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...those who cringe at the idea of having to experience the famously crude animation of the original Rocky and Bullwinkle series on the big screen, never fear-this big-budget update of Jay Ward's beloved cartoon (celebrating its 40th anniversary) is actually in the same vein as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, placing everyone's favorite flying squirrel/moose tandem in an otherwise live-action world. More than just a simple retread of the original series, the new film works under the premise that the show was cancelled, leaving Rocky and Bullwinkle in the real world, looking for work. They suddenly...
...speech bubbles, the cartoon showed D'Alessandro saying, "Baaah, go find your own funds!" and "All I care about is my resume...
...only are the program's wrangles topical, but they also hew closely to the actual debates in Washington instead of giving us Hollywood's usual cartoon version. That's not out of civic obligation, the showmen insist, it's just that reality is entertaining. "The farther you get away from the truth of those debates, the softer the drama is going to be," says Sorkin, who also created and writes the ABC series Sports Night. For a political edge, he relies on consultants like Caddell and former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, who describes Sorkin's approach as "Give...
...Wade have repeatedly been struck down by the Supreme Court, anti-abortionists have adopted the tactic of attacking procedures one-by-one. The D&X procedure is an easy target. It is infrequently used and lends itself to graphic depictions by anti-abortionists in now-famous cartoon drawings of the procedure sent to members of Congress. However, its alternative, dilation and evacuation (D&E), the typical abortion procedure performed in the first and second trimesters, is equally gruesome. In fact, the two procedures are so similar that the wording in the Nebraska law is vague enough to call into question...
...friend's couch in Brooklyn while attempting to break into the national media and maybe pick up some magazine assignments--covering the wars in Africa, for example, or the Rudy Giuliani-Hillary Clinton race. But he concedes there isn't much cash to be made in drawing long, depressing cartoon strips. That's when he starts to sketch a disturbing-looking chicken with a human head who's misunderstood by both human and chicken communities. He calls it the Human Poultry Item. "This is the character who's going to make me rich," he says...