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...face of an upturned blossom, but she was born under the sign of the lion and her heart belonged to Hercules. The first-grader adored Disney's version of the hero and hung a poster of him over her bed. So Samantha Runnion, 5, reacted as her idol would have when a stranger first asked her to help find his chihuahua and then--as she bent down to show how small the dog might be--carried her into his car. She fought with all the might of her tiny arms and legs, and screamed to her friend, "Help me! Tell...
...Lansing points out that the ultimate test has not yet been met for women executives in Hollywood. She notes that there are no female Hollywood titans on the level of Disney's Michael Eisner or Viacom's Sumner Redstone. "The women I came up with," says Lansing, "we all got into this business to make movies, not to run corporations. But I think that right now at the Harvard Business School, there's some girl sitting there saying, 'I don't want Sherry Lansing's job. I want to be Sumner Redstone...
...caseworker Erica Jones would not have found little Alfredo Montez. He was being beaten to death in a mobile home 10 miles away, allegedly by his baby-sitter, Richard Chouquer, 23, as punishment for soiling his pants. The child was then wrapped in a bedspread, one with characters from Disney's 101 Dalmatians, and allegedly thrown into the trunk of Chouquer's gray Ford Taurus. Police say that as Chouquer and his girlfriend, Amandy Lawrence, 22, drove off to find a spot to dump Alfredo's body, they took the little boy's sister Rheyna, 4, along for the ride...
CDIED. WARD KIMBALL, 88, irreverent, pioneering Disney animator--one of the elite early group called the Nine Old Men--who directed animation on such films as Fantasia, Dumbo and Cinderella; in Arcadia, Calif. Kimball gave a makeover to Mickey Mouse and created Jiminy Cricket, the wisecracking, top-hatted character in Pinocchio. He won an Oscar for his 1969 animated short It's Tough to Be a Bird...
...Mussolini. DIED. JOHN FRANKENHEIMER, 72, director of 1960s film classics like Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate; in Los Angeles. Frankenheimer's troubles with alcohol caused his career to suffer in the 1970s and '80s, but he made a comeback in TV movies. DIED. WARD KIMBALL, 88, the Disney animator who first drew Jiminy Cricket; in Arcadia, California. Kimball began his Disney career in 1934 and was part of the team that designed a more expressive Mickey Mouse. He also worked on Pinocchio, Fantasia and Mary Poppins. DIED. JOACHIM EGON FUERST ZU FUERSTENBERG, 79, a member...