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...action movies that grossed more than $200 million at the domestic box office - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Da Vinci Code, Night at the Museum and Superman Returns - received not a single major nomination among them. (Cars, the top-grossing cartoon, won a nod in the animated feature grotto.) Until the Academy creates a category called Best Picture a Whole Lot of People Paid to See, the SPFX epics and crowd-pleasing comedies will have to be content with their consolation prize: earning untold billions worldwide...
...degenerate dandy." He describes his sound on his MySpace page as "Beck via Queen and Elton John and a touch of Rufus W.[ainwright]." He appears to be having fun. Did I mention the full head of hair? I'd been given an advance copy of Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika's debut album due Feb. 5, but I'd been reluctant to play it. It's pop, therefore manufactured and disposable, right? What if I like...
...minutes Andrea McColl, a research assistant at the University of Southern California, has been repeating the same string of nonsense syllables, changing her intonation on cue. When a smiling cartoon face pops up on the screen in front of her, she tries to sound happy. When a frowning face pops up, she sounds sad. And then, again on cue, she falls silent, listening via a headphone as an actress runs through a similar da-da-da-da-da routine...
DIED. Iwao Takamoto, 81, Japanese-American animator who created the canine cartoon sleuth Scooby-Doo; in Los Angeles. Interned with his family in California during World War II, Takamoto first learned illustration from his fellow detainees. After the war, he apprenticed at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on films that included Cinderella and Peter Pan. In 1961 he joined Hanna-Barbera, where he designed characters for Scooby-Doo (whose name Takamoto took from a scat line in the Frank Sinatra song Strangers in the Night) as well as for TV cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons...
...Finally, there's "Pepper ... and Salt," the small cartoon that has been running for 57 years and that has moved back - apparently due to popular demand - to the Journal's opinion pages. I've always felt uneasy around "Pepper ... and Salt," a bit like I do watching Jay Leno, whose high corn factor and consistent unfunniness make me cringe. But what do I know? America seems to love the guy, along with that little cartoon in the Journal...