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...surprise breakout stars of this year's Oscars are cute and huggable, but they aren't Adrien Brody and Michael Moore. They're the CHUBBCHUBBS, the little Tweety look-alikes featured in the cartoon that won the Oscar for best short animated film. The ChubbChubbs were originally created to test animation software that Sony Imageworks was developing, but now execs are grooming them for a stand-alone DVD release and possibly a full-length feature. The story of The ChubbChubbs! revolves around Meeper, a resident of the planet Glorf, who--well, the story doesn't matter. What does matter...
...system for its entire history. Basketball is the most selfish team sport in our society. Until all the thugs and gangsters leave the NBA or learn to behave like adults and not spoiled children, it will continue to be a joke. The NBA should show its games on the Cartoon Network because the sport cannot be taken seriously. ERIC ONKENHOUT Bellingham, Mass...
COWBOY BEBOP. This anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
...fall of 1928, Walt Disney could claim three dubious assets: a new animated cartoon character called Mickey Mouse, three short silent films featuring the spunky rodent and an idea greater than perhaps even he imagined--adding sound tracks to his little films...
...teach. Perhaps because they come from traditionalist cultures, even many younger Asian artists produce work that, like Chen's, acknowledges the history and long-standing cultural practices of their homelands. But preconceptions about the Japanese gift for wabi--refined simplicity--will get you nowhere with the dancing cartoon mushrooms of the post-Pop artist Takashi Murakami. A very visible figure on the international art circuit, Murakami decked out Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal last year with giant balloons covered with eyeballs that owed more to the Japanese obsession with cartoon animation than to tea ceremonies and lacquered trays...