Word: barbera
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...jubilant. I was about to truly experience American culinary culture--even if it was an imitation. With baited breath I grabbed the plastic two-pack of "Zoinks!" The name sounded like something Shaggie would say to Scooby-Doo. Suddenly fond memories of Hanna-Barbera cartoons merged with a long repressed desire to come up with a "creamy filling theory" better than "It's just born there...
...planet-wide TV empire and the MGM film library, with its 2,200 movies, including such crowd-pleasing classics as Citizen Kane, Casablanca and Gone With the Wind. Last week his Turner Broadcasting System announced the acquisition of a new mother lode of small-screen gems: Hanna- Barbera Productions, creators of the animated adventures of the prehistoric Flintstones, the futuristic Jetsons and the Great American Mammal, Yogi Bear...
...tripled the size of its theatrical-animation unit since 1984 and ventured into TV cartoons for the first time. The busiest newcomer is Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, which has produced cartoon features like An American Tail and maintains an animation unit of more than 300 in London. Even Hanna-Barbera, the K mart of TV cartooning (The Flintstones, The Smurfs), is upgrading quality with such features as The Endangered, an ecological adventure film that will cost $14 million and take a Disney-like 2 1/2 years to produce...
...Trust. Zbigniew (Dick) Niemczycki, 43, a Warsaw-educated engineer who moved to the U.S. in 1977, has returned to Poland as an executive with SerVaas, an Indianapolis investment firm. The company's joint ventures in Poland include a fishing fleet and a home-building enterprise, as well as Hanna-Barbera's largest animation studio, where Polish artists draw the cels for Yogi Bear and Flintstones cartoons...
...Barbera's dilemma is increasingly common among American women. Until recently, owning a fur coat, usually a mink, was an unquestioned emblem of luxury and social status. But lately a growing cadre of animal-rights activists has been aggressively denouncing such garments as "sadist symbols" that, they say, require the deaths of some 70 million helpless creatures each year (about 50 minks for each coat). That emotional claim has touched off a bitter battle that pits the animal lobby against fur owners and an increasingly embattled fur industry. So nasty have the hostilities become that in some cities around...