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Just as his alliances with Senate soldiers made Kerry both more successful and more human, so has his dependence on veterans during the campaign. In their company Kerry seems least like the cartoon version of himself: the loner, the striver who escaped from the wax museum. With his comrades-in-arms, including the ones who come up to him at campaign events with a memory to share, a story to tell, Kerry finds time to pay attention, lean in, not look over their shoulder to see who else is in the room...
...nothing sacred? Long before Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw made the suffering singleton chic, a neurotic, noseless career woman was a pioneer among Neanderthals like Hagar the Horrible. Now CATHY, the funny papers' eternal (or since 1976) bachelorette, will get a marriage proposal. The chubby cartoon icon has been warring with boyfriend Irving in recent strips, but he will finally pop the question on Valentine's Day. How Cathy responds is under wraps. Next to a photocopier somewhere, Dilbert is kicking himself...
...HOLLYWOOD HIT] X-MEN Now he's exposing Hugh Jackman's fingernails in the cartoon-superhero movies...
...Long-Haired Hare,? ?Yankee Doodle Daffy,? ?Duck Amuck,? ?Wabbit Twouble,? ?Fast and Furry-ous,? ?Feed the Kitty.? These titles of Warner Bros. cartoon shorts from the 40s and 50s don?t sound like the names of enduring works of cinematic art. But they are, as surely as Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett and Friz Freleng were among the great comedy directors; as surely as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are two of the deftest farceurs to grace the movie medium. Now, on a four-disc DVD set, ?Looney Tunes Golden Collection,? the magnificent menagerie lives again, pristinely restored...
...that way. Bette Midler once made a joke about Bruce Springsteen in his 80s buff phase: ?Nice body, Bruce. Where?d you buy it?? Same goes for many of the Playmates of the past 20 years. The 50th Anniversary Playmate, Colleen Shannon, is a Pamela Anderson clone, a pneumatic cartoon drawn by Alberto Vargas or Frank Frazetta - a sex-toy doll inflated to Macy?s Thanksgiving Parade proportions...