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Harvard broke the tie 4:29 into the second stanza on Bambi Taylor's first goal of the year. The ball came out of a crowd in front of the net onto the stick of Taylor at the point of the penalty circle. The New Castle, Del. native sent the ball screaming into the goal for the game winning tally...
...goes a step further: he gives back a new fairy tale as good as old. The film opens on a night sky, Disney I blue and full of twinkling stars. In the clearing of a forest that Bambi and Thumper might have been pleased to call home, a spaceship sits - not a high-tech marvel of the NASA future but a bell-shaped spinster of a ship, with old-fashioned street lamps appending and the unmistakable aura of Captain Nemo's Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A misty crescent moon gives glimpses of child-size figures...
...fight the bad guys as much as the stupid and evil guys fight the stupider and eviler Riordan, however, is a hero-- a Vietnam vet with a bum leg and cynical pride in truth, justice and the American way Heart-warming it certainly ain't in Higginsland, Bambi would wind up on a rotisserie in about two seconds. It is curious to note that Higgins seems to think there may be some hope for us after all. But if you asked him, he'd deny it. Too tough...
...ever-scampering feet they could, with fine comic efficiency, show the state of his emotions. The history of animation from the Mouse's introduction in 1928's Steamboat Willie to the apotheosis of the high Disney style in such features as Snow White and Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi, roughly a decade later, can be seen as a process in which movement became subtler and more complex, with a parallel growth in the expressive range of the studio's "stars." The animators learned to incorporate tragedy (the panic of a lost boy in Pinocchio, the death of Bambi...
...shows flashes of genuine expertise. She makes running a hand through her hair a profound expression of violently contradictory emotions; her quick, reluctant smile exudes poignancy. Physically, she is the perfect realization of Polanski's idea of "provocative beauty." Her full lips suggest a smoldering sensuality, undetectable in those Bambi-esque eyes. Even the tiny scar on her left cheek seems to heighten her beauty, like Gene Tierney's over-bite. The trouble with Kinski is her voice, a wonderfully funny, squeaky little thing. It quivers and gurgles and struggles to capture an English accent but sounds oddly Irish instead...