Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's Nose. Is Astérix meant to be De Gaulle? "I cannot stop people from seeing political analogies where I merely intended to be funny," says Goscinny. Yet a recent cartoon in the French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné pictured Astérix with De Gaulle's nose; he and Premier Georges "Pompidouix" are shouting "Amérix go home!"-not to Romans and their "S.P.Q.R." but to foreign troops with "U.S." on their helmets. Le Monde Columnist Robert Escarpit explains the Astérix cult this way: "These invincible Gauls, barricaded in their...
...luck, up popped Walt Disney, who wanted Julie to play Mary Poppins and Walton to do the set and costume-design. Julie was dubious. Recalls Julie's pal Carol Burnett: "She asked me, 'Do you think I ought to? Go to work for Walt Disney? The cartoon person?' " Carol assured her that Disney did indeed do other things besides cartoons. Later, Julie got a telephone call from Poppins' author, Pamela Travers. "P. Travers here," said P. Travers briskly. "Speak to me. Can you be tough? Can you be tender...
...innocence that does not mix well with the times. Walt Disney was such a man, molding myths and spinning fantasies in which innocence always reigned. Literally billions of people responded out of some deeply atavistic well of recognition, and they lavished their gratitude on him. Soldiers carried the cartoon-figure emblems of his creations on their uniforms and their war planes. Kings and dictators saw them as symbols of some mysterious quality of the American character. David Low, the great British cartoonist, called Disney "the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo." Harvard and Yale gave him honorary degrees...
...last week of cancer at 65, Disney was no longer simply the fundamental primitive imagist (the psychedelic merchants preempted that role), but a giant corporation whose vast assembly lines produced ever slicker products to dream by. Many of them, mercifully, will be forgotten, but the essential Disney creations, the cartoon comics, the full-length animated features such as Fantasia, Snow White, Bambi, Pinocchio, Cinderella-even that fantasy-filled 300 acres of dream puff called Disneyland-will remain as monumental components of American culture...
...APPLE TREE spoofs Adam and Eve and other celebrated romances, including the requited love of a slavey for Hollywood stardom. Despite the saucily mocking presence of Barbara Harris, the evening consists of flabby satire, cartoon comedy and plop...