The envelope, please ...
Tune out the Oscars. Here are the winners of this week’s Toonies:
* Least-supported roles in a dark tragedy: Mark Cohen’s grim portrayal of the Darfur humanitarian disaster.
* Best bad actors in an epic foreign adventure: Mike Keefe’s ominous ensemble cast of caricatures.
* Best direction taken: Mike Luckovich’s excellent metaphorical adventure culminated a week of cartoons on Dubya’s Dubai ports deal.
* Best picture: Ann Telnaes, schooled as a Disney animator, always gets her lines right. Here she beautifully captures the brutal reality of freedoms restrained. Two thumbscrews up, and cast her a golden likeness of Thomas Nast, Paul Conrad, Herblock ... anyone but Muhammad.
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