Posted 10:32 AM by Gene

I must mention this today, on King National Sales Day: Several months ago someone posted some screenshots from the notorious Warner cartoon "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs." This has long been a cause celebre of certain animation phreaks who believe it's been unjustly slandered. One look at these pictures, however, and it is obvious why the TWXSTERS will never make it public again. If this were Amos 'n' Andy we could understand, but these characters are analogues to hook-nosed Jews, or the slanty-eyed Orientals and retarded Indians who graced too many of this studio's masterworks (and we adore Warner cartoons as much as anyone).

AND YET, we recall how the late Gerry "The Poet" Levin shuddered like the last leaf dangling on the winter bough defending his company's right to distribute [C]RAP, and PEOPLE WARNER probably uses more theatrical blood than anyone else in Hollywood. (We further note the TWXSTERS reacquired this property from MOUTH, whose functionaries so nitpickingly censored cartoons for television they took the joy out of them.) We mustn't forget the reason the FCC has had so much trouble with dirty words is that the people doing the censoring have NO COMMON SENSE. At some point we must sit down and decide what is and isn't beyond the pale. As long as we have TWXSTERS and BRENTS and B. S. DEFENDERS, that point recedes further into the distant future.