Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grass Is Greener. A British comedy of manors is skillfully brought off by Gary Grant, as an earl who opens his stately home to the public and is cuckolded by Robert Mitchum, playing a cartoon American...
...cartoon appeared in The New Yorker several years ago depicting the grand council of a cannibal tribe seated around a fire. The chief was explaining: "We send out word that we're in a state of ferment. The Russians send technicians. Then the Americans send technicians. . . . When they're all here, we eat them...
...advertising agency, did not renew it, instead tried to negotiate a new one for fewer commercials. Y. & R. explained that even though televiewers tuned in to programs just to hear the Bert and Harry ad, they did not necessarily reach most beer drinkers. Since Piel's owns the cartoon's format, once their already prepared skits are run through they will either join the ranks of the permanently unemployed and unemployable or Bert and Harry will move over to new producers to continue at half speed. Bert and Harry's loyal viewers immediately began to complain. Answered...
...five years the softest sell on East Coast TV and radio opened with a gruff, bullying "Hello viewers, I'm Bert Piel and this is my brother Harry." Cartoon characters created by UPA (Mr. Magoo) and given voice by radio's Bob (Elliott) & Ray (Goulding), Boisterous Bert and Harried Harry were pitchmen for Piel's Beer-and invariably the pitch went awry. The lights failed during a taste-test, the man-in-the-street interview turned up a long-winded Piel's fan who would not let Bert get his motivational research questions in edgewise...
...Bates & Co. for Miles Laboratories (Alka Seltzer) on the cartoon series, The Flintstones: "There should be no reference to headache, upset stomach, or the taking of remedies to relieve same...