Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heavy Traffic. This is the new X-rated animated cartoon by Ralph Bakshi, the maker of the celebrated Fritz the Cat. It is usually vulgar, sometimes disgusting, and guaranteed to offend you in one way or another -- either through its occasional perversions or its ethnic stereotypes. But Heavy Traffic is good. Bakshi has discovered freedom in the cartoon form, and this is a film of poignancy and some depth. Cheri...
...Edwardsville, the orange-frizzed, troll-sized (5 ft. 1 in.) Midler hit the stage like a cartoon of a cyclone. "She's here," she assured her audience. "The divine Miss M is here." Actually, she was here, there and all over the stage at once - leaping, squatting, strutting, eyes popping, cakewalking at treble speed, as if she were strobe-lit from the inside. Midler has, as the French say, a world on her balcony, and it threatened to topple right out of her purple satin slip as she flounced across the stage to snipe...
...novelty derives not from originality of insight but from the fact that virtually the whole movie is a cartoon. Animation has seldom been used to express purely personal experience. Heavy Traffic not only has an authentic tenement toughness but the rough feeling of unassimilated autobiography, of experiences and fantasies still keenly felt...
...world will have to wait a bit for the first cartoon Kafka. Right now Bakshi is finishing "a homage to the black man" in the form of a collection of Uncle Remus-style tales called Coonskin. As in all animation work, progress is slow because each movement, no matter how imperceptible in the finished product, requires a separate drawing. "We turn out twelve feet of film a week here," says Bakshi, who disdains the larger animation outfits in town that finish a hundred or more feet a week by using fewer drawings per foot and settling for less lively results...
...senior year in high school in 1960, she was a walking cartoon. Her dress was outlandish, her behavior outrageous. Even the boys were embarrassed by her gamy language and alcoholic escapades at sleazy bars across the river in Louisiana. Classmates took to calling...