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- <text id=90TT1693>
- <title>
- June 25, 1990: The Great Cartoon Cash-In
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- The Great Cartoon Cash-In
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p> Hollywood is holding its breath, waiting to measure the
- box-office potential of Warren Beatty's $30 million Dick Tracy,
- which opened last weekend. But the film community's anxiety has
- not stopped movie moguls from laying plans to bring more comic
- characters to the screen:
- </p>
- <p>CAPTAIN AMERICA
- </p>
- <p> Matt Salinger, actor son of the reclusive novelist J.D.,
- stars as the World War II superhero. He battles archrival the
- Red Skull in this film set for autumn release.
- </p>
- <p>BLONDIE
- </p>
- <p> The Disney company hopes to follow its Tracy flick with a
- new musical version of the classic comic strip. Oscar-winning
- screenwriter Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) will pen the
- script.
- </p>
- <p>THE FLINTSTONES
- </p>
- <p> Here's another '60s cartoon planned as a live-action film.
- Producers are hoping to cast Roseanne's John Goodman as Fred and
- British comedian Tracey Ullman as his long-suffering wife Wilma.
- </p>
- <p>BRENDA STARR
- </p>
- <p> Filmed in 1986, this Brooke Shields-Timothy Dalton vehicle
- has been tangled in lawsuits ever since. If Dick Tracy proves to
- be a big hit, producers could dust it off for a wide release.
- </p>
- <p>THE JETSONS
- </p>
- <p> The space-age family won't be played by live actors in this
- film set for summer release. Teen-dream pop singer Tiffany
- provides the voice of George Jetson's daughter Judy.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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