The Simpsons

By Oriol Sentis

The Simpsons is an American cartoon series for television concerning the affairs of adult people. It was created by Matt Groening in 1989 and explains the daily life of an American middle-class family, whose members are Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. The series is a satire and criticism of American society.

The Simpsons takes place in the fictional American city of Springfield. It was the first television series produced by Fox and reached the 30 top series in the ratings.

Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the nuclear power plant in Springfield. He is married to Marge, a stereotypical American housewife with three children: Bart, 10 years old, Lisa, 8 years old, and Maggie, a baby.

The family owns a dog, Santa's Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball II. Both pets have been involved in one episode. The Simpsons do not age and they look the same as they did in the late 80's.

Bart Simpson's character is the protagonist in most of the episodes of the first three seasons, but then Homer takes his place.

Anastasia, the movie

By Anastasia Macovei

The movie Anastasia is an animation movie, produced in 1997 by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. It was nominated for two Oscars and one Golden Globe and it won eight other prizes. Fox Interactive also released a video game, on PlayStation 1, entitled “Anastasia: Adventures with Pooka and Bartok”.

The story begins in 1916 in the old Russian empire, in San Petersburg, where people are celebrating the tricentenary of the Romanov dynasty and the Empress Marie gives a present to her 8-year-old granddaughter: a musical box with a special melody.

Rasputin makes a revolution against the Tsar and his family. Dimitri, a little boy, saves Anastasia and her grandmother. Then they go to the train station and the grandmother leaves but Anastasia cannot get on the train, because she hurts her head. Ten years later, Marie offers a reward to find Anastasia and Dimitri wants to mislead Marie with another girl and says that she is the real Anastasia. They travel to Paris and Dimitri teaches her how to be a real princess, and all the things she needs to know. But listening to the music of the music box Dimitri realizes she is Anastasia...

MUSIC

The soundtrack of this movie was composed, co-orchestrated and conducted by David Newman, and the songs were written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. All these songs were released on CD and audio cassettes on October 28th 1997.

INSPECTOR GADGET

Sílvia Rovirosa

Inspector Gadget is a television cartoon series.

The series is about an inspector with bad luck, who is a little confused and is equipped with various gadgets on his body. He can fly with his hat because it has helicopter propellers inside. His shoes can become skis or wheels, and furthermore, he has other things like flashlights or hammers that come out of his body.

In the cartoons, there are more characters, such as Sophie, who is 9 years old and is the most intelligent character; Sultan, Sophie’s dog, who can dress up; the boss, who sends him on self-desctructive missions; and the international organizer of robberies, Dr. Gang, whose face only his cat knows.

Inspector Gadget’s enemy is Dr. Gang, who tries to steal and harm everybody in the world. Inspector Gadget is responsible for preventing this, and he is also responsible for making everybody in the world do good deeds.