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...proof of these dour bromides is found in five new movies about kids. Two are from abroad: Gianni Amelio's Italian drama Il Ladro di Bambini (Stolen Children) and Jean-Claude Lauzon's Leolo, from Quebec. Three are from Disney: Duwayne Dunham's Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Mikael Salomon's A Far Off Place and Stephen Sommers' The Adventures of Huck Finn...
...other two Disney films have similar plots. Indeed, add a female character and the two pictures have identical plots. In A Far Off Place, three kids in their early teens -- a New York City boy (Ethan Randall), a white girl raised in Africa (Reese Witherspoon) and a Bushman (Sarel Bok) -- find that poachers have massacred the white children's parents, so they resolve to cross 1,300 miles of the Kalahari Desert to alert the law. The cutesy Homeward Bound is the same story, with three variations: the family is missing, not dead; the hostile terrain is the Western...
...Claude Harris, D -- Alabama: $270 given for handicapped children to see Disney...
THERE WAS POP ART. AND OP ART. NOW comes the latest postmodernist art form: Stock Art. Michigan entrepreneur Lawrence Wilsher is offering the public single shares, appropriately framed, of the Walt Disney Co. He sells the certificates not for their face value but rather for their worth as actual works of art -- replete with Walt's visage and images of such classic Disney characters as Bambi, Dumbo and Mickey. Wilsher's mixing of art and finance earned the scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission, but the agency has confirmed that he does not have to register as a broker...
...Monica Boulevard by banners welcoming him to his new West Coast home. Call it Mr. Salonen Goes to Hollywood. Or maybe Esa-Pekka Does Disneyland. In four years the orchestra will move from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Music Center to the $114 million, Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall under construction nearby. Salonen's high-concept dream: "To conduct Bruckner in Walt Disney Hall -- a meeting of Bruckner and Donald Duck. Both were part of my tradition. Both are immortal." And both speak a universal language, even if it isn't Finnish...