Word: barts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood's summer officially began last weekend with the box-office sure thing Maverick, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and the lead from the '50s TV version, old Bret (or was it Bart?) Maverick himself, James Garner. This week a live-action take on The Flintstones debuts, with John Goodman and Elizabeth Perkins as Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell as Barney and Betty Rubble. Later this summer, Lassie will bark her way back into your heart, and Wyatt Earp will gallop across the wide screen. The Little Rascals, based on the old movie shorts...
Other protagonists also suffer from one-sidedness. The owner of the Jean-Bart mine, who in the book is painted as a decent man sacrificing much to ameliorate the conditions of his workers, comes across in the movie as merely another dirty capitalist, while the daughter of the owner of Le Voreux is not in the film shown to be sufficiently repellent. Depardieu, in the role of Maheud, is the only principal who, as usual plays his part convincingly, and, for the most part, Zola's purely verbal descriptions far surpass the living, breathing renditions of the movie...
...headquarters in Santa Monica, California, this summer, and MCA- Universal is pondering an expansion of the retail activities that are currently confined to its theme parks in California and Florida. But perhaps all the newcomers should ponder the fate of other studio retail ventures. At the apogee of Bart-mania, a Simpsons store opened in Los Angeles and quickly folded. Jay Ward, producer of Rocky and Bullwinkle, has a tiny store on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, but it is no cash cow or money moose. Hanna- Barbera (The Flintstones, The Jetsons) operated two Los Angeles stores but closed them after...
...They're reliable. "Animated characters don't get busted," says Groening, "and they don't get old." Maggie has not aged a day. Homer can't get much fatter or balder. Marge's bouffant will always look like a neatly trimmed blue fir. Bart frets about graduating from fourth grade, but fate and good ratings will keep him there for life. Lisa, the poor stranded sensitive intellectual, will never escape Springfield...
...They have heart. One of Brooks' cardinal rules: Let's not be afraid of emotion. The strongest episodes are those (like "Lisa's Substitute," "Homer Alone," "Like Father, Like Clown" and "Bart the Lover") that reveal the bedrock fondness, desperation and loyalty that bond this or any other frazzled clan. A viewer can feel awe at the show's cascading wit and still purr at the sweet, deep sentiment. Hail, Simpsons! May you live another 100 episodes at the same apex of quality...