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...father was lost in the line into Disney World six years and three hundred sixty days ago which means my stepmother will no longer be a legal relative when he's declared dead this week. How can I drink with her? --Lost in the Legalities...
That situation may have been aggravated by the increasing exposure of the Chinese people to an ever wider array of influences from abroad. One week there is talk of a Disney-style amusement park for southern Peking. The next, General Motors delivers a fleet of 20 Cadillac limousines to be used by visiting businessmen. Last April, party officials, after solemnly viewing videotapes of the British rock group Wham!, allowed the band to appear in Peking, complete with scantily clad go-go dancers and pelvis-thrusting vocalist. A golf course is scheduled to open next May in the historic Valley...
...about a pair of undercover cops who patrol seedy Hollywood Boulevard. Creator Aaron Spelling's vision of Hollywood's "raw underbelly" features a ludicrous gallery of street folk (good-hearted prostitutes, a "cute" bag lady and a caped wacko called Captain Crusader) who could be refugees from a Walt Disney version of Freaks...
...every Warner's cartoon is so heavy on the cordite and flying feathers. Some go in for the big soulful eyes, pastel prettiness and comforting moral of the traditional Disney cartoon. Feed the Kitty (1952), the acme of Jones' career, is a fable about a bulldog who falls into mad maternal love over a winsome kitten. But even in Warner's usually violent cat-eat-bird, rabbit- humiliate-duck world, character is at the base of the comedy. Each nuance of eyebrow makes Bugs' almost inhuman sangfroid seem more endearing; each microsecond of exasperated deadpan underlines Daffy's status...
After Thunderdome, Max takes a brief holiday in what seems like Walt Disney's version of Lord of the Flies. A tribe of deserted children enact with Durkheimian accuracy the ritual of their history for Max, then declare him to be their messiah. Max finds this scene to be quite annoying, as does the audience. Max states himself what the focus of a Mad Max movie should be when he declares that he is not a childrens' messiah, but rather, "the guy who keeps Mr. Death in his pocket." (Would that the directors had kept to that focus...