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...fault. During the prologue, the orchestra remains just a little bit off beat, but enough to make one sit up and take notice. Fortunately conductor Jonathan McPhee soon shepherds his fellow musicians into a warm, rolling succession of tunes you'll be sure to recognize from the Walt Disney cartoon. (Hint--if you go to a matinee showing, expect to hear at least four little future prima donnas around you singing along with the "Once Upon A Dream" segment.) The score is simply so relaxing and lucid that it's practically therapeutic. Don't consider yawning to be an insult...
...this could be a discrediting of their reputations and a numbing to more important racial discourses (that both men have themselves written). For example, affirmative action has been so exploited that it has become the object of many jokes. In the "Black in America" issue, there is a cartoon of black politician standing at a podium; the caption reads, "And, if elected, I promise to put more black people in cartoons." Another features three aliens in a spaceship, one reading a memo, saying "It's from headquarters--we're not abducting enough blacks." These cartoons (and there are many more...
Tune in. it's Sunday afternoon, St. Patrick's Day, and traditional Celtic music is wafting through the air outside a Benedict Canyon ranch home high above Beverly Hills. Inside, musicians are serenading an Irish philosopher as he lies dying in bed among linens that depict cartoon rocket ships zooming over planets. Throughout the afternoon and well into the night, visitors come to pay their respects: a grandchild, Rastas, filmmaker Oliver Stone, slackers, alternative rocker Perry Farrell, Webheads. "I run a salon," says Timothy Leary. "Throughout human history, the salon has always been a fermenting place where creative people meet...
...engineer at a nameless firm who, explains Adams with some understatement, "is not fully drinking all of the passion and variety that other people might be." His sidekick, a dog named Dogbert, is far savvier--and merciless about his owner's many failings. From its debut in 1989, the cartoon featured some of what Adams calls "cubicle culture": a natural subject, since he himself occupied Cubicle 4S700R as an applications engineer at Pacific Bell. (He has also been a computer programmer and a commercial lender and was robbed twice at gunpoint during a stint as a bank teller...
Ideally, Cohen says he would like to write for "The Simpsons," his favorite show for six years and the cartoon he says has the best writers...