g Dustin Hoffman as Pop

is girlfrie

film. But according to Westsider Jules Feiffer, who is now writing the script for Popeye the Sailor, the original comic strip in the daily newspapers was the work of "an unrecogn

ye and Bluto. That was never part of the strip. It's more along the lines of the traditional cartoon of the 1940s, which could f

wn as a cartoonist, he has gained a reputation as a playwright for both the stage (Knock, Knock and Little Murders) and

to buy food and drawing materials. And long periods of unemployment." He planned all along to become a cartoonist. "I was

d publish his work until a day in 1956 when Feiffer, age 27, took a batch of his best 'toons to the office of a n

oring stories to their own taste. The Voice," says Feiffer, "existed for the artist's taste and the write

rote about dissent; it was considered revolutionary, and

s or so before my work came to be talked about, and publishers began to offer book contracts." Syndication took place a few years la

it was published this past summer - that project was Ackroyd, an unconventional detective-type novel in which the characters are too human to keep their

... Coded language is used to guide our lives, to frame our relationships with people." Feiffer's main character takes the name Roger Ackroyd and trie

g. Others wondered what the hell the book was about and why I bothered to write it." Feiffer takes the good an

ch started the revival, because it was done very successfully. Then it was brought back to New York the following

on a customary depressing note, saying that he is ge

"I'd be ashamed of that title. I don't think the Broadway t

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GERALDINE

director