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...true heirs of the true Walt--canny kids like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jim Henson --updated the old master's tricks and made pots of dough. Now a new generation of Disney artists, some young enough to have made Star Wars, Close Encounters and the Muppets their boyhood models, has produced a cartoon feature in the old Disney tradition. And Henson and Lucas have teamed for an ambitious flight of fantasy that plays like computer-age Walt...
...Reagan chose to remake the high court shares many of his roots and values. Like Reagan, Rehnquist left his boyhood home in the Midwest to head for the Far West, where he embraced the frontier verities of rugged individualism and a respect for law-and-order. The son of a paper salesman, Rehnquist grew up in the quiet Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood. After serving three years in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he used the G.I. Bill to go to Stanford. Graduating first in his class from Stanford Law (a classmate was Sandra Day O'Connor...
...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are America's foremost symbols of boyhood optimism, of romantic dreaming at the age when all life's options lie open. Bernard Sabath's The Boys in Autumn imagines those Mark Twain characters as disillusioned middle-aged men. The youths who fantasized becoming outlaws have done just that: Tom has a guilty secret that sent him wandering; Huck has a guilty secret that made him a recluse. On an afternoon in the Roaring Twenties they meet again and, after sputtering mistrust, struggle to renew a feeling of blood brotherhood in boundless adventure...
...many times, it's been the other way around," Coach Cleary said, recalling boyhood days as he waited anxiously outside the trainer's room for his mother to emerge. But come Saturday, the elder Cleary was back in the stands, and the pageant rolled...
...passion. Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis) is a bleach-blond tough with a National Front past. His boyhood pal Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is the son of an impoverished Pakistani writer (Roshan Seth) and the nephew of a gaudy entrepreneur (Saeed Jaffrey). Uncle is a sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple...