Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...File and Forget," an extended account of the donderheads in the book-publishing business, could do with some more rehearsal. So could the short opening and closing numbers, the "Word Dances," in which couples whirl about the stage, freezing in various attitudes as one character or another delivers a cartoon caption. Every unscheduled shuffle or concession to momentum is instantly apparent and instantly annoying...
...intellectual content of Playboy is at least on a par with the pretentiously overstated content of a TIME Essay. The prurient appeal of an overripe foldout is no worse than the peekaboo enticement of gossip about "People." The humor of a Playboy cartoon is often more sophisticated than the cleverness of TIMEse...
Lifted off the newspaper page and on to an off-Broadway stage the boys and girls of Peanuts are only tepidly amusing. The show consists of skits and tag lines from the cartoon series, a revue never more than thimble full. Like Punch and Judy, the characters cannot grow, but merely repeat themselves. There is always something affected about grown men and women pretending to be children and dogs, but this cast manages it with a minimum of annoyance. Peanuts is for devout fans, yes; for theater fun-seekers...
...stage, Succeed succeeded by being as broad as it was wide. A pastel-colored animated cartoon of contemporary big business, it musically chronicled the rise of a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed rodent, J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse), who won the rat race by running just fast enough to keep up with his boss (Rudy Vallee...
...interested in your review of MacBird [March 3]. I was especially interested in the photograph of the "L.BJ. cartoon" being used as a backdrop for the play...