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Mexico rekindled a cross-border controversy last week with a new series of postage stamps of Memín Pinguín, a 1940s cartoon boy that resembles the Jim Crow-era caricatures of African Americans. The White House objected to the philatelic stereotyping, which follows President Vicente Fox's gaffe in May that Mexicans do jobs in the U.S. that "not even blacks want." The Rev. Jesse Jackson demanded a recall of the "Sambo-type" images. But a rep at the Mexican embassy insisted the stamps are misunderstood: "Speedy González has never been interpreted in a racial manner" in Mexico...
RALPH'S WORLD: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KID ASTRO Imagine Ziggy Stardust--era David Bowie doing the theme for a Nickelodeon cartoon, and you'll have the title track, a 3-min. rock operetta about a space boy who gets powers from a magic comet (but still has to go to school). From there, alt rocker turned children's rocker Ralph Covert runs through genres like a kid hitting every ride at a theme park: British Invasion backbeats, infectious Buddy Holly stomps and fanciful finger picking...
...much iconography. More than 30 years ago, a typical illustration of Lincoln in popular culture was his appearance on Star Trek, in which he joined the crew members of the U.S.S. Enterprise in their war of good against evil. Today, a typical portrait is the wickedly brilliant cartoon Hard Drinkin' Lincoln, on the website icebox.com which makes the 16th President a cross between Homer Simpson and Kenny on South Park...
...CARTOON NETWORK, SUNDAYS...
...network says this cartoon is aimed at kids from 6 to 14. Is that even possible? Well, older kids will appreciate the savvy pop-culture parodies and the heroine, a sassy, tween fly with a nonconformist streak. When a clique of her trendy peers decides it's no longer cool to regurgitate food--part of the natural fly digestion process--she defiantly barfs on a plate of garbage and declares, in a Spartacus moment, "I am a fly!" The barfing jokes explain why the 6-year-olds will like...