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...fairy tale, a fretful fowl named Chicken Little gets bonked by an acorn, mistakes this minor incident for an astral calamity and frightens the neighbors by exclaiming, "The sky is falling!" In the world of traditional animation, when computer-generated (CG) 3-D cartoons came in, the sky did fall. The first piece was Pixar, with such movies as Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. Another chunk was DreamWorks (the Shreks). And, yes, an outfit called Blue Sky fell too, with Ice Age and Robots. Hand-drawn, or 2-D, animation was instantly kaput. Chicken Little was right...
They are indeed, to judge from the exclusive peek they offered TIME of their first four CG theatrical features. Disney surely has a winner in its debut effort, Mark Dindal's Chicken Little, which opens Nov. 4. It's one of the funniest, most charming and most exhilarating movies in years. And it's a genuine Disney cartoon, with a storytelling sense and graphic precision worthy of the old animation masters...
...salvage? At one point, police with guns drawn escorted Dr. Henderson through a Walgreens as he emptied the pharmacy of drugs to use in a French Quarter bar turned makeshift clinic. Dudley Fuqua, tall and lean in baggy blue shorts, broke into neighborhood shops and took canned goods, frozen chicken and ribs and cigarettes to his neighbors, who called him a hero. "I was in a building with no food, no water for five nights," Fuqua's neighbor Mohammed Ally, 70, told TIME's Brian Bennett. "They were taking care of the elderly people." Fuqua saw a neighbor using...
...predicted an eerily similar scenario with tens of thousands of deaths. One problem, in retrospect, is that no one had wanted to believe it. "I'll be honest with you. I'm the researcher, I'm doing all the models, and sometimes I would say to myself, 'Am I Chicken Little? Could this really happen?'" says Wolshon. "Even I was in denial, and I was the one running all the numbers...
...many awaiting evacuation at Lakefront was Dorothy Route, 80. Accompanied by her two-year old dachshund Shadow and her brother Van Laurant, 78, who has alzheimers, she had run into looters while trying to drive through the waters out of the city. They had very charitably given her raw chicken taken from a freezer of a Church's chicken restaurant. But then they stripped her red Jeep Cherokee of its battery. The car eventually went underwater. Rescued by chopper, she and Shadow, were trying to make sure Van didn't wander off. "He don't know what happened five minutes...