Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other film, a minute-long cartoon, features Pope-eye, a holy man. To the tune of Popeye's theme, Pope-eye sings, "I'm Pope-eye, the holy man. I live in the Vatican..." In the short, drawn from the original 1927 Popeye series, Pope-eye baptizes Brutus and hears Olive Oyl's confession as a gay-rights leader...
Nixon, however, emerges as neither a political cartoon nor a satire. Instead, it is a daring, complex and ultimately successful examination of the moment in 1972 when West met East on the tarmac at Peking, a heroic opera for an unheroic age. Although historical operas are not unusual (Verdi's Don Carlos, for example), it is rare for a new work to treat personages of such recent vintage. The topic is resonant, for the former President still arouses potent emotions in those whose political consciousness was forged by Viet Nam, Kent State and Watergate. But the Minnesota-born Goodman...
...first three days of the crisis, Bush was the invisible figure of a Doonesbury cartoon, failing even to play a behind-the-scenes role in White House meetings. On Thursday, when he finally surfaced to address a campaign rally in Miami, the Vice President found himself trapped by his official role. Denied permission to say anything that would preview the President's press conference, Bush was reduced to banalities. "I still believe the solution is not to go rushing out to raise taxes," he declared, staking out a position that Reagan seemed about to abandon. The next day in Iowa...
...FUNNIEST cartoon performance, though, is Jy Murphy's, as the insane pool cleaner. He says nothing, but walks up and down the edge of the pool, like a refugee from Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch. For some reason, this is screamingly funny. But is it funny because Prascak meant for his actors to be so one-dimensional, or because the actors are simply inept? I don't know; it's hard to tell...
Nothing infuriates critics of children's TV more than cartoon shows that are produced or partly financed by toy manufacturers. Mattel, for example, used He-Man and the Masters of the Universe to help sell an estimated $175 million worth of toys last year, while Hasbro's Transformers helped generate sales of $214 million. Under President Reagan, the Federal Communications Commission has removed all limits on advertising in children's programming and refused to take action against shows that detractors call "program-length commercials...