Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exhibit now under consideration represents something of a curiosity: a rip-off of a ripoff. It will be remembered that the original cartoon feature Fritz the Cat - largely the work of the animator Ralph Bakshi - so enraged Fritz's creator, the underground comic artist R. Crumb, that he disowned the whole movie. Crumb, a stringent satirist, had conjured up Fritz as a way to mock the poses of the pseudo hipster and to lay waste the giddy excess of the culture from which he sprang. Bakshi slicked Fritz up, cooled him out, and turned him into the perfect creature...
Alice, a musical adaptation of the Walt Disney classic, which is a cartoon adaptation of Lewis Caroll's essay on sex and revolution, is playing at the MIT Student Center this weekend. Rumor has it that the MIT Players wanted Derek Bok to play the Cheshire Cat (he does have such a nice smile), but it turns out he can't sing. Charles Colson, who can and did sing, was next in line for the role, but his new agent, a fellow Chuck calls "God," said there wasn't enough money in it. Whoever they...
Alice in Wonderland, Disney's cartoon version of Lewis Carroll's classic, is the big event at the Welles this week. Disney's biographer insists that wonderful Walt was not a member of the John Birch Society, and if that's the case you might as well see the movie because it's sort of fun. But don't be fooled by all the hype: It's not all that great and if you're going for the art it's no Fantasia...
...Eicoff & Co., a Chicago advertising agency, to dream up a 60-second public-service spot, the youngsters produced a stark, unadorned outcry against what they conceived to be a deadening decline in the quality of American life. When agency professionals suggested that they coat their bitter pill with a cartoon format or offer solutions to the problems they were portraying, the students flatly refused. The commercial will be aired as is in Chicago next week, and the agency hopes to distribute it nationally. "They wouldn't put any icing on the cake," says Carole Darr, the agency...
Murmur of the Heart is a comedy about the French bourgeoisie by the eclectic Louis Malle, light but not a triviality. The after-effects include at least fifteen minutes of one of those cartoon grins, like that on the mouse who is starstruck after getting hit by a sledgehammer--pure silly bliss. This is an okay emotion to have visited upon you, and this is a picture not to be missed. Playing at the Brattle with Stolen Kisses until Tuesday. The second show on the bill is a Truffaut tale about young Antoine Doinel; it's more incisively funny than...