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Many people think SCOTT ADAMS is Dilbert, the cartoon champ of mismanaged corporate employees. But in lots of ways the artist-writer is closer to Dogbert, Dilbert's power-mad canine, whose Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook is out this month. Both of them want to change the world. Dogbert aims to do it by training managers to avoid making decisions, calling more meetings and destroying employee morale. Adams, having conquered the cartoon world--his strip is in three-quarters of America's daily newspapers, and his first book, The Dilbert Principle, sold 1.2 million copies--is working...
...Mpath boasts software that lets players speak to friends and foes while they're playing. Eventually, say online developers, such features could even supplant the games themselves, spawning software genres that take advantage of the Internet's capacity for intense social interaction. They envision games that look less like cartoon carnage and more like movies in which the audience writes the script...
Following after Lon Chaney, Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Hopkins and a cartoon isn't easy. Neither is wearing a prosthetic hump for 17 hours a day, but when Turner Network Television offered MANDY PATINKIN The Hunchback (of Notre Dame), he jumped at it. "I don't know how you call yourself an actor if you turn down Quasimodo," says Patinkin. The actor thinks only one of his predecessors really counts. "Laughton, not Victor Hugo, wrote this part," he says. "I'm just playing his notes...
Bill Clinton woos voters with the ardor of Pepe Le Pew. Bob Dole's cranky bombast suggests a gaunter Foghorn Leghorn. And Ross Perot? Yosemite Sam. Electoral politicking can get so cartoonish that the making of political-cartoon movies might seem redundant. But Cartoongate (Kino International Video), an hour-long melange of short film parodies compiled by animator Greg Ford, proves that the men who want your vote have long been a source for ripe, mean...
...great find is Hell-Bent for Election, a 13-minute cartoon sponsored by the United Auto Workers to promote Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 re-re-re-election. Joe, a burly blond workingman, must assure that the Win the War Special (a high-speed train with F.D.R.'s smiling profile on the engine) gets to Washington ahead of the G.O.P.'s 1929 Defeatist Limited. Directed by the immortal Chuck Jones, with music by Earl Robinson and E.Y. Harburg, Hell-Bent for Election is visually imaginative and giddily unfair (for a moment the Republican villain metamorphoses into Hitler). It anchors a smart...