANTS. CALL IT SPECIESISM, BUT CRABS GIVE ME THE CREEPS, AND BUGS BUG ME. ANY DECENT CREATURE SHOULD HAVE ITS BONES ON THE INSIDE, JUST LIKE US NORMAL FOLKS.
“No personal right to bear arms!”
At long last a U.S Federal Court has read the constitution, and proclaimed the obvious verdict. The judges have finally read the first half of the one-sentence-long 2nd ammendment, which the NRA studiously avoids dealing with:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the unanimous ruling December 5, 2002, that the 2nd Ammendment’s right to bear arms is intended to maintain effective state militias, and is not an individual right! I’ve been nagging this point for years, but who am I?
Judge Stephen Reinhardt nails the point clearly: “The historical record makes it plain that the ammendment was not adopted in order to afford rights to individuals with respect to private gun ownership or possession.”
Of course not! The 2nd ammendment is only one simple sentence, and to my eyes is as clear as the view through a telescopic gunsight.
But the National Rifle association has only the second half of that sentence emblazoned over their portal, and has hammered that fragment into our heads for 130 years.
Will the United States Supreme Court now finally bite the bullet and do their constitutional duty? Will the National Rifle Association finally give up the ghosts of the thousands of people who have been killed because the universal possession of handguns, and even automatic military weapons in America? Hah!
Fat chance. The NRA, with its vast financial resources, will doubtless do everything possible and impossible, with their high-powered tommy-gun tactics, to keep the case from ever getting to the High Court. But is there now some room for hope?
Always carefully read instructions. I recently bought a ceiling lamp from IKEA and the instructions carried this bold-face warning: “Important! This lamp must be grounded. Be certain to connect the ground wire!” However, as is normal with lamps, it had no ground wire at all.
From the same IKEA I also bought a set of Christmas tree lamps, which had a an ON/OFF swicth connected to the wiring. The istructions read as follows:
“To turn the lights on, please push the switch to ON.
To turn the lights off, please push the switch to OFF.”
Those were the complete instructions, clear and easy to understand.
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Why should we cripple the treasure of our minds?
The bottom line on drug taking, I think, was written by neuroscientist Susan Greenfield.
She wrote that moves to decriminalize marijuana are based on “the greatest myth of all” – the belief that cannabis is essentially harmless. “Having studied the effects of so-called soft drugs on the brain, I’m convinced that pot smokers are literally blowing their minds.
We’re starting to live in a drug culture, where instead of having fulfilled and interesting lives, people seek oblivion from the stresses of life through a chemical route. Drugs interfere with the careful interplay of chemical and electrical impulses between cells, throwing out the balance of the brain… The drug impairs memory and coordination. These effects may be long-term and irreversible.” For me, that says it, but the question about drugs, tobacco, alcohol, cult religions, and other health, social and other questions, is not legal but educational. We had bad experience once, trying to outlaw liquor. The only answer is to properly educate people so they can make their own informed choices: whether to befog or clear their minds.
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