Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joke continued, as this cartoon character--a pudgy, infantile man in a red hat that made him look like a blind, suntanned Santa Claus in shades--gained nationwide notoriety as the spiritual counselor to the World Trade Center bombers. Yet the sheik remained free in the wake of the bombing, even though, aside from his circumstantial involvement with the bombers, he was an illegal alien...
...especially when moving as if in a back brace -- Goulet is two decades too old. Patricia Kies gushes out the girl Queen's politically incorrect ignorance and submission while appearing old enough to play Hamlet's mother. As Lancelot, Steve Blanchard sounds like the voice-over from a cartoon and cavorts with an odd hip swivel, as if ready at any moment to start dancing the twist. James Valentine's doubling of Merlyn and Pellinore is a camp extravaganza of twitches, nods, snorts and doddering. The best to be said for this Camelot is that it attracts audiences...
Before it rolls over and plays dead, Family Dog has a couple of lessons to impart. First, TV cartoons (especially The Simpsons) are largely dialogue- driven; a more stylized, visual cartoon like Family Dog is probably doomed without the sort of animation care that TV budgets don't permit. Second, big- name filmmakers venturing into TV need to do more than simply lend their big names. Burton and Spielberg, it seems, did little for Family Dog except use their clout to get it on the air. One expected more...
Since Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. in 1924, Hollywood has often toyed with the looking-glass motif, though never on Hero's mammoth scale, where so many cars crash that the audience becomes rubberneckers. Schwarzenegger, a live- action cartoon in the flesh, and McTiernan, who made the brains explode on time in Die Hard, might seem just the team to send up the dizzy conventions of the action genre. At first they do so, smartly. A wounded cop mutters, "Two days to retirement," and promptly dies. And Arnold's version of Hamlet is even funnier than Mel Gibson...
CINEMA Arnold battles the rumormongers in Last Action Hero. Un Coeur en Hiver takes a close look at a cold heart. TELEVISION A cartoon dog has its long- promised day. THEATER The cult classic She Loves Me is revealed as a classic, period. BOOKS Arthur Ashe's moving, strangely defensive memoir...