Word: cartoon
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...true that a few other cartoon characters might try to claim Bart's place of honor. This century is gaily strewn with them, from Winsor McCay's benign Gertie the Dinosaur (cinema's first animated icon) to Fox's other cartoon glory, King of the Hill (whose Bobby Hill, all perfect circles and mute yearning, is the anti-Bart). The Warner menagerie--Bugs, Daffy, Tweety, Wile E. Coyote--energized three decades of Saturday matinees. And when cartoons invaded TV, creatures from Bullwinkle Moose to Tex Avery's Raid insects kept alive a hallowed comic tradition. Bart fits in snugly here...
That Bart is a cartoon character--a sheaf of drawings animated by smart writing and the unique vocal stylings of Nancy Cartwright--makes him both "real" and surreally supple. Cartoon figures can do more things, endure more knocks on the noggin, get away with more cool, naughty stuff than the rest of us who are animated only by a telltale heart. The face-offs of Bugs and Daffy in Chuck Jones' cartoons of the '50s involved many shotgun blasts and rearranged duckbills, but the humor and humiliation, the understanding of failure and resilience were instantly translatable to kids and adults...
MULAN (June 19). A girl becomes a woman warrior in this chow-mein cartoon: Chinese savor meets American-do. Now that industry analysts no longer expect every Disney animated feature to do $300 million domestic, they can appreciate the suave storytelling and cross-generational lure of a nice little epic like this. And accountants at the Mouse House can expect black ink, not Mulan rouge...
...better to go to a class you're actually interested in than to go to one whose professor was featured on "The Simpsons," Aftandilian said, referring to Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould, who was featured in an episode of the cartoon last fall...
...honest would deny that his show can be entertaining. But it is also--what are the right words? Horrible? Disgusting? It is disgusting because it parades real people before the mob as objects of ridicule. Of course, Springer says the show is "silly" and "outrageous" and a "cultural cartoon" and so shouldn't be taken too seriously. "Most people get the joke," says Steve Rosenberg, president of TV distribution for USA. "It's crazy and funny, like World Wrestling." He is quick to add that there's nothing fake about it--and that's exactly the problem. The Jerry Springer...