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...springy slouch, his thin frame forming a question mark, his gut preceding his chest by a beat or two. His hands were ever aflutter, shaking off invisible water (or sewage), conducting an imaginary silly symphony. While Ralph was the choleric loser, Ed was the lucky buffoon. Like the Looney Tunes character Pepe Le Pew (another bon vivant blithely ignorant of the way the world saw and smelled him), Norton exuded a sweet assurance that life would treat him as he treated life: with an easy shrug and an eager guffaw. That's how an acute farceur humanized a sewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 24, 2003 | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Warner Bros. cartoon shorts from the '40s and '50s, may not sound like those of enduring works of cinematic art, but they are--as surely as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are two of the deftest farceurs to grace the movie medium. Now, on a four-disc DVD set, Looney Tunes Golden Collection ($64.92), the magnificent menagerie lives again, pristinely restored. Any fan can argue with the choices (Why not more Bob Clampett stuff? Where is Tex Avery!?) but not with the hours of cogent analysis and interviews. They show that what the front office dismissed as program filler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Looney Treasures | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...general effect is fairly comic, though Tarantino occasionally pulls the violence down from its warped Looney Tunes universe and throws it into the grime of sober realism. But regardless of tone, it’s difficult to believe that a movie so thoroughly saturated in bloodshed could waltz away with no more than an R rating. Tarantino has gotten away with murder, or, at last count, 102, once again seriously calling into question the legitimacy of the MPAA’s current rating system...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All Sussed Out | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

Yeah, during that four-year period I went to [Oktoberfest] three times and Mardi Gras twice just to compare them.  Mardi Gras is fun—it’s a looney bin—but in the end it didn’t hold up to Oktoberfest...

Author: By Kaija-leena Romero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions For... | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

...Looney Litigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 2002 | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

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