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That dual appeal is a sign of a welcome change in animation. Cartoons have bridged kids' and adult entertainment since the heyday of Walt Disney and Chuck Jones, but the field went through a long creative slump in the '70s and '80s, as programmers churned out Saturday-morning knock-offs made mainly to shill toys (My Little Pony) or repurpose sitcom characters (The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang). Today cartoons have undergone a renaissance, as kids' channels such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have given their animators the freedom of auteurs. Smarter and more idiosyncratic, these animators have created...
...chilly Friday night, and the varsity cheerleaders of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., can see their breath as they cheer for their football team, the Vikings. The girls bounce, tumble and lift smaller members onto human towers. The Viking princesses wear their hair in neat ponytails, scrubbed faces straining with smiles, voices rubbed raw with exertion. A girl with springs for legs does backflips along the edge of the field. "We didn't do stunts like this when I was a cheerleader, many moons ago," sighs Brenda LeGrand, their coach...
John Rockwell ’62, editor of The New York Times Arts and Leisure section, moderated the panel, “Sprung from the Ruins.” Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes introduced the discussion with a recitation of Walt Whitman’s “On the Beach...
...Arab Apocalypse, which is about twenty years old but as timely as ever given recent events. They’re also reading Forrest Hamer, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sam Witt, and Claudia Rankine. And I give them weekly hand-outs. This week it’s elegies by Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, and Thom Gunn...
It’s been a long trip since Snow White. Released in 1937, Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length animated feature in color and with sound ever to be produced. The world took notice. The film wowed audiences, succeeded at the box office and garnered an Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field.” That new field—the animated feature?...