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...elementary school, I used to drool while watching my Gentile and assimilated Jewish friends greedily remove any one of the multitude of Hostess cakes from their "Dukes of Hazzard" lunchboxes and quickly gorge themselves upon the cream filled delights. It seemed to me that, like the cartoon commercial claimed--everyone got "A big delight out of every bite of Hostess Cupcakes." That tempting creamy middle really did seem to revitalize all those lucky enough to devour it, and gave them the requisite sugar rush they needed to conquer the playset from the older, more powerful second-graders...
...were wrong. Everybody's favorite cartoon show seemed, for its first year or so, longer on sass than satire. But this season Homer has supplanted Bart at the program's center, and the series has soared to inventive new heights, skewering everything from multinational corporate takeovers to America's Funniest Home Videos. No doubt anymore: it's TV's most dangerous sitcom...
...were wrong. Everybody's favorite cartoon show seemed, for its first year or so, longer on sass than satire. But this season Homer has supplanted Bart at the program's center, and the series has soared to inventive new heights, skewering everything from multinational corporate takeovers to America's Funniest Home Videos. No doubt anymore: it's TV's most dangerous sitcom...
There's plenty of animation dazzle in Disney's latest tuneful fable; the Be Our Guest number manages to evoke both Busby Berkeley and the Folies-Bergere. But Beauty swaps the buoyancy of Disney's last great cartoon feature, The | Little Mermaid, for poignancy and emotional depth. That's fine too since, at heart, this story is about a man's need to evoke fear when he is really afraid, and a woman's need to pity a man before she can love...
There's plenty of animation dazzle in Disney's latest tuneful fable; the Be Our Guest number manages to evoke both Busby Berkeley and the Folies-Bergere. But Beauty swaps the buoyancy of Disney's last great cartoon feature, The Little Mermaid, for poignancy and emotional depth. That's fine too since, at heart, this story is about a man's need to evoke fear when he is really afraid, and a woman's need to pity a man before she can love...