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Although it is all very bippity-boppity-boo and cynics may scoff at those giant cartoon characters bobbing about on that enormous stage, the kids love it. So do most of their parents. In Chicago, the big people were right in there with the little people, singing the Mickey Mouse song, wearing Mickey Mouse hats and scrambling to shake hands with the Disney characters as they moved through the audience...
Since reversal is the key to Charlie's prominence, it is only proper for him to pull the ultimate switch in films. Formerly, animated cartoon characters -such as Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny -would begin their existence in the movies, then spin off into comics. Charlie was born back in 1949 as a newspaper feature. Only now, after six TV specials and a happily long-running off-Broadway musical, has he backed into a full-length animated cartoon, A Boy Named Charlie Brown...
...likes two girls at once and "always takes his clothes off when he eats"-not to mention Roz the Meter Maid, Tony the Indian, Joe the Wop, Beppo the Dwarf and a lion with body odor. Yet the book is funny, particularly on the sadistic Tom-and-Jerry cartoon level of violence, because the characters aren't real and nothing is really at stake but a few laughs...
...CENTER of both this production and its plot is David Hammond, who serves as stage director while also playing Dr. Filke, the vengeful young man who is the focus of all the intrigue. Outfitted in tails and cane. Hammond looks like a Beerbohm cartoon for the endpapers of a Firbank novel. Little wonder, then, that he is exactly into the spirit of the piece...
...Indignant Eye by Ralph E. Shilces. 439 pages. Beacon. $12.50. From Hieronymus Bosch to Picasso, the author explores the lives and times of famous artists and the hot issues that caused them to turn their hands to political cartoon, savage caricature and posterish polemic. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations do justice to the likes of Jacques Callot, Lucas Cranach, George Cruikshank, Daumier, Courbet, Rouault, Käthe Kollwitz and George Grosz. Fascinating, especially for an age of rage, despair and pungent partisanship...