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PARADES IN NEW YORK City are always an extravagant affair--from ticker tape parades for astronauts to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featuring every cartoon character from Betty Boop to a Mutant Ninja Turtle...
...City Council passed a resolution last night against the R.J. Reynolds Company's use of the "Cool Joe" cartoon to advertise Camel cigarettes on Cambridge billboards...
First came protests against Joe Camel, a raffish advertising character that has attracted teenagers to Camel cigarettes. Now furious grownups are opening new fronts in the wars for dollars and youthful minds. Incensed by plans for a Fox network cartoon series that would star Chester Cheetah, a pitchman for Frito-Lay's Chee-tos snacks, Action for Children's Television and six other groups last week asked the FCC to bar the program. While Fox said it will not show spots for Chee-tos during the series, ACT said the program itself would amount to a commercial and would violate...
...drug dealer needs a beeper and a gun. Kids who are not actually dealers pack a gun to pretend that they are. A gun makes a man-child dangerous and commands respect. As the cartoon figure He-Man says, "I have the power!" A firefight may be set off by a drug turf war or, as with Tyrone and Ian, some lesser thing. Children kill children over earrings and jackets and tennis shoes...
...GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE. In this 1986 animated feature, now revived for a new generation, a mouse chanteuse performs the first tentative striptease in a Disney cartoon. Otherwise, there's not much momentous in this story of some adorable rodents and a peg-legged bat named Fidgit -- just some clever cartoonists having a holiday on mice...