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...hammy acting; the mise en scène angles each shot like a schoolroom pointer. Moonlighting undercuts the genre's stylistic totalitarianism with deadpan comedy, and reveals its message through vignettes, moods, gestures, faces. Jeremy Irons' dour, handsome face suggests the first strokes of a political cartoon from an East European underground newspaper. Nowak is the story's narrator, its star and its sensibility, and Skolimowski challenges the viewer both to sympathize with the hopelessness of Nowak's situation and to judge his complicity in it-to be Nowak and to see him clearly. Irons...
...strip, Pulitzer-Prizewinning Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has skewered politics and society for twelve years. And there lies the trouble. After guiding the lives of such outspoken, '60s-scarred characters as Joanie Caucus, B.D., Uncle Duke, and his own alter ego, Michael J. Doonesbury, through some 4,300 cartoon strips, Trudeau, 34, thinks it is time to refill the inkwell. "I need a breather," he confesses. "Investigative cartooning is a young man's game." Though the cartoonist will be off from the beginning of next year through the fall of 1984, he is not really abandoning the residents...
...coroners, occasionally nodding in approval and murmuring, "Hmm, haven't seen that before." The violence in this vigilante farce is too preposterous to make anyone wince, or to remind teen-agers of the real high schools they will be entering this week. Life is different outside the cartoon corridors of Contact High. And nobody but a connoisseur of trash ever got an education from a bad movie...
...predated his birth. But members of his immediate family are judged in the same way: "Dick Bowden, Todd's father, looked remarkably like a movie and TV actor named Lloyd Bochner." When Todd finds himself in a dilemma, he mentally goes to the movies: "He thought of a cartoon character with an anvil suspended over its head...
...found an apt role for ancient John Carradine: the basso voice of the Great Owl, fierce solon of the forest. Jeremy the Crow is a splendidly funny creation, all good will and ill wind, and Dom DeLuise speaks the part so perfectly that he deserves to become the first cartoon "voice" to be nominated for an acting Oscar...