THREE TIDBITS

For the first time in its history, saith the Associated Press, the Cannes Film Festival opened with an animated film, “Up,” which also marked the first — and, so far, the only — time a 3-D movie has opened the famed fest. ...

Next spring, according to Walter Scott in Parade, a musical derived from Charles Addams’ famously macabre New Yorker cartoon family will open. ...

Credited at DailyCartoonist.com, Rob Tornoe reports that Jon Stewart said that his news comedy program, “The Daily Show,” is the equivalent of a 22-minute editorial cartoon.