Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brow, B-B Eyes and 88 Keyes (the larcenous pianist). But the villains never got the best of Dick Tracy, the hatchet-jawed, hawk-nosed dean of comic-strip detectives. Last week, Tracy, his snap-brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later, so did Tracy. After an 18-year courtship, he finally wed his blond sweetie Tess Trueheart, and, says Gould: "I left Tracy...
Many teachers and parents are skeptical of computer-controlled, cartoon-like learning devices. They wonder, as Author Fran Lebowitz has put it, what happens when the child "discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens." But the juvenile appetite for dancing letters appears to be insatiable. Indeed, this fall some of the computer software, designed by Children's Television Workshop of New York City, creators of Sesame Street and Sesame Place, will be available in computer retail shops and by direct mail from Apple...
...only cosmetics, toiletries and other grooming aids, considers it inappropriate to promote their wares directly to children. "We would prefer that the parents make the decisions on what to buy," says Greenfield. The commercials featuring Danielle will appear only on adult soap operas and game shows and not on cartoon programs...
...forest. A fox sprints over the tall grass, fear in her eyes, an infant fox dangling from her clenched teeth. A gunshot sounds; a flock of birds rises from the grass. The fox is dead, her infant an orphan. Happy summer, boys and girls! This is the new Disney cartoon feature...
...spend a lot of time policing all over the world," says Burroughs" grand son Danton, "trying to stop the infring-ers." In 1977 the courts ruled that a sexy French cartoon could not use the name Tarzoon. Last year, before the Dereks' $5.5 million production had begun filming, the estate asked for an injunction to stop Bo's show. It was denied. "The Burroughs people are sue-happy," says John Derek. "But since we were aware of the estate's opposition, we were very careful to stay within the guidelines. The studio looked at all the rushes...