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...first page of Lisa Randall’s “Warped Passages,” there is a cartoon of two babies in a crib. A casual flip through the book shows a rabbit dancing in front of a projector, several spinning spheres, and man in a falling elevator...
...beginning of Iron Man - directed by Jon Favreau from a script by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway - Tony Stark is nearly a cartoon villain, though he's drawn in the bold, confident strokes worthy of a '60s Marvel Comic cover by Jack Kirby. He has a Mephistophelean goatee and a glint in his eyes that suggests this former boy wonder is a genius at wasting his genius. He's a devoted practitioner of pride, lust and avarice, to name the fanciest of your deadly sins. This is a man who has got it all: wealth, power...
...This machine, though, is no typical Disney/Pixar character. For one, it doesn’t speak our language. “I wanted you to believe it as a machine that was thinking on its own, I didn’t want you to think it was a cartoon character,” Stanton says. “That made me think it shouldn’t speak.”Wall•E, he said, is in many ways influenced by R2-D2 from the “Star Wars” series...
...What Would Wolves Do” music video. In Quincy’s vision of what wolves would do, an animated wolf/bear duo of intergalactic adventurers explore a planet inhabited by pouty-mouthed, bikini-clad creaturelings who love a good party. After a night of orgiastic cartoon excess, the plot takes a sharp turn into “Pit and the Pendulum” doom and gloom, as wolf and bear narrowly escape their female captors-turned-ritualistically-sacrificing-robots. Not quite as idiosyncratic as Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo, but bizarre enough, considering that Quincy’s working...
...cartoon in the International Herald Tribune said it all. It depicted Chinese leaders saying: "From now on, French fries are 'communist fries!' " as an angry crowd demonstrated in front of a French megastore in China. From tilting against the U.S. in 2003 to challenging China now, is France becoming the world's default Don Quixote? Five years ago Paris flamboyantly opposed the war of the American "hyperpower" in Iraq; now it opposes human-rights violations committed in Tibet by tomorrow's superpower, China. The parallel undeniably flatters the French ego, since it suggests the supremacy of ethics over realpolitik...