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...Andy's bedroom the toys are alive. They are also working stiffs with the fear, every time a birthday approaches, that they will be replaced by more sophisticated gewgaws. Toy Town's leader, a cloth cowboy named Sheriff Woody (wonderfully voiced by Tom Hanks), talks to his charges as if he's a genial teacher and they are slow kids. Actually, they're finicky adults. Rex (Wallace Shawn), a sexually insecure dinosaur, dreams of being "the dominant predator." Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles) grumbles about planned obsolescence while praying that Andy's new prized toy will be Mrs. Potato Head...
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...show ends with a postmodern touch by appearing to circle back to the opening scene: Bobby's surprise birthday party. Every year he shows up and pretends to be surprised, but this time there's no Bobby. He leaves the couples content to blow out the candles alone, while Robert stands by, hidden in the shadows. The abrupt ending seems suprisingly insubstantial, resisting clear answers or profound revelations. Still, in an age where the ponderous pseudo-drama of "Les Mis" still packs the house most nights in New York (and, terrifyingly, in London, and Dallas, and Des Moines...), Sondheim provides...
...much do they buy it for? An informal survey reveals a scale that goes from $1,500 or so for a celebrity with a new lover to about $5,000 for a drunken or angry star to $10,000 for, say, Julia Roberts' birthday party. But even when a photographer gets a big score, he often has to kick back some of it to a tipster. Tips on a celebrity's whereabouts, says Zanger, come "from people in the family, people who work for them--they all squeal for money." There's no business like show business...
...member countries of the U.N. marked the organization's 50th birthday at headquarters in New York City with three days of speechifying and celebrating. Each of 201 world leaders was allotted five minutes to speak from the General Assembly's rostrum; politicians being politicians, most of them took a little longer to make their points. Chief among their concerns: war, poverty and reform of the U.N., including the U.S.'s embarrassing refusal to pay its $1.2 billion dues in arrears...