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...Jones joined the cheerful gang of animator-anarchists at Termite Terrace, as the Warner Bros. cartoonists called their dilapidated digs. He directed his first short, The Night Watchman, in 1938. But it took a wartime assignment to bring out the comic fatalist in Jones. With Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel, he hatched the Private Snafu shorts--irreverent sketches of an Army recruit whose laziness and general bad attitude forever threaten to hand victory to Hitler and Tojo. By war's end, Jones was infusing the brisk sauciness of these cartoons into his civilian work...
...coming of talking pictures, 24 years earlier. (That would be like doing a retro-musical today based on the songs and movies of 1978. Shall we have a disco version of "Smokey and the Bandit"?) Kelly, Reynolds, Donald O?Connor and Jean Hagen make for a wonderfully comic quartet. And the unsung star was Roger Edens, who took a sheaf of 20s and 30s songs by Herb Nacio Brown and Arthur Freed (producer of this film and most of Kelly?s other musicals) and soldered them into a perkily coherent score...
TIME.comix launched one year ago with a review of a love comic, so let's try making that an annual tradition, what with Valentine's Day just past. Issue #2 of "True Story Swear to God" by Tom Beland (Clib's Boy Comics; 40pp; $2.95) continues a series that may be painful to read for some - like me. Sub-titled "The true story of a real-life romance," the series chronicles the author's meeting and courting of the love of his life. It can be pretty brutal stuff for the lonely and bitter, yet hopeful too, told...
...group distributed copies of recent articles that appeared in the Independent and last week’s installments of the comic strip “Sock Full or Quarters,” which runs in The Crimson, to administrators to show what they described as Harvard students’ lack of understanding of the current sexual assault policy...
...theme of the typical girl movie; it traces parallel paths of self-discovery and fence mending. (A Walk to Remember and Crossroads have about a dozen of these I-forgive-you-oh-no-let-me-forgive-you-first scenes.) Audiences trained to expect a climax of bloody or comic revenge have to settle for hugs and smiles and maybe a tear. To enjoy these films is to get in touch with your inner softie. And that doesn't fit today's jock-and-schlock film climate, where "nice" is the tiniest niche...