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...this is an exhibit that exemplifies the statement "Less is More." In Jill Reynolds' own words regarding The Shape of Breath, "It's about the three-dimensionality of language and breath--that those things exist in space, that [they are] not just flat text on a page or a cartoon balloon. Language has form and substance also; [it] exists like little bodies also." So make the trek down to MIT and watch as Jill Reynolds and her assistants make language come alive. You might never look at your sourcebook the same way again...
...Saturday Night Live made fun of Chelsea's hair and braces. The numerous late night talk shows couldn't stop joking about her looks. The culmination of this relentless sarcasm was a cartoon in the Los Angeles Times that viciously mocked her appearance. Thankfully, this cartoon provoked protest. In total, 500 people wrote demanding that Chelsea be left alone. Even parodies of Amy Carter hadn't focused on her looks. And the media realized that a thirteen-year-old child, whoever her parents may be, should be left alone...
Other treats in the festival include the first Twenty and Sylvester cartoon, entitled "Birdy and the Beast." Sylvester looks very primitive in his pre-lisp days. The law of gravity is defied again when Sylvester takes to the air after Tweety, but, true to cartoon tradition, only after he realizes that he is flying does he plummet to the ground...
...selections even exhibits distinct elements of post-modernism. If Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of An Author is meta-theater, then "Duck Amuck" is the first meta-cartoon. Daffy is denied scenery, erased, and put through all sorts of animated torture until he demands to know "who is responsible for this!" The perpetrator turns out to be Bugs Bunny, who sits at the animator's table and says to the audience, "Ain't I a stinker...
...weakest short in the festival is "Carrotblanca," made in 1995. Compared with the other "classic" cartoons, this "Casablanca" parody is tame, functioning more as a showcase of characters than as a pure comedy. The animators were so busy trying to maximize the cartoon's appeal by working everyone--Bugs, Sylvester, Tweety, Yosemite Sam, People Pew and the others--into a tenminute short that the gags are neglected...