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...winning formula must be severe. So it was brave for the Disney artists to try tiptoeing away from what worked. Pocahontas had soaring melodies to match its do-gooding intentions; The Hunchback of Notre Dame came within two deaths and three cute gargoyles of being the first grownup singing-cartoon romantic tragedy. But these two movies also had an almost toxic serioso content. At times they got so solemn they could have been Broadway musicals in the fashionable I'm-miserable-I'm-a- monster-I'm-a-Times-Square-whore-my-ship-is-sinking mode. Songs for suicides...
...salesmen and pundits--many the middle-age parents of perplexing offspring--are acknowledging that their first X rays of the new generation were distorted. "The baby boomers of the media and marketing world were desperate to explain a generation they didn't understand, so they reduced Xers to a cartoon," says Adam Morgan, managing partner at TBWA Chiat/Day, the ad agency that collaborated with Yankelovich. "It may be the most expensive marketing mistake in history." Last year the magazine Who Cares and the Center for Policy Alternatives, a Washington think tank, released a survey that showed...
...sorry that your review of new animation and cartoon books [SHOW BUSINESS, May 19] failed to mention my father Robert McKimson, who was with Warner Bros. Cartoons studio as an animator and director from 1931 until it closed in 1963. He directed 175 cartoons and created the Tasmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester Jr. and the original Speedy Gonzales. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and was credited in 1944 by the Library of Congress as the author-artist of Bugs Bunny. The books you covered in this article did little to expose the artistic talent that was part...
...usually enjoy your cartoons; I find them insightful and humorous. The cartoon of Monday May 5, however, "Why women weren't on the Apollo moon missions," offended me. Women today and throughout history have been denied the right to participate in innumerable endeavors, the space program included, because of stereotypical and wrong assumptions about their physiological needs...
Perhaps a cartoon pointing this tragedy out would be more funny. I understand no harm was meant by the cartoon, but no harm is often meant by decisions that end up harming and stereotyping people. I hope you will be more sensitive to your female readers in the future. --Lizbeth F. Alatorre...