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...film the story of Noah? Heyman opted for a sketchy style of animation, with surrealistic clouds and waves, and cartoon rabbits and lions clambering aboard the ark. The budget did not permit construction of the ark nor the assembling of all God's creatures. For the Creation story, Heyman wove together spectacular color footage of the sun and stars, flowing lava, beasts on the Kenya highlands and fish and flora along an ocean floor. In Eden, Adam and Eve are discreetly nude, and without navels. Heyman insists that he will film every jot and tittle...
Double Duty. Whatever its problems, Disney has perfected one talent that other Hollywood fantasy factories envy: piggybacking. The familiar cartoon characters boost attendance at the theme parks, and the parks increase attendance at the movies. Though no one at Disney claims to be Walt's equal in artistry or dreaming, Card Walker has made Disney's characters do double duty as stars and as barkers to all the world. As a merchandising idea, it has proved to be almost as successful an inspiration as the original Mickey Mouse...
...Yourself Animated Cartoon Film Program. Ever wondered what was on the other side of Central Square besides the MIT geeks with pocket computers and the NECCO factory? Well, there's a little hole in the wall up Main St. from Central Square that shows movie shorts anb animations. They're called Off the Wall, and in living memory they've never failed to string together anything less than brilliant shorts. It's a coffeehouse-art gallery with a screen up in the corner, and the subway rumbles underneath every 20 or so; and what with the various exotic tea smells...
Other magazines have known how to deal with people of Agnew's ilk. Rolling Stone, for instance, accompanying Hunter Thompson's 1974 Watergate opus, "The Scum Also Rises," ran a Ralph Steadman cartoon depicting former Attorney-General John "this country is moving so far to the right you won't recognize it" Mitchell as a used condom in mid air, about to splash down. It could just as well have been Spiro; after all, he has as much credence as a year-old Samoa, you know, the kind that comes in five tropical colors. Agnew's been spouting...
...with the help of a heavy-hitting catcher named Leon Carter (James Earl Jones). An actor with the kind of power that can easily turn to bluster, Jones here is at his best; he makes Leon appropriately larger than life without ever letting him be come a sports-page cartoon...