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...late 70s and early 80s. First movie: the hero discovers his secret powers. Second movie: he shares he secret with his girlfriend. The third movie is about how it's not so super being a hero. Success, that cruel muse, threatens to transform him into a corrupt cartoon of his earlier, purer self. Recall that, in Superman III, a blend of kryptonite and tobacco tar split the Man of Steel in half, into good Supe and bad Supe. Christ battles antichrist, and they're the same person...
...IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns popular sites like match.com, ask.com and citysearch.com, has launched a youth-oriented virtual world of its own called Zwinktopia, which lets members customize avatars, play games and explore cartoon-like chat rooms. Unveiled April 30 and aimed at netheads aged 13 to 34, the site is entirely free. Members earn virtual "Zbucks" by playing games, meeting new people, and exploring different parts of Zwinktopia, including its café, stadium, arcades and pixelated beach...
...shirttail hanging out, snow-dusted porkpie knocked to the left, coat hooked to a thumb over his shoulder. Hanging on to a sky-blue cafeteria ticket as if it's the strap keeping him on his feet." There's hardly a mot here that's not juste. Likewise, a cartoon dog evokes "the obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy...
...CLASSIC VILLAINS HAVE BEEN shortchanged," says Peter Dinklage, who's Simon Barsinister, the orotund baddie in this summer's update of the '60s cartoon series Under-dog. "They've been cheated out of something by the hero. They'll do anything to get it because they've been overlooked in the past...
...those who already decry the ubiquity of Facebook and the way it distracts us from real human interaction, the idea that people could lead their entire lives—even romantic relationships—in an online world must be arresting. Should political discourse be reduced to this cartoon world...