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...leaves him only barely sighted, though able to draw. His first opus after the operation is an antiwar parable, actually Thurber's The Last Flower, which the film makers have seen fit to animate. When Wilson's young stepdaughter visits him one day and sees the cartoon, her stammer is cured. Reconciliation with Terry can not be far behind...
...sagacity. There are three great books about foxes. Probably the best known is Beatrix Potter's Tale of Mister Tod, in which the protagonist proves to be fastidious but cowardly. A second, now unhappily out of print, is Alexander Sturm's The Problem Fox, a sly cartoon biography of a precocious animal named August who solves food mazes and learns to spell his name. Canadian Writer-Poet-Naturalist Sir Charles G.D. Roberts' Red Fox, written in 1905 and often reprinted, is the third...
...Apes (1971), have already taken in $135 million at box offices round the world and become the objects of a minor cult. Next month. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes will find a huge readymade audience of ape addicts, including many intellectuals who enjoy the series' broad, cartoon-like satire of human faults. Keeping both the cultists and drive-in trade happy has taxed the ingenuity of the creators. The second film was planned as the finale, says Scriptwriter Paul Dehn, and "they told me to destroy not only the entire cast but the entire world, which...
...surprise to head comic fans to learn that, on seeing what became of Fritz in the film, Crumb asked to have his name removed from all publicity. Meanwhile, the movie, largely because of Fritz's bathtub scene, got an X rating, something of a coup for the animated cartoon, the last bastion of pudency...
Died. Frank Tashlin, 59, Hollywood director who built his career on the sight gag and slapstick chase; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Originally a cartoon animator, Tashlin graduated to comedy writing in the 1930s and '40s, and to directing in the '50s (The Glass Bottom Boat, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...