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...most popular British TV comedy series of the 90s, "Mr. Bean." That show displayed the misadventures of a character who can be described as a combination of Charlie Chaplin and Woody Woodpecker. Indeed, there is a definite cartoonish quality to the silly, frivolous and mischievous schtick Atkinson perpetrates. Also cartoon-like is the inconsequential, episodic action; the audience can sit back and enjoy the mashugina machinations without bothering to worry about property damage or hurt feelings. There is a universally appealing joy in watching Atkinson interact, child-like, with the world around him and doing most of it destructively. Attaching...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big-Screen `Bean' Doomed by Weak Plot | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Only in a highly liberal city would any of those people ever see the inside of City Hall. Only in a highly eccentric city would the two of those people most like cartoon characters serve the longest terms...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Election Day Bedfellows | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...requisite convenience-store holdup and multiple murder to a strident Ennio Morricone score (with the banshee harmonica from his Sergio Leone westerns). There's also a waitress named Flo. Stone swathes all this menace in his patented white-hot style: slo-mo, echoing voices, flashbacks that flick like lightning, cartoon sound effects (when the Mustang is mentioned, you'll hear a horse whinny). A streetwise Indian (Jon Voight) tells Bobby, "Your lies are old, but you tell 'em pretty good." Same with the film--a wily, parched comedy of really bad manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURAL BORN THRILLER | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...said that HRMN is working on a number of projects this year, including a new first-year film, an "ER/NYPD Bluestyle" drama called "The Ivory Tower," and a computer animated cartoon, "Yard Tails...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Media Network Elects New President After Odotei Leaves for Hollywood | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

...small role Macpherson is a mere cartoon character (her name in the film: Mickey Morse). But Bart the grizzly, who starred in 1989's The Bear, deserves a Best Supporting Animal award for his ferocious work. Baldwin is persuasive in his familiar persona, the cagey sleazebag. And as the polymath plutocrat, Hopkins manages to make erudition sexy; a library intelligence and a steely intellect make him Baldwin's ideal adversary. The Edge merits a modest cheer as an action film that celebrates not brute force but survival of the smartest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NORTH STARS | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

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