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...deficit hawk in the 1990s, but she now believes the Pentagon should have whatever it wants. Her civil liberties seem less important than they used to, especially compared with keeping her children safe. She's someone, in short, like Debbie Creighton, a 34-year-old Santee, Calif., mother of two who voted for Bill Clinton twice and used to choose the candidates who were most liberal on abortion and welfare. "Since 9/11," Creighton says, "all I want in a President is a person who is strong...
While the Pixarians aren't really boys, they are guys (all the top creative types are male) who radiate a benign youthfulness. The company, with headquarters in Emeryville, Calif., outside San Francisco, is a giant playpen, a kind of Erector-set tree house. Games and gadgets clog the office of head Pixie John Lasseter, whose uniform is a blindingly gaudy Hawaiian shirt. Nemo's begetter, Andrew Stanton, 37, looks a dozen years younger and decades more innocent. He, Lasseter and the rest seem like boys in love with their computer toys...
Nemo's fish-out-of-water plot was hatched back in 1992, when Stanton visited Marine World in Vallejo, Calif. His feelings of protectiveness toward his own boy Ben (now 10, and the brother of Audrey, 7) inspired the father-son story; a dentist's office fish tank, remembered from his childhood in Rockport, Mass., provided a second location for the drama...
MARRIED. CAROL CHANNING, 82, relentlessly effervescent actress best known for her role in the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!; to a junior-high sweetheart, Harry Kullijian, 83; in Atherton, Calif. The pair was reunited after a mutual friend saw several mentions of Kullijian in Channing's recent autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess, and suggested he call her. His first response: "I thought she was dead...
RECUPERATING. GERALD FORD, 89, former President; hospitalized briefly after becoming dizzy while playing golf; in Rancho Mirage, Calif...