Word: bambi
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Amid the latest hoo-ha and brouhaha about toxic culture, a media maven is led to wonder: Has Bob Dole ever read his kids a fairy tale? Or sung a nursery rhyme? Or seen a classic Disney cartoon? In Hansel and Gretel, Jack and Jill, Bambi and Dumbo, the obsessive themes are death and dismemberment. These graphic horror stories tell toddlers that life is a dark forest where parents get killed and kids get eaten. As purveyors of Dole's "nightmares of depravity," Warner Bros. ain't a patch on the Grimm Bros...
...Rose when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and again when his brother Robert was slain in 1968. Her husband died the following year. ``God does not send us a cross heavier than we can bear,'' she once said. ``How you cope is the important thing.'' DIED. BAMBI, 31, female red deer, since 1989 the oldest of her species known to man, according to the Guinness Book of World Records; put down after a stroke; near Inverness, Scotland. John and Nancy Fraser, who cared for Bambi at the guesthouse they own, attributed her longevity--almost twice the life...
...sang a perky or rhapsodic Alan Menken tune. Nothing was lacking in these terrific movies, but something was missing: primal anguish, the kind that made children wet the seats of movie palaces more than a half- century ago as they watched Snow White succumb to the poison apple or Bambi's mother die from a hunter's shotgun blast. Disney cartoons were often the first films kids saw and the first that forced them to confront the loss of home, parent, life. These were horror movies with songs, Greek tragedies with a cute chorus. They offered shock therapy to four...
Foote is right. Disney's America will idealize and sentimentalize history the way Disney's movies have idealized and sentimentalized nature. So what? Bambi and Dumbo are delightful, enduring children's treasures. They are not meant to be PBS documentaries...
Local preferences keep the Disney salespeople hopping. In the British stores Winnie the Pooh is the top seller. France prefers Bambi and Thumper. Germany goes for Scrooge McDuck and the Jungle Book denizens, while the Japanese choose good old Mickey and his significant other. But in this worldwide Minnie-empire, the Disney imprint is everywhere evident, from the perkiness of the store staff (who really do whistle while they work) to the ability of toddlers the world over to wheedle cash from their dutiful parents...