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Every year, The Crimson puts out a Confidential Guide to Classes in September, complete with a famous person (or cartoon) on the cover. Thus in the waning days of every summer, the designated Guide assembler begins calling agents, attempting to persuade a star to appear. Sometimes it works, as in the cases of David Letterman, Spike Lee and Dennis Miller. But sometimes, for one reason or another, the star won't deign to pose for the cover...
...Walt Disney Co. has agreed that in videos of its cartoon hit Aladdin it will change song lyrics describing the hero's native land as a place "where they cut off your ear/ If they don't like your face/ It's barbaric, but hey, it's home." Because Disney is not eliminating the "barbaric" line, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which brought the complaint, is still complaining...
...editorial cartoon by Pat Oliphant appeared in The Washington Post that has a fearsome resonance today. The panel shows an aging President Reagan telling handbag-toting Candidate Bush, "If you're ever in trouble, use THIS." Reagan is shown pointing at a button labeled "BOMB LIBYA." Coincidentally, an allegedly faltering president has just strafed the homeland of the new evil enemy...
...avalanche makes no distinction between George Romero and Ken Burns in attributing crime to TV mayhem. Nope, violence is violence -- and Looney Tunes, with 1.33 violent acts a minute, is four times as bad as MTV, with only .33. Bugs Bunny creates sociopaths? "I don't want to dismiss cartoon violence," the Senator says...
Such a colorful personal history guaranteed that Janet Reno would arrive in Washington and become, instantly, a cartoon. "She's so hard for this town to understand," says her law-school classmate Representative Pat Schroeder. Friends who have known Reno since her days as a chemistry major at Cornell, or as one of 16 women in a class of 500 at Harvard law, or as a powerhouse prosecutor in Miami, are amused at the caricature. "Everybody thought she was this li'l gal from the swamp," says longtime Miami friend Sara Smith. "They were patronizing her. Miami is a tremendously...