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...identity, autokinetic kitchen utensils and finally Joan's celestial levitation. Director Marshall W. Mason moves all the UFOs and the splendid cast at a rocketing pace. The words are manic-puns, syllogisms, answer-and-question games, in that order. Some scenes are animated versions of Feiffer's cartoon strips. Basically one-line throwaways, they lack dramatic continuity, but they sputter with hilarity...
...this particular rabbit had a fast line of back talk, a keen sense of irony and an indomitable lust for survival. Cartoon heroes, if you think about it, tend to be victims. Either that or insufferable, like Mickey Mouse. Only Bugs Bunny managed to triumph in his struggles against an assortment of splenetic aggressors without ever getting smug...
Simpson's cartoon shows a barefoot
After 35 years of tracking down big stories for the Flash, Girl Reporter Brenda Starr has finally tracked down her man. The funny-papers heroine, still a red-haired beauty of 23, last week exchanged wedding vows with dashing, eye-patched Basil St. John on the cartoon page of 150 newspapers. To celebrate, Starr Creator Dale Messick, 69, joined with some 125 well wishers for a mock reception in Washington...
Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers came to offer advice; Priscilla of Boston, who PEOPLE designed Tricia Nixon's wedding gown, put on a fashion show; and Ellen Proxmire, wife of Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, brought a four-tiered wedding cake. Cartoon fans, take heart. Before the evening's end, Messick assured all present that Brenda would stick to her old newspaper beat for some time to come. After all, explained Dale, "she didn't marry a rich...