Word: aladdin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impeccable supporting cast is headed by Louis Zorich as a store owner facing advancing age. Brad Kane, the movie voice of Aladdin, is a cuddlesome delivery boy. Lee Wilkof captures the humor and pathos of a mediocrity who will endure anything to keep his job. Howard McGillin deftly sketches an oily ladies' man. As his most frequent victim, the dazzling Sally Mayes is all submission, then all self-esteem after her superbly comic ballad, A Trip to the Library...
...while kids look for a new Aladdin or Home Alone, grownups will roam for romantic fare like the recent hits The Bodyguard and Indecent Proposal. That's why some industry swamis have picked Sleepless in Seattle, a sprightly romance, as the season's surprise hit. (Others chose Rookie of the Year and Free Willy.) And the only way that Jurassic Park and Last Action Hero could surprise Hollywood is if they don't hit the $100 million mark in their first four weeks of release...
America is the land of the perpetual teen. We want to stay young forever, to build longer-lasting bodies and minds nourished on fantasy. Let somebody else play grownup; we're all too busy being Aladdin, pledging for Animal House, romping in the backyard with a dog named Beethoven, living in Wayne's World...
...Hits: Aladdin (the only animated offering in the pack, grabbing $114 million), A Few Good Men (Tom Cruise=$55 million), The Bodyguard (Kevin Costner=$88 million, despite intense critical pummeling) and Home Alone 2, the failure-proof sequel that has rung up $146 million, already placing it in the top three of 1992's big earners, along with Batman Returns and Lethal Weapon 3 -- also sequels that offered more of the same...
...Kunhardt Jr., a former managing editor of LIFE magazine, and his two sons Peter and Philip III -- have drawn on famous Mathew Brady portraits, as well as an extraordinary collection of Lincoln photos assembled by the elder Kunhardt's grandfather, Frederick Hill Meserve. There is music by Alan Menken (Aladdin), narration by James Earl Jones and readings by a stellar cast of Hollywood celebrities as the voices of the principals. All of them paying tribute to the most sainted figure in American history. How could it miss...