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...rhyme set he achieved the type of international renown that allows people to become known only by their first name. With his throaty voice, chocolate-sweet eyes and zippy rhythms, he provided intelligent amusement to millions of boys and girls who might otherwise be transported to the Saturday- morning cartoon swampland of death rays and superheroes. In the process, he was amply rewarded: his 10 albums sold 6 million copies, and he was awarded Canada's highest civilian decoration...
GREAT AMERICAN COMICS: 100 YEARS OF CARTOON ART, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Nearly 100 original cartoon panels documenting this whimsical and sometimes serious art form, from the turn-of-the-century adventures of Little Nemo through the goings on of Opus the penguin. Through...
...Reference Guide to Media Bias, the center also publishes TV, etc., a guide to left-wing influences in the entertainment business. Topics range from the plight of devout Christian actors forced to go undercover in atheistic Hollywood to the "radical environmentalist agenda" propagated by Ted Turner's cartoon program Captain Planet and the Planeteers...
...contrast, the British are embarrassed by the direct approach, preferring humor. "British ads are funnier because the British themselves are funnier," says Dutch adman Bart Kuiper. One cheeky British spot, titled The Hopping Pecker, shows a cartoon image of a male organ knocking at a red heart-shaped door and being refused entry until it coifs a condom...
...bodies and cameras produces congenial movie movement. Two of the actors carry this larkish spirit throughout the film. Geraldine McEwan, in devil-doll weeds, makes for a hilariously desiccated witch. And Alan Rickman, fairly drooling with delight at his own wickedness, plays the Sheriff of Nottingham as a vibrant cartoon villain: Snidely Whiplash rampant...