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...might say that patheticism stands to notions of high culture (an ever imperiled growth in the United States) rather as the antics of Ren, Stimpy, Beavis, Butt-head and their pals do to those Edwardian gents in four-button ecru linen jackets who are seen contemplating San Miniato in Merchant-Ivory movies. To be a patheticist is to have more or less given up. It is to have made the discovery, always startling to the young, that parents lie, that politicians cheat, that moral authorities are hypocritical, that human society is one big sucking morass of dreck, and that...
...Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon shows coming this fall), and kids assume that any film or series with any action in it will come out in a game cartridge within six months. Besides Aladdin, vidkids this Christmas will be able to choose from games based on Cliffhanger, Last Action Hero, Ren and Stimpy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Home Improvement, Jurassic Park and a whole subgenre of Bart Simpson adventures, including The Simpsons: Escape from Camp Deadly, Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, Bart vs. the Space Mutants, Bart vs. the Juggernauts and Bart vs. the World...
Other events included a discussion on documentary filmmaking, an homage to French director Ren* Clair and a seminar on film exposure given by Eastman Kodak. The Boston premiere of "In the Soup" at Coolidge Corner's antique theatre closed the festivites. As the antic story of an aspiring independent filmmaker driven to crime to fund his work, Rockwell's film proved a fitting close to a work-shop. Cassel, Rockwell, and his wife, actress Jennifer Beals, afterwards answered questions on the film, made on a minuscule budget of $800,000. Rockwell, a Harvard Square native, belongs to a rare species...
...know! How about a theme party?" exclaimed one of my fellow partythrowers. But the only cool theme we conceived was a Ren and Stimpy party, which, we all agreed, would have required large quantities of hallucinatory drugs to convince guests that they were really inside a cartoon. "A beach party!" exclaimed another roommate. "We could put all our halogen lamps and space heaters in one room, spread sand all over the floor, and fill a kiddie pool with water!" "Or beer," someone quickly suggested. But we decided that this was really more a pitiful attempt to attract large numbers...
...prime-time success of The Simpsons (the medium's best-written series, no question, no competition) and the cult appeal of Nickelodeon's gross-out, only slightly homoerotic Ren & Stimpy is matched in daytime slots by cartoon shows from Disney and Fox. In commercials and music videos, in Nintendo games and as a top-selling portion of the videocassette market, animation appeals both to adults nostalgic for their Roadrunner days and to ) kids, whose attention span just about carries them from one frenetic cartoon frame to the next. "Video has made children discriminating consumers of cartoons," says Simpsons creator Matt...