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- <text id=92TT1135>
- <title>
- May 25, 1992: Bakshi's Back and Basinger's Got 'Im
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 25, 1992 Waiting For Perot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 75
- Bakshi's Back and Basinger's Got 'Im
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- <p>By MICHAEL QUINN
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- <p> When animator RALPH BAKSHI debuted in 1972 with the
- X-rated escapade Fritz the Cat, his was a raw-edged voice in a
- wilderness of cloying cartoon cutesiness. Maybe too raw. His
- uneasy relationship with Hollywood ended many films later with
- 1981's American Pop -- or seemed to. "Now suddenly they all want
- animated films," Bakshi laughs, "and they figured out I was
- alive." The result is this summer's Cool World, Bakshi's live
- action/animated feature about a cartoon temptress who becomes
- "real" by seducing her creator, GABRIEL BYRNE. KIM BASINGER
- stars as the inkwell refugee, appearing both in cartoon guise
- and in the flesh. Bakshi's renewed respectability is summed up
- in Cool World's budget. His most expensive previous film cost
- $4 million. Cool World's bills totaled $28 million.
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- </body></article>
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