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...real message in your cartoon depicting the ABC logo in hot pursuit of NBC and CBS [Sept. 5] was not who was chasing whom, but that all three were heading downhill...
...improve the soundtracks. Symphonic music was to be the answer. Because people flocked like locusts to see films, they provided an ideal medium for stimulating the interests of millions in classical music. Several films in which he personally appeared became classics. One of them, the elaborate animated cartoon Fantasia, featured music by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mussorgsky, Schubert and Dukas, and won for him a special award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. On top of that, it won him a place in the fond childhood memory of thousands...
DIED. Clarence Daniel Batchelor, 89, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist syndicated by the New York Daily News; in Deep River, Conn. Batchelor won his 1937 Pulitzer for a cartoon depicting war as a prostitute with a death's-head, saying to a European youth, "Come on in. I'll treat you right. I used to know your daddy...
...left out its essential ingredient-compassion. Mary Hartman presented its admittedly loony characters with such affection that audiences cared about them and even identified with their failings. Soap contemptuously presents its people as either stupid or conniving or cruel or some hybrid thereof. With so many unpleasant cartoon figures on the screen, Soap's potentially affecting sexual shenanigans devolve into mean-spirited locker-room jokes. It is not Soap's desire to lather on the sex that lands the series in hot water but its insistence on isolating sex from humanity that makes it look dirty...
...habits or to spoil the debut of a rival's series. In the first week of the new season, NBC will present the first of six Laugh-In specials; in the weeks that follow, there will be a four-bout evening of heavyweight boxing, a Doonesbury cartoon special and The Godfather Saga, a nine-hour, four-night extravaganza combining both movies and some outtake footage too. ABC plans a Star Wars show based on the making of the movie, while CBS is preparing a string of shows devoted to its own 50th anniversary...