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Saturday-morning cartoon shows have featured characters representing Yogi Bear when he was a teen and Roseanne as a little girl. Next February, George Lucas will bring Young Indiana Jones to TV. Look out for a backlash among children tired of hand-me-down heroes...
...wannabes. And Mattel is introducing a line of toys that includes miniature gladiator action figures and small-scale models of events such as the obstacle course, known as the Eliminator. In Hollywood fevered brains are at work, of course, trying to think of a way to develop an animated cartoon series and a movie from all this. "We haven't figured out how to do that yet," confesses Samuel Goldwyn Jr., whose company owns the rights to the show. "Just guys in gladiator suits solving crimes...
...Channel-at 25 Necco St. in Boston. Call 451-1905. Thursday: Bentmen with Biohazard, Type O Negative and Toxic Narcotic. 18 and over. Saturday: Cartoon Factory with Mystery Jones, Paris, Posse NFX and Mr. Dizzy. Tuesday: Armored Saint with Wrath Child America and Last Crack. 18 and over. Wednesday: Acoustic Alchemy. 18 and over...
Coupland documents the plight of Generation X through both narrative and frequent marginal comments. He dots the side-lines of his story with meaningless slogans, cryptic cartoons and biting definition of twentysomething life. A bumper sticker asks us to "Reinvent the Middle Class." A cartoon character informs his father, "You can either have a house or a life...I'm having a life." And everywhere there are definitions, capturing the essence of twentysomething life...
...overanalyze the humor of The Simpsons, to start to view it not as the funniest show in a long, long time, but as a cultural product of the 1990s, as the ultimate funhouse mirror of American society, reflecting its movies, music, and television in grotesque orange-fleshed, big-headed cartoon characters...