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am-u rp !- the Greedy. Welcome to the Toffy Pit! "), he lifts a banana-spl it hot and twirls a candy cone in the best side-show huckster trad ition, part corny barker, po rt Joel Grey in Cabaret m.e. "The Taffy Pit is my doma in" shows us a br ief image of the G reedy as the Prince of Darkness, banana horns poi nting ma iestically from behi nd a regal (but slippery) head. " I eat a ll the time--except when I'm asleep," and the shrinking mouth has iust enough time to yawn as several gooey a rms stretch and disappear in the goo. The Camel is sure that the monster has hod enough to eat "with a ll this stuff around," but the Greedy reappears' unexpected ly from the other side of the screen with a gigantic telescop ic eye w hich, like the "NO!" the Greedy screams, is truly frightening in its sudden ferocity. Hawkins wonted to "go further than th is" in his an imation of the G reedy's song , and Wiliams enthusiastically told him to go ahead. (This is another example of Wi li ams's d irecting technique--:-allowing the animators he trusts complete freedom to create. Hawkins says it reminds hi m of the way the business began in the early days of maki ng cartoons, "One guy would do the front port of a picture, another guy the middle, another the last . It mode them participate in the creation of someth ing. ") You can give me candy, coHan candy,
Choc'late bar or lollipop I Fill me up on ice cream, Dripping fudge sauce, BuHerscotch and nuts that never stop. Undulating and rising out o f the amorphous 路 toffy comes a rump to be reckoned with, encosed in a gigantic girdle that is held together (iust barely) by licorice cords (Drawing N umber 80), an enormous and rogynous bellydancer grinds into shope. The Greedy, now a honeyed-hermaphrod ite, wears a Carmen Mi rando frui t- hot and turns slowly, sensually around, sticky nngers gliding over on invisible tabletop. As this cupcoke drag queen continues wh irl ing (Drawings Number 102, 113, 143, 147), a magical force draws fron the Pit cotton condy, lo llipops and chocolate bars wh ich fly in on arbit around the singing blancmange . This is the port of the sequence Hawkins likes the least, because it is the only manifestation of the Greedy that does not change. And Hawkins is soon done w ith it, plunging the creature into the Pit a fter a sexy shower in d ri ppi ng fudge sauce. The n" xt su rprise comes from squashi ng a handful of toffy into several huge bananas in synchron ization w ith the lyrics, Squash me a banana drowned in Wily tuHi-fruHi by the score. Very excited now, the Greedy grabs onto the " Tutti-Frutt;" line as he bo unds into the air with on ice-cream-cone nose .
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