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...sending E-mail or pictures. Hundreds of little Java applications (dubbed "applets") have started to pop up on the World Wide Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet. One site lists more than 700 working Java applets--each only a mouse click away--that generate everything from small dancing cartoon figures and steaming cups of coffee to knock-offs of such games as Pac-Man and Missile Command. Several leading venues on the Internet, including c|net and Time Warner's Pathfinder, now use Java applets with links to the wire services to display live news tickers running across...
...KATZ: PROFESSIONAL THERAPIST (COMEDY CENTRAL) Pay no mind to all those imitation Friends. This witty, laconic cartoon comedy, in which a pensive analyst deals with a floundering son and a host of weirdly neurotic patients, is the year's best new sitcom...
Unfortunately, the play fails in its "no cartoon" pledge, which ruins it on all levels. Although Tony tries to tell the audience that a play is not a cartoon, the writers, Liz Amberg and Richard Amberg, have not listened. Instead, they struggle with two opposing viewpoints. Is the play real or a cartoon? One wonders...
...seems real enough. It is well utilized: a big window allows the audience to see passers-by in the background. Kitchen equipment is placed throughout the whitewashed scene. But, perhaps the scenery should not look so real. When the audience is introduced to the cafeteria workers, they are 100% cartoon. Comic in gesture and personality, even the way they walk off stage is Scooby-like. Left with two conflicting ideals, the play fails on both accounts...
...Slaw and Order" serves up its best jokes when it tries to be a cartoon Laughter can abound at some of the recreations of the health inspector's death. Early on, he brings several moments of entertainment with his unctuous gestures. Later, a sub-plot, involving the unreaction of samplers brought out a few chuckles from the audience. But, these moments do not quite add up to a great play. Even Velma knows that it takes more than the discovery of a magnifying glass and phosphorescent paint to solve the crime...