Welcome to Fine Tuning With Through Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the industry you can

regularly read over on the rap and whose musings on the mission possible movies you can listen to

on the light diffuse podcast. He and I are recording this week's show on Sunday, March 19, 2023,

and I know it's been a while since it shows and this is totally not Drew's fault.

I had to go out to California to do some work. In fact, we had a lovely meeting on what was it?

Saturday? Yeah, last Saturday. Yes, you know, and the highlight of the meal was I got the one thing

on the menu at Bob's Big Boy that I thought would be helpful. I got the vegetable quesadilla and

took one bite of it and it landed on the front of my shirt, which by the way I'm on my third

trip to the wash trying to get that stay now. You know, you were punished for it. I told

I told Len that I was sorry I didn't get to see him when he was out here too and I said the

you and I met at a diner, you know, for a very intense hour or so and I said it was basically like

deniro and pachino meeting and heat. That was basically our... There we go. Before the big

robbery. Before the big robbery. I love that boy. Aren't they doing a series or a prequel?

Well, there was a novel that was written that's excellent. That's right. That came out last summer.

Yeah, they've got to do something with it. It's too good not to. I mean, it sort of continues

the story and is also a flashback to before the events of the movie. It's really great. So if

you are looking for something to read, look at heat too. Okay, I will chase that down. But of

course, the day after that, March 12, was of course the Academy Awards and to the surprise of

absolutely no one who's been paying attention to what's going on in the industry. Guillermo

Doutoro took home the Oscar for Best Animate feature and the boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse

took home the Academy Award for Best Animate Chart. How did we feel about this, Drew?

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