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...though, the Katzenberg era at Disney -- one of phenomenal growth, an eerie stability and that amazing revival of the precious cartoon heritage -- has ended. Oh well, as the Lion King would say, hakuna matata. Not to worry. Eisner will reinvent his company, and soon, perhaps, Katzenberg will invent his own. For the moment, he's in the hot seat. His former colleague -- and future competitor -- is sitting in the Katzenberg seat...
...film whose screenplay won Stone his first Oscar) explode on the window of a motel room while the two ( make love and a hostage looks on. As the Cowboy Junkies' ethereal version of Sweet Jane plays on the sound track, they make a blood pact, and the drops form cartoon snakes -- a big motif here...
...bear and her cub in the New Hampshire woods. The mother dies relatively quickly from her wounds; her cub is less lucky. "Get her with this!" shouts a man, and pulls out a crossbow. Suddenly the cub squeals; imbedded in its skull, as if in some ghastly Saturday-morning cartoon, is an arrow. The hunter takes his time reloading. Finally, with his second shot, the bear falls to the ground, where the dogs set upon it. The hunters cheer; then one of them cuts open the cub's back, reaches into its body and pulls out the goal...
...Stanley Ipkiss dons a mystical mask, and shazam! all cartoon hell breaks loose. His face goes green; his teeth grow as large as porcelain pillows. When he spots gorgeous Tina on a nightclub stage, his eyeballs pop like demented Slinkys, his anvil jaw drops onto the table, and his tongue cascades from his mouth; it's a red carpet for a red-hot princess to walk on. His heart thumps about a yard out of his chest. He lets howl a wolf whistle Jack Nicholson would envy and bashes himself with a huge mallet...
This scene from The Mask is a scream, all right. But no mere live-action film could boast the speed and grace of the 1943 cartoon that directly inspired it: Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood. Catch it some night on cable's Cartoon Network. The Wolf enters a club called the Sunset Strip ("30 Gorgeous Girls -- No Cover"), and starts palpating when Red, in a scarlet bustier, sings Daddy. Wolfie goes bats: chairs fly, factory whistles blow, mechanical hands clap. And Red is worth every libidinal leer. With her Bette Davis voice, Betty Grable legs and Betty Boop...