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...this week even Dukakis's home town of Brookline has joined the Duke-bashing by bringing suit against the state over the aid crisis. (Yesterday's Boston Globe featured an editorial cartoon in which a toga-clad Dukakis cries "Et tu, Brookline...
With his spindly legs, goatee and black New York Knicks cap, Spike Lee looks more like a cartoon character than the creator of the most controversial film of the summer. He is lean and wiry -- 120 lbs. tightly wound around a 5-ft. 6- in. frame. His hip, distinctively New York style has made him a familiar pop-culture image: stone-washed jeans, a Nike T shirt, a leather Public Enemy medallion around his neck, an ear stud and black Nike Air Jordans, practically his trademark since he appeared with basketball star Michael Jordan in Nike...
Ambitious goals, most of which are not realized. The film stints on narrative surprise. It prowls -- slowly, so slowly -- in search of grandeur, but it often finds murk. It permits a few inside jokes (a cartoon of a bat in a suit, drawn by Kane), but mines its main humor from the Joker's ribald misanthropy ("This town needs an enema"). Batman's style is both daunting and lurching; it has trouble deciding which of its antagonists should set the tone. It can be as manic as the Joker, straining to hear the applause of outrage...
Hollywood's challenge is to entertain as it informs. This fall TBS will introduce children to the cartoon villain Dr. Carbon on Captain Planet. Producer Paul Witt (Golden Girls) is developing a three-hour all-star "practical guide to saving the planet"; Witt hopes all three networks will air it simultaneously. In September a medley of pop stars will shoot Yakety Yak, a music video about recycling. Its refrain: "Yakety yak, take it back...
...1970s a TV cartoon series called Schoolhouse Rock used catchy tunes to teach children about everything from verbs to the Constitution. Now teacher Ross Kapstein of Atlanta has given that idea an '80s twist by writing and recording a rap-song tribute to the basic theories of economics. Employing a funky beat and styling the title, RUN G.N.P., after rap stars Run-D.M.C., Kapstein hopes to help his seventh-graders at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School remember concepts like the law of supply and demand. Sample verse: "People's tastes change and so do I/ If I want...