A local lawyer is suing the town and a councillor over a letter to the editor printed in an Edmonton newspaper that compared the lawyer to a popular cartoon character. Lawyer Larry McConnell filed the lawsuit at the Court of Queen�s Bench on March 31 naming the Town of Whitecourt and councillor Don Guenette as defendants. According to the statement of claim, a letter to the editor appeared in the Edmonton Journal on Feb. 22 written by Guenette. The letter was in response to a story in the Edmonton Journal where the writer interviewed McConnell about nuclear power. Guenette�s letter compared McConnell and another person interviewed in the story to television cartoon characters. McConnell is now suing Guenette for defamation. � ... the letter to the editor infers that the plaintiff lacks integrity, is capable of mean or contemptible acts, has a tendency towards violence and brutality, in addition to other embarrassing qualities all of which Guenette inferred in an effort to ridicule and demean the plaintiff in public,� the statement of claim says.

Mannequins and cartoon cat vie for controversial Turner Prize

LONDON: A mannequin perched on the toilet vied with a cartoon cat yesterday to land the Turner Prize, the controversial British award that annually sparks a heated debate about what is art.
Critics may lambast the shortlist as pretentious claptrap but the Turner has recognised Britart stars like Damien Hirst and the exhibition attracts up to 70,000 fans a year.
Not a single painter made the shortlist for the 2008 Turner, which is dominated by filmmakers and video artistes.
Mark Leckey splices together images of the Simpsons, presents clips from the Titanic movie and confesses to an obsession with cartoon star Felix The Cat.
Cathy Wilkes displays shop mannequins squatting on the toilet and sitting with leftover bits of dried porridge at their feet.
Bangladeshi-born Runa Islam re-creates cult cinema scenes from Ingmar Bergman films along with footage from the car park used in the Michael Caine thriller ‘Get Carter'.

Columbia's Heet finishing strong

She may be the closest embodiment we have to a cartoon character, but it wasn't funny when Columbia junior Jenn Heet had the proverbial anvil dropped on her strawberry blonde head.Early in her sophomore soccer season, Heet, well known as an avatar of tongue-extended zany faces in the heat of the action, instead featured a rictus of pain as she blew out her right knee in a seemingly innocuous challenge with Gibault senior Megan Schilling.The blow ended Heet's campaign and threw cold water on the Eagles in their quest for a return to the state title game, which they had narrowly lost to Chicago Latin in 2006."It was a big loss last year because she is a leader on the field," Columbia soccer coach Steve Ross said. "She is a communicator and she is very aggressive, anticipates very well. Having somebody like that back there is a luxury.

Ben 10: Alien Force Game Creator Lands on CartoonNetwork.com to Massive Viewer Adoption and Record Game PlayScreen ...

ATLANTA, BUSINESS WIRE -- Cartoon Network's avid Ben 10 fan base launched more than 380,000 new online games in one week at CN.com with Ben 10: Alien Force Game Creator, Cartoon Network New Media's first online game to incorporate user-generated content. The user-generated game hit the site May 5 and garnered more than 20 million game plays its first week online, outstripping the site's previous debut-week game play record of 5 million set in March by Ben 10 Alien Force: Forever Defense.

The game's immediate success also yielded record-breaking unique visitors numbers for CartoonNetwork.com with more than 1 million unique visitors every day for the week of May 5-11. The site hit a record high for the week beginning May 4, with more than 5 million unique visitors. Saturday May 10, CartoonNetwork.com clocked 1.5 million unique visitors, a single-day record.

Tourists will say 'Hello Kitty'

JAPAN is appointing the feline cartoon character Hello Kitty as a goodwill tourism ambassador in China and Hong Kong.

The ministry, which has so far appointed 11 people as goodwill tourism ambassadors, said the global icon was "qualified" for the job due to its popularity among Chinese people, it said.