Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), July 2, 1988, p. 11

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HILLS OUTLOOK Page 11 Entertainment Outlook On the defenceforBugsand company read the hit the world animated against the ridiculous charges thai car toon violence is kely warp young My posit on on quite clear Show me someone who honestly be that a child be damaged by watching E Coyote blow h mseB up with an Missile from the Acme Corp and show you someone who can I understand why the florae who played Mr Ed has never appeared on any talk illegal an rely Th is truly ach In other word there is clearly something In hose spinach cans which explains his sudden bursts of energy and which qu probably premature baldness In short Rev W Idmon has just alerted us to a terrible possibility thai there may have been or decades and decades rampant substance abuse amongst cartoon character And now loyal cartoon fans must back and wail lor the crushing that are sure lo come now the truth has begun to leak out That once a week Bugs Bunny makes mysterious purchases from Rocky and Muggsy That Warner Bra then executives are on the verge of checking Sam into the Belly Ford Clinic Good grief Talk a loss of Inno cence Talk about Ihc shattering of PHOTO REPRINTS appealing In The Herald 8772201 But this The Rev Donald Idmon a M preacher who tors sex and violence In the a has just laid a terrible charge M Mouse a recent episode Rev I re veals the hero was clearly depicted snorting cocaine Oh good Lord Where as so many disillusioned Ideal have moaned be fore me will all end I have been a loyal watcher of car toons for years and years at leas I since IBorso whenlcameto the sudden reallzat on while fl pp ng through the TV Guide one day thai Bugs Bunny was the only decent adult show on TV These days fact 1 am watching even more cartoons than ever a phe nomenon which arises from sharing 11 v ing quarter with a threeyearold Now granted I have never argued that cartoons are perfect It is unde niably true a lot of the modern car toons are pretty second rate and may even promote va lues The aforementioned threeyearold for instance actually seems to prefer the Care Bears to Bugs Bunny And It Is disturbing to discover that an otherwise well adjusted boy would Insist on watch ng Tender Heart and his insuffe rable Utile gushing on about love and friendship when we could just as easily change channels and watch Elmer shoot Daffy beak off Mighty Mouse something else shattering his millions And ithesn ffics According to Rev the clear and bio lant Mighty Mouse Is down n dumpj and he reaches cape pulls a substance and s through his nostrils Mercifully a den was sued Apparently Rev i letUr den thai M Mouse or any other character was shown sniffing cocaine And the pro ducer of the episode explains he hero was merely sniffing crushed flowers Well Such denials come as a great comfort And yet a terrible doubt True we are overjoyed lo hear Mighty Mouse sniffs nothing more than crushed flowers On the other hand f crushed flowers a t well odd And when you slop to think about there ls something about Mighty Mouse that Just doesnt add up Put it this way Here is a small rodent who nonetheless has massively overdeveloped biceps and pectorals and who files about per forming breathtaking feats of strength conclusion but in this sounds very much like a mouse who takes anabolic steroids And come to think of It what about some of Mighty Mouse fellow film stars- like We are Intelligent adults We know you do not become strong to the finish purely and simply by eating your spin ASK DICK KLEINER What sent angel to Heaven By Dick Kleiner Dear Dick Could you please me how Jonathan Michael London on Highway Heaven died and became an anger JA Saginaw Mich Dear JAY There have been explanations for Jonathan dc offered In one episode for ex ample he told Mark Victor French he smoked too much and died of lung cancer But there have been other reasons given on other episodes When pressed an NBC executive simply shrugged and said This Is television what can tell you Dear Dick When I wax a kid In the I u a movie The Iron Mil with Alan as Jim Bowie When was made and are copies available Reldsvllle C That I Im which also starred V rg Mayo was made n 1952 It has not been put on a video cassette There no real demand for it was a second rate western to begin with and they were a me a Dear Dick I trying to find the name of a movie from the a young man Joel who was shipwrecked on an Island controlled by an evil man He was given a chance to survive If he could outrun and hide from all the weapons aimed at him Mr Council Bluffs Dear Mrs AS The film The Most Dangerous Game was released in 1932 Dear Dick Isn t Deborah tlno who play Susan tbe handy man on Hooperman the tame tret was the Michael Landon Deb rah Fa rent too Denning on daytime soap- Capitol But t seem to me that was her name I thought she bad an Irish name Lowell Mass Dear She did She was Debo rah Mullowney then but she married actor James Fa rent no and took his name She thought of hyphenating It but Deborah Mullowney would have taken up three lines in the TV listings She now spells her rst name Deb rah

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