Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Libertine, "Makes Hugh Hefner's Playboy Penthouse look like a nursery school," says ABC-TV. 100 Baker, HBS. 7, 8:30, May 22-23. With a Roadrunner cartoon...
After a rather tepid Krazy Kat cartoon and a razzle-dazzle rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that shouldn't be missed--technicolor psychedelics, sing-along sub-titles, and a flag with the wrong number of stars--we arrive in the Big City, which is probably Los Angeles but could be anyplace. Here the Tramp criss-crosses paths with the beautiful girl and the eccentric millionaire. She thinks that Chaplin must be wealthy as well as kind--after all, she's heard him getting out of a limousine. Smitten by love, he can't bring himself to explain that...
...Cartoon-qua-cartoon, Fritz The Cat isn't much. The good scenes (there are plenty) come straight out of Crumb, while the Bakshi-formed transitions are usually banal. (Bakshi can't cut to save his life within scenes either.) The voices are fine, the music jaunty, and at one point--when Billie Holiday is heard singing "Yesterdays"--the soundtrack gets beautiful. The color is gloriously trashy, but Bakshi lingers on his settings at ridiculous length...
Fritz the Cat, America's first X-rated feature-length cartoon. Abbey Cinema I, across from B.U. Fri.: 1:15. 2:45. 4:20. 5:50. 7:25. 9. 10:35. 12. Daily: 1. 2:30. 4. 5:30. 7. 8:30. 10. Starts...
...recent poll showed that more than half of all Italians had no interest in next week's elections, and understandably so. Instead of emphasizing reforms and specific programs, politicians are bombarding the public with appeals to support the left, center or right. A cartoon in Rome's weekly L'Espresso sums up the voters' response. It shows a poverty-stricken woman in a hut with her ragged children, being asked by a public opinion pollster: "Are you for dynamic centralism or progress without adventurism...