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But you can also tell that
Ralph Bakshi’s ‘American Pop’
By Dick Kleiner
SKETCHES FROM Ralph Bakshi’s next animated film,
“American Pop,” which carries the realistic techniques of
“Lord Of the Rings" even further.
came to the United States in
1900, showing the involve-
ment of each generation in the
music of that particular era.
And on down to the present.
"It’s about the American
melting pot,” Bakshi (himself
a product of a Russian immi-
grant family) says. “In a way,
it is an animated ‘Roots.’ ”
He likes to kid around and
calls "American Pop” “proba-
bly the worst movie of all
time — it may very well end
my career.” But you can tell
that, in reality, he is very
HOLLYWOOD • At Ralph
Bakshi’s office, you can often
hear his voice bellowing
through the corridors, “Hey,
Disney, come here!” Or, for
variety’s sake, “Get me
Disney!”
It is something that very
much amuses the big, burley,
black-bearded Bakshi, per-
haps the logical inheritor of
Walt Disney’s animation
mantle.
He is a great admirer of
Walt Disney - at least, the
early and experimental Dis-
ney - and he likes the fact
that one of his employees *
today is Roy Disney Jr.
Most people automatically
think that Walt Disney, would
have hated some — maybe all
- of Bakshi’s work. But Bak-
shi h.: nself doesn't think so.
“I regret Disney never saw
‘Fritz the Cat,' ” Bakshi says,
“I think he would have loved
it. People say he was old-fash-
ioned, but he loved new
things"
And Bakshi is, if nothing
else, an innovator. In his most
recent feature film, “Lord Of
the Rings,” he innovated an
animation style based on ani-
mating from live action
photographs. He says that
Disney, himself, had “fooled
around” with that sort of
animation, but kept it secret.
Bakshi’s next, now nearing
completion, is called "Ameri-
can Pop” and carries the real-
istic techniques of “Lord Of
the Rings” even further.
But Bakshi doesn't think too
much should be made of the
way in which he works. He
says that a technique, such as
the one he is using, is only a
technique, nothing more.
“People talked about it as
revolutionary,” he says, “but
it isn’t. It’s just a technique.”
He also objects to some of
the rumors — including many
that reached print — which
said that the technique con-
sisted of using live photo-
graphs and simply tracing
over them for animation. He
says that simply wasn’t so.
“We didn’t trace over shots
at all,” he says. "The artists
just used the photographs as
guides.”
He also gets a laugh — a
very hollow one — out of the
stories that this technique
make animation cheaper. He
says it is, in fact, more expen-
sive. "Just the photographs
alone," he says, “cost me five
bucks apiece.”
As for “American Pop,” it
is a look at the kinds of pop —
music and culture — for close
to a century. The film will fol-
low several generations of an
immigrant’s family, as it proud of it.
lived in Russia in 1890 and
over 2300 *
items to rent £
Hwy 281 765-7605 •
By LOUISE COOK
Associated Preu Writer
Remember when coffee cost
less than $1 a pound? When
hamburger wasn’t much more
than than? When milk was
less than 40 cents a quart?
It’s not so long ago. An
Associated Press market-
basket survey shows grocery
prices have nearly doubled in
The Austrian Institute of Eco-
nomic Research says Austrian
firms intend to increase their
investments in 1900 by 7 per-
cent in real terms.
the last seven years and
February brought another
increase.
The AP drew up a random
list of commonly purchased
food and non-food items early
in 1973. The prices were
checked on March 1 that year
at one supermarket in each of
13 cities and have been
rechecked on or about the
the future, a properly pro-
grammed car may be able to
understand you, researchers
say.
Researchers from three
companies briefed reporters
on their projects in speech
synthesis and speech recogni-
tion Tuesday before presen-
ting papers at the convention
of the Society of Automotive
Engineers.
According to the scientists,
the Air Force more than 20
years ago started using tape-
recorded voices to warn pilots
something was wrong. A vocal
warning “may well be more
effective. I’ve known people to
keep right on driving after the
Tow oil pressure' light came
on,” said Richard Higgins of
Texas Instruments.
Cheap micro-computers
synthesizing human speech
would never wear out, would
have no moving parts and
would be cheaper, he said.
“It can be done right now,”
said Gil liscano of Threshold
Technology Inc. “But there
are hard questions. What does
it cost? Do people really want
it?”
The other side of the conver-
sation, of course, is from
driver to car. Janice Baker of
Dialog Systems Inc. said a car
might incorporate a device to
unlock the doors only on hear-
ing the owner’s voice. But she
said researchers are trying to
find ways to get such devices
to respond to a master with a
bad cold.
Transportation of future
may be able to talk back
DETROIT (AP) — Feel like
cussing out the family car? In
start of each succeeding
month.
Among the highlights of the
latest survey:
—The average market-
basket bill at the checklist
stores is 87 percent higher
today than it was on March 1,
1973. That means it costs
about one and four-fifths times
as much to buy the market-
basket items as it did seven
years ago.
—The marketbasket bill
increased at the checklist
store in eight cities during
February and decreased in
five cities. An an overall basis,
the bill at the start of March
was 1.1 percent higher than it
was a month earlier. The rate
of increase was steeper than
in January — when the
average marketbasket bill
rose seven-tenths of a percent
— but it was less than half as
bad as during December —
when the average total
jumped 2.6 percent.
—Higher sugar prices were
to blame for much of the
February increase in the AP
marketbasket. The price of
sugar on world markets has
risen from an average of 8
cents a pound in the first half
of last year to 21 cents a pound
in the first weeks of February.
The price of a five-pound
sack of sugar increased at the
checklist store in 12 of the 13
cities surveyed by the AP and
was unchanged in the 13th
city. Increases ranged from
just under a nickel to almost
half a dollar.
—There were scattered
bargains at the meat counter.
Pork prices have been
declining as hog production
increases and the price of
center-cut pork chops declined
during February at the
checklist store in seven cities,
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Survey shows market prices
have doubled in seven years
the AP found.
—Egg prices continued to
drop. The cost of a dozen eggs
dropped during February at
the checklist store in 11 cities
and rose in two.
No attempt was made to
weight the AP survey results
according to population
density or in terms of what
percent of a family’s actual
grocery outlay each item
represents. The AP did not try
to compare actual prices from
city to dty. The only com-
parisons were made in terms
of percentages of increase or
decrease
The items on the AP
checklist were: chopped
chuck, center cut pork chops,
frozen orange juice con-
centrate, coffee, paper towels,
butter, Grade-A medium
white eggs, creamy peanut
butter, laundry detergent,
fabric softener, tomato sauce,
milk, frankfurters and
granulated sugar. The cities
checked were: Albuquerque,
N.M., Atlanta, Boston,
Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los
Angeles, Miami, New York,
Philadelphia, Providence,
R.I., Salt Lake City and
Seattle.
making an animated feature
film these days is terribly
hard work. Bakshi heads a
team of about 100 artists —
“this was much calmer than
‘Lord Of the Rings’; on that
one we had 300” - and the
work is endless.
He has been gloomy about
animation’s future. All along,
he had hoped that others
would jump on the bandwagon
he built with his trail-blazing
animated features - "Fritz
the Cat,” “Heavy Traffic," .
“Coonskin” and then “Lord Of
the Rings.”
“But there has been no sign
of any attempt by anyone else
to get into adult animation,”
he says, which depressed him.
But he is a natural optimist
and “American Pop” has him
feeling up again.
“If'Pop' is successful,” he
says, “that could be a big dif-
ference in the future of
animation.
Still, he doesn’t feel com-
pletely covered with rose
petals. The dichotomy
Between animated films and
live films still exists and still
bothershim
“If I had the same success
with live films as I’ve had
with animation,” he says, “I’d
get the best table at Chasen's.
“After each film I’ve made,
I screamed, This is my last.'
An animated ‘Roots’?
By Connie Fletcher
American Library Assn.
The cartoonist's first duty is
to puncture pretense — to
show us the world as we've
always secretly suspected it
to be: a place where fate is a
banana peel and all the inhab-
itants no matter how sober-
sided they try to appear are
slightly mad.
The cartoonist can feed us
the truth about society and
ourselves in larger doses than
the preacher or philosopher
because we’re cao'glft WRh our Albert Hirschfi
defenses down We laugh and
learn. So the cartoonist can
depict adult life as a bunch of
scared, confused little kids as
Charles Schulz does with his
“Peanuts” gang; or depict an
out-of-control government
bureaucracy manned by the
power-
Trudeau
jnesbury
a needy family”) and their
belief that the world exists
only for them (a distinguished
gentleman asks a harried sub-
way conductor: “Will this
train take me anywhere near
the Racquet Club?”). A bum
reading the label on a bottle
of wine represents the under-
side of Arno’s world “...It is
pleasant accompaniment to
fish, shellfish and the lighter
meats, but its delicate flavor
is perhaps even more appreci-
ated at the end of the meal
with melon or dessert.”
is another
cartoonist who works, like
Peter Arno, as a line man
rather than a colorist, and
whose drawings also date
back to 1925. Hirschfeld's
province is the Broadway
theater; he’s been delivering
his telling caricatures of
Broadway stars for the New
York Times for more than 50
years. Hirschfeld has been
called “the archivist and his-
torian of Broadway” and the
collection “Hirschfeld” is
filled with Broadway actors
and actresses.
It also includes movie stars
poets singers and dancers —
readers can savor the elongat-
ed jawbone of Lynn Redgrave,
the woeful eyes of Baryshni-
kov, the odd symmetry of
Katherine Hepburn’s face.
New York Times critic John
Russell, who provides the pre-
face to this work, dubs Hirsch-
feld “an enjoyer, not a
destroyer.” The cornucopia of
playful vibrant cartoons in
“Hirshfeld” is truly a celebra-
tion of a unique cast of play-
ers.
“Tales from the Margaret
Mead Taproom,” a prose-car-
toon collaboration between
syndicated columnist Nicho-
las von Hoffman and Pulitzer-
Prize winning cartoonist Gar-
ry B. Trudeau takes us from
the world of the sophisticated
to the world of the near-
crazed. (This is the first
paperback appearance of the
incompetent and
hungry, as Garry 1
does with his Dooi
gang. Cartooning can mean
the art of gentle ribbing as in
Al Hirschfeld's loving carica-
tures, or the fights and foibles
of a by-gone era as in Peter
Amo's Jazz Age drawings.
"Peter Arno” presents 248
cartoons and line drawings
(236 original New Yorker
cartoons) from the late great
chronicler of the Roaring '20s
Although this collection
encompasses the period from
1925 to Amo's death in 1968.
his heart was always in the
'20s — high society living at
high speed It's a world of cho-
rus girls, lecherous monocled
old men, overstuffed
dowagers, faintly sneering
butlers and maitre d’s, a
world comprised of
nightclubs, cabarets and
showgirl's dressing rooms
where Arno’s walrus-mus-
tached hero Cadwallader
looks on, bewildered and
awkward.
Arno jabs at the absurdities
of the glittering rich, their
total ignorance that anything
exists beyond their sphere (a
butler sternly reprimands a
group collecting for the
needy; “I can't help what
address you have. We are not
Dick Kleiner
And I got out and set up deals
to make live action films — in
the past few years, I’ve
walked away from four live
action deals The thing is, 1
guess I love this more than I
think I do.
“De Laurentiis offered me
$1.5 million to direct ‘Flash
Gordon' for him. I turned it
down. I never told my wife,
about that one, though.”
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
1
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AL HIRSCHFELD’S self-portrait from Ms new book,
“Hirschfeld by Hirschfeld.” /
PETER ARNO by Peter Amo (Dodd, Mo^, 810.9S)
HIRSCHFELD BY HIRSCHFELD by Al HirechtoM (Dodd, Mead,
815.00)
TALES FROM THE MARGARET MEAD TAPROOM by Nfchotoa von
Hoffman and Garry B. Trudeau (Andrews and McMaei, 84.86)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLIE BROWN by Lao Mendafaon in aaeo-
ciation with Chartoe M. Schulz (Random Howes, SMJM)
and the special techniques
used in translating Charlie to
TV and film, as well as a
beguiling history of the
“Peanuts* crew.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
satire, published in cloth in
1976.) Tales” set in Ameri-
can Samoa, asks the question:
“What can spoil an unspoiled
tropical paradise?” (Answer
the importation of American
bureaucrats and social work-
ers, freeze-dried foods, televi-
sion and Coca-Cola.)
Von Hoffman writes a slap-
stick "Road to Samoa”
account of how he, Garry and
five other thrill seekers vaca-
tioned in Samoa He also
delivers a serious probe of
what American imperialism
has done to the island; name-
ly, ruined it. Von Hoffman’s
narrative is punctuated by
Trudeau’s hilarious strips
describing the “Gonzo Gover-
norship” of Uncle Duke (a
thinly disguised send-up of
journalist Hunter S. Thomp-
son Jr.). Uncle Duke gets cor-
rupted very easily by power
and frozen daiquiris — he
regard* his governorship as
the ultimate patronage plum
and will sacrifice anything,
including hard-to-get vestal
virgins, to retain it
“Happy Birthday, Charlie
Brown" celebrates 30 years of
the “Peanuts” comic strip, 15
years of TV specials and 10
years of movies. While neither
as inclusive nor as enterpris-
ing as the 1975 “Peanuts
Jubilee," “Happy Birthday,
( harlie Brown*' contains Some
traneportaticn and utilities;
Baylor president back
on Education Commission
Laugh and learn
Cartoonist hope drawings will show life’s insight
million privately employed
workers in non-fann in-
dustries, measures changes in
base wages only and dote not
count increases from over-
time pay or fringe benefits.
The average wage increase
for 1979 was well above the
voluntary 7 percent ceiling set
by President Carter as part of
his anti-inflation program.
But administration officiate
contend the increase in wages
was modest relative to the rise
in inflation and that wages
would have climbed even
higher had there been no
guidelines.
Carter is expected to
replace the 7 percent ceiling
this year with a guideline
range of 72 percent to 9.5
percent proposed by an ad-
visory committee composed of
labor, business and public
representatives.
The Labor Department said
the jump in wage rates in 1979
was spurred by a record 2.4
percent increase for the year’s
last quarter. Inflation ad-
vanced even faster, however,
with consumer prices jumping
3.2 percent during the period.
The previous record in-
crease in wage rates for a
single quarter was 11 percent,
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -
Gov. BUI Clements reap-
pointed Baylor University
President Abner McCall on
Monday to the Education
Commission of the States.
Other appointments an-
nounced by Clements were:
Katherine Crumley of
Shepherd to the Board of
Directors of the Texas
Housing Agency. Mrs.
set during the second quarter
of 1971 and the third quarter of
1978.
For the year, wages roae 8.1
percent for white-collar
workers, ranging from a low
of 7.4 percent for menagers
and administrators to 8.4
percent for clerical workers.
Wagee roae 8 percent for blue-
collar workers and 72 percent
for service employees.
Wages wore up 8.6 percent
in manufacturing; 72 percent
in construction; 8.4 percent in
Crumley, 10, is librarian at
Shepherd High School.
Joseph C. Garza of McAllen,
president of Valley Federal
Savings and Loan, to the
Texas Guaranteed Student
Loan Corporation.
Robert E. Flaherty and Ray
Vaughn, both of Austin, to the
Texas Committee on Pur-
chases of Blind-made
rroaucis ana services.
WASHINGTON (AP)-The
average working American
loot ground to inflation for a
second straight year in 1979
despite a record 8.7 percent
rise in wages, new govern-
ment figures show.
The Labor Department
reported Thursday that the
annual rise in base wage and
salary rates of privately
employed workers last year
was the highest since the
government first developed its
Employment Cost Index in
1975.
But the 8.7 percent rise in
wage rates was more than
eaten up by a 13.3 percent rise
in consumer prices during
1979, resulting in a net decline
in purchasing power.
The average wage-earner’s
purchasing power also
declined in 1978, when con-
sumer prices rose 9 percent
while wage and salary rates
advanced 7.7 percent.
According to the Em-
ployment Cost Index, wage
rates rose 7 percent in 1977
and 7.2 percent in 1976. Con-
sumer prices, by comparison,
rose 6.8 percent in 1977 and 4.8
percent in 1976.
The index, based on a
survey of the estimated 65
Inflation 2, consumers 0;
economics war continues
HTNC.TON (API-The million orivatelv emoloved set during the second quarter transportation and utilities;
7.9 percent in wholeeale and
retail trade; 132 percent in
finance, inaurance and real
eetato, and 82 percent in
service induetriee.
By region, wages were up
72 percent in the Northeast,
12 percent in the South end
West, end 8.4 percent in the
Midwest.
Wages rose 8 percent for
unionised workers and 12
percent for non-union
workers, the government snid.
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