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...drawback: no one, staff or writer, gets paid. Yet Eggers has lassoed literary stars like David Foster Wallace and Rick Moody. In the new issue, he even enlisted authors to design their own book covers. (A Denis Johnson play bears a cartoon by the author's son.) Because of the box and other doodads--heavy paper, color foldouts--the issue costs $22, but Eggers, who has worked as a designer (and insisted on designing his memoir), argues, "People don't go to a bookstore looking for a cheap and ugly thing." McSweeney's contributor Sarah Vowell says Eggers' art background...
...major studios created classroom epics: Disney's 1946 cartoon The Story of Menstruation (no, Minnie's not in it) and Warner's 1962 poli-scare film Red Nightmare. You'll see a teenage Dick York (the first Darren on TV's Bewitched) as a "shy guy" who wins friends by sharing his radio-building expertise, and young Jack Lemmon, in Once Too Often, as a smug suburbanite headed for a sickening car crash. Sex Hygiene, a 1942 VD film with gross-out closeups of pustulant penises and bizarre soaping rituals, was directed for the Navy by no less than John...
...When the future Vice President was an up-and-coming investigative reporter and editorial writer at the Nashville Tennessean, his future strategist was sitting at the next desk as a summer intern. Eskew later made a reputation for simple, funny, devastatingly effective political advertisements, the most famous being a cartoon series in which he portrayed popular Republican Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker as a big, lazy bear snoozing through votes and waking up ornery. The ads, launched late in the 1988 campaign, did much to help Joe Lieberman score the only Democratic upset of that year's Senate elections...
...often consumes less energy than their alpha-male, intramural head butting. When the cable division wanted to brand its high-speed cable-modem business Road Runner, the Warner Bros. marketers--with straight faces--tried to extract a billion-dollar licensing fee from their corporate brethren for use of the cartoon bird. If any one thing has made Levin a success, it is his long-range strategic vision. But his willingness to let his managers run their businesses as they see fit--as long as they deliver double-digit earnings growth--runs a close second...
...jurisdiction. That was intended to prove that even if McCain had assisted Paxson and a wide variety of others, such as BellSouth, Ameritech and US West, he had also helped nondonors, including a Texas radio station. In one case he asked for an investigation of the use of cartoon characters on gambling machines, against the wishes of major gambling-industry contributors...