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...never had children of his own. ("You make 'em, I amuse 'em," he famously said.) He doted instead on the menagerie of misfits and mischiefmakers who have populated his children's books since 1937's "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." Unlike Walt Disney and Charles M. Schulz, Geisel kept the T-shirts and adaptations to a minimum - one fabulous exception being animator Chuck Jones' 1966 TV version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" - and kept himself and his creatures close to home...
...Valuations, earnings, growth rates - the old standbys are all there. Bad bottom-line outlooks on IBM, Disney and now, on Friday, Dell (the moment of silence on the trading floor was for Veterans Day, though, not the other Austin power...
...concerts was because she was smoking too much bud? Well, a friend on the inside wrote in: "Actually, she got a new manager, and he decided to cancel appearances that were planned by his predecessor. She's not really having vocal chord problems."... I'm interviewing for my Disney dream job tomorrow. If you see me this weekend and I look happy, ask me how it went. If I look unhappy, offer to buy me a stiff drink... Since I am supposed to be cutting-edge, I flouted a green sports vest and matching pants to lunch the other...
...fate of the nation hinges on a few thousand votes--even perhaps a few hundred--in a state better known for retirement communities and Disney World than changing the political fate of the nation...
From designs for Renaissance forts to a replica of the sexy robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, 1926. From baroque engravings of New World cannibals in grass huts to pictures of yuppies enjoying a stroll through Celebration, Disney's "ideal town" in Florida. From Nazi racial propaganda to unalluring photos of early kibbutzim in Israel. From Stalinist kitsch in the '30s to Haight-Ashbury peace-and-love kitsch in the '60s. This intriguing range of objects and images is contained in "Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World," the sprawling show that kicks...