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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. We can only hope glasses of ice water were distributed to those lucky enough to sit in Studio 8H for Saturday nights episode of Saturday Night Live. As if Regé-Jean Page appearing as an "extremely hot sex man" guest host (as Aidy Bryantput it) werent enough, musical guest Bad Bunny put things over the top in the hunk department. The 26-year-old Puerto Rican singer (whose non-malicious leporine name is Benito Antonio Mart�...

From Snoopy and Gremlins to "Star Wars," Marvel, and more — here are some exciting animated offerings of 2021 and beyond.

Cartoons, JFK’s Victory and Other Letters to the Editor Credit...Simone Martin-Newberry To the Editor: I am everything but a Black, queer, nonbinary American. Born and educated in England, I am a white, straight, unequivocally female naturalized citizen. Danez Smith’s review of Robert Jones Jr.’s novel, “The Prophets” (Jan. 17), opened my eyes to a perspective I had never thought about and surprised my heart wide open with its lyrical charge and fierce passion. Smithâ�...

The 2020 Jim Ridley Film Poll Dedicated to late Scene editor and critic Jim Ridley, our poll asks critics, cinephiles and industry insiders about 2020 in film Tweet First Cow Given the chaos and enervating travails of 2020, it was going to be a challenge to find the right assortment of folks to get at the heart of this unpredictable year in cinema. An international assemblage of critics, filmmakers, podcasters, teachers, actors, exhibitors, publicists, festival programm...

By Peter Tonguette Correpsondent Most people would identify Snow White, Grumpy, and Sleepy as cartoon characters, but it would have been a mistake to call them that within earshot of Walt Disney. Upon the release of his masterpiece “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937, Disney objected to a journalist describing his film as a “cartoon.” “It’s no more a cartoon,” Disney said, “than a painting by Whistler is a cartoon.” In an exhaustive and highly entertaining new b...

Alabama News NEW from MeTV: “Toon In With Me” You can catch MeTVs "Toon In With Me” weekdays from 6 AM - 6:30 AM and Saturday Morning Cartoons starting at 6 AM on your MeTV Montgomery! Updated: MeTV  announces the launch of the new original morning show  Toon In With Me! The weekday one-hour hosted series will feature original comedy sketches, special guests, interviews, games and more, produced to lead into many of the greatest classic cartoon shorts ever made. Also announced is the l...

Scott Thomas Anderson December 31, 2020Updated: January 3, 2021, 5:25 pm Leon Schlesinger, the producer who created Warner Brothers’ “Looney Tunes,” meets Porky Pig in the 1940 short film “You Ought to Be in Pictures.” Photo: Cartoon Research , Cartoon Research In 1932, cinema screens were glowing with a Betty Boop cartoon called “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You.” This animated dream of cannibalism debuted some of the first live-action footage ever o...

Animation’s Early Days: Artists, Hucksters, Talking Mice and Pigs Max Fleischer with Betty BoopCredit...Fleischer Studios, Inc. Buy Book ▾ By Michael Tisserand By Reid Mitenbuler All swims were adult swims in the early days of American animation. Hand-drawn shapes frolicked and misbehaved before an audience that reacted with shock at this new life they were witnessing. Cartoons could be delightful and winsome, but they could also be as unsettling as anything else that was breaking new...

‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By the time Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” premiered at Manhattan’s Broadway Theater on Nov. 13, 1940, what had started out as an animated short to revive Mickey Mouse’s flagging career had become a feature-length extravaganza. Images in the movie channeled evolutionary theory...

Paramount Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Robin Williams as Popeye, Wesley Ivan Hurt as Swee’Pea and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in 1980’s Popeye. Robert Altman directed Williams — who stepped in for original star Dustin Hoffman — and Shelley Duvall in the film. The Hollywood Reporters critic deemed it a "disappointment," but the movie went on to box office success. Popeye, which turns 40 this month, owes a debt to another beloved character: Little Orphan Annie. Producer Robert Eva...