Word: cartoons
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...Late Registration,” has none of the flair of either artist’s best work. Plympton’s animation is a frustratingly literal rendition of Kanye’s lyrics: West’s stream-of-conscious verses are dutifully translated into cartoon vignettes, but the gonzo flourishes that characterize Plympton’s style are lamentably absent. Adding insult to injury, the animated portions of the video are interspersed with even blander live-action footage of Kanye and accompanying singer Adam Levine (of Maroon 5 infamy) delivering lackluster vocal performances before a bare white background...
Postmodernism comes to kid lit! But to children it will seem more like good subversive fun. The conceit is that the book's illustrator, Ned--who is often depicted hard at work--can't paint fast enough to stay ahead of the reader. So a cartoon stand-in for Lendler keeps turning up to urge the reader to slow down for Ned's sake and to please, please not turn the page yet. Now, what youngster can resist defying such a request? The narrative, a standard knight-rescuing-an-imprisoned-princess tale, unravels ridiculously as the overwhelmed Ned is forced...
...services including GoTV. Fox has created one-minute cell-phone offshoots of 24, and a mini-spin-off of Lost is forthcoming. Time Warner (TIME's parent company) will offer computer downloads of past Warner Bros. series like Kung Fu through AOL (free but with ads), while Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network will sell shows for $2.99 for a media player made by toy company Hasbro. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is even creating an Emmy for original video on nontraditional platforms such as mobile phones and computers...
...This first Harry Potter film clocked in at a logorrheic 2hr33, nearly twice the length of a Disney cartoon feature. If The Sorcerer?s Stone has any merit, it was to demonstrate the elasticity of children?s attention spans; it proved that kids could sit still, enrapt, for ages. Goblet of Fire, which is not just an efficient babysitter but a wizard of a movie, will prove that adults...
...before Conan’s tenure at the multiple-Emmy-winning cartoon, Harvard alums helped develop and shape the show. Al Jean III ’81 helped craft its first episodes, transitioning “The Simpsons” from a sketch on the Tracy Ullman Show to a cartoon sitcom...