Word: cartoon
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...didn't even tell them that the very popular, and very good, Pixar cartoon Ratatouille lost out to a French movie about the troubles in Iran. (Though Persepolis, take my word for it, is funny.) By the time I'd got back to my office I had realized that we critics may give these awards to the winners, but we give them for ourselves. In fact, we're essentially passing notes to one another, admiring our connoisseurship at the risk of ignoring the vast audience that sees movies and the smaller one that reads...
...animation, Ratatouille won the award outright in Washington and from the National Board of Review. Boston gave the Pixar film a screenplay award, which rarely goes to a cartoon. But in L.A. it shared the L.A. prize with Persepolis, the biographic cartoon from the Iranian exile Marjane Satrapi. And the New York critics rebuffed Ratatouille - and The Simpsons Movie and Bee Movie and Beowulfand other ani-movies people have actually seen - with a first-ballot vote for Persepolis. An art-house film beat out movies that have already grossed nearly $1.5 billion dollars (or about 47 euros) worldwide...
...Unferth (John Malkovich). The faces have lines and creases, but they don't look lived in. This quibble subsides when Beowulf appears. The political drama of the palace is instantly amped up to mythical stature, and we can start appreciating the film for what is is: a live-action cartoon...
...line on this." Experience: Employment and Workplace Relations Minister since 2007 The son of an Armenian immigrant, Hockey has been salesman for the contentious Work Choices legislation since rising to the portfolio this year. The jolliest of Howard's ministers, who once parodied himself publicly as the cartoon ogre Shrek, Hockey has promised to resign if Labor predictions of further changes to industrial relations laws under a Howard government prove correct...
...southern black family of preachers, and others include gay Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson, political bigwig Dick Gephardt, and a woman whose daughter committed suicide after she came out.Interspersed throughout the families’ personal stories are clips of multiple Christian evangelicals preaching on the sinfulness of homosexuality, a cartoon explaining the science behind being gay, and a scene in which leading theologians debate the Bible’s stance on homosexuality.Karslake tapped two Harvard affiliates, Professor Peter J. Gomes ’68 and Reverend Irene Monroe (a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Divinity School), for their expertise.While working...