I get that these men can get laid regularly but does it need to be thrown in our face and mentioned in every chapter? I feel like also that not all guys who play sports hook up all the damn time. How they are all these manwhore’s who can only really think about having sex. As always, I hate the way the author writes men in sports. I don’t necessarily love any one character but I did find myself more interested in the dynamic of Jake’s team than with the Briar U gang.ġ. I know this is the Briar U series but honestly, the Harvard guys stole the show in this book. I almost shed a tear or two towards the end and I really didn’t expect that to happen.Ĥ. Also, the development between Brenna and her Dad? So damn good. I liked that she talked about the inequality in sports journalism and I like how despite that, she never stopped trying.ģ. I liked that we got to see Brenna deal with trying to get an internship and just learning more about her ambitions in general. I feel like they really complement each other and are exactly what the other one needs.Ģ.
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All the same, this anecdote from Kinney sounds apocryphal. And certainly a number of reoccurring characters appeared in propaganda shorts. I find it interesting that Walt mentions that he didn't "reuse characters." Was that really true? Off the top of my head, I can think of Hannah's No Hunting, where Bambi and his mother briefly appear. The latter seemed awfully lacking in most of the shorts directed during that decade. Of all the Disney shorts directors in the 1940s, Kinney seemed the most aware of timing and, especially, pacing. You can find the first of those interviews, from 1973, at this link.įrom Will Coates: Thank you for posting another fantastic interview. I recorded several interviews with Kinney, the Disney director who is perhaps best known for his Goofy sports cartoons. October 30, 2015: A publicity still for How to Fish (1942), one of the first of Jack Kinney's many Goofy cartoons. 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