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...those of Johnny Hart's estimated 100 million readers who hadn't tuned in for a while, the Easter Sunday edition of his caveman cartoon B.C. may have come as a bit of a shock. The characters were familiar; but B.C. and the Cute Chick were watching the sun set behind a very large cross. As the sun dipped, the cross's shadow extended until it enveloped them. The shadow, Hart explains, was done in blood red to indicate Christ's sacrifice on the cross. The Chick and B.C. were now drawn in white because "His blood has...made...
Some of the usual suspects won't jump in. Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League told the Post that the cartoons, though "exclusionary" of Jews, shouldn't be pulled. Barry Lynn, head of People for the Separation of Church and State, says, "If I don't like a cartoon, I ignore it. Personally, I would rather they get rid of Mark Trail...
...filmed with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner five years later. So who needs another King and I movie? Kids, apparently. So here is an animated feature that expands and dumbs down the story. There's some kung fu, a Jafar-style villain with satanic powers, a cartoon menagerie (funny monkey, majestic leopard, etc.), and lame comedy with a crudely drawn, Buddha-shaped fall guy. It's all needless--and harmless. But even with pretty, painterly backgrounds and the eternal lilt of the songs, this film has a limited target audience: six-year-old boys who want to be Michael Crawford...
...accomplished polyglot in Romance languages, never managed to master more than the rudiments of the Finno-Urdic language of the Magyars. The first word came when my friend was sitting in a cafe. The waiter hushed patrons to listen to a radio report. "Belgrade," he said, and blew a cartoon explosion through his teeth. Over Wednesday afternoon, as the first reports of NATO attacks filtered in, the city became a menacing presence, its attitude towards the NATO action impossible to pin down. There were fears of reprisal against Americans from Serbian neighborhoods in Budapest. I received the call from Budapest...
...then there are the supporting characters--amazingly transformed into walking and talking jokes and little more. Judge glaringly neglects these personages, especially Gibbons' buddies at Initech, Samir (Ajay Naidu) and the nominally cursed Michael Bolton (David Herman). The cast of Office Space is, essentially, a cast of cartoon characters or caricatures, only two of which arguably come off: Lumberg and Milton (Steven Root), a pathetic co-worker at Initech who is bound for disgruntled postal worker or serial killer status...