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Directing a cartoon, like directing a full-length movie, requires total immersion in every aspect of the creation. Jones worked on the story with the writer, made all the important drawings himself, supervised the background painting, even collaborated on the sound effects and music. He habitually speaks of his characters as if they were people ("The Coyote fulfills Santayana's definition of a fanatic-someone who redoubles his efforts when he's forgotten his aim"). Moreover, he thinks of them as people who make ideal actors: they can achieve any facial expression or gesture the director desires, thus...
Bullins wrote The Reluctant Rapist over the past ten years in between working on the most extraordinary project any American playwright has ever undertaken, a series of 20 full-length plays on the black experience in America that Bullins calls his "Twentieth Century Cycle." Comparing the five plays in the cycle already completed (In the Wine Time, In New England Winter, The Duplex, The Fabulous Miss Marie, and Home Boy) with The Reluctant Rapist it becomes painfully clear that there is no transitive law of genius between playwrights and novelists...
Colorful Crew. A number of other features are far more satisfying. The front of the magazine is dominated by staccato reportage under the heading "The Insider." The terse items on politics, journalism, show business and consumer affairs are uniformly lively and informative. A full-length piece by Joan Barthel attacking the stratospheric costs of medical care is solidly done. Ruth Gruber contributes an absorbing profile of Valery Panov, the Russian dancer whom Soviet authorities are persecuting because he wants to emigrate to Israel...
Thus radicals can charge it with promulgating colonialism and warmongering; thus Nixon and Agnew can view it as a test of moral vigor; thus sociologists can see in it a full-length portrait of America. The operative word is see. Like politics and pornography, football tends to yield a reflection of the onlooker who finds what he seeks. And there are more seekers all the time. This week, as the season picks up velocity, the words of Sonny Werblin, former owner of the Jets, take on a special autumnal tang. In the '60s, Werblin found his night flight stacked...
...prepare for her article on "Disney After Walt," Show Business Writer Judy Fayard sat through three full-length Disney cartoons, all of which she had seen before. The spell lingered, too, for she wore a Mouseketeer hat as she wrote the story...