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...Walt Disney Pictures
Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. will pay $1 million and $500,000, respectively, for repeated violations of FCC regulations aimed to curb the commercial inundation of impressionable children. As it stands, the FCC has a host of regulations on programming intended for children age 12 and younger. For instance, the FCC limits the amount of commercial minutes allowed per hour—12 minutes on weekdays, 10 and a half on weekends. Also, to ensure that children don’t become automatonic advertisers for “SpongeBob SquarePants,” networks can?...
...Arts. "Brad and I were in the first year of the character-animation program," recalls Lasseter, "and we bonded with our love of cartoons. At that time animation was thought of as something just for children. But Brad and I believed animation was for everybody. That's the way Walt Disney made his films. That's the way Chuck Jones made his cartoons...
Leland has a weakness for phrasemaking and surplus rhetoric but a real gift for connecting centuries-old developments in American life to the endlessly evolving postures we call "hip." In the sensual ecstasies of Walt Whitman and the individualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson he finds hip's literary underpinnings. He maps the spiritual connections between the bleak machismo of West Coast--detective fiction and the desperado postures of L.A. gangsta rap. He points out the lines that connect hip-hop, with its audience of white suburban boys, to 19th century minstrel shows, in which whites in blackface strutted racial clich?...
...slipping across the Mediterranean into Italy. " Libya can tighten its borders," says a European ambassador in Tripoli. "But the Libyans think this is our problem." Friendship still has its limits. - By Vivienne Walt Close Call POLAND Prime Minister Marek Belka's government narrowly survived a parliamentary vote of confidence just hours after Belka announced the country would begin reducing its 2,500-strong troop contingent in Iraq early next year. "We will not remain in Iraq an hour longer than is sensible [or] necessary to achieve our mission's goal," he said. More than 70% of Poles oppose their country...