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March 31, 2005
Aping Oop
Iowa novelist and filmmaker Max Allan Collins debuts a 3 1/2-year labor at the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival: "Muscatine novelist and filmmaker Max Allan Collins has completed a documentary on a subject sure to interest many Iowans - cartoonist Vincent T. Hamlin and his famous comic strip "Alley Oop." Caveman: V.T. Hamlin & Alley Oop, the Des Moines Register reports, considers how the " dinosaur-laden strip has been credited with inspiring everything from The Flintstones to Jurassic Park. ... "The documentary is chock-full of pop art images—there's a lot of eye candy," Collins said." [There was a glitch in clearing rights to the 1950s novelty song, "Alley Oop," so Collins riffed.] Ever the resourceful one, Collins called in a friend from California and they wrote a similar sounding song called "Alley Oop Rides Again" that has the same groove."
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