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POLAROID SAW IT. So did Abbie Hoffman. And Roone Arledge capitalized on it, as did Fabian, John F. Kennedy, Walt Disney and thousands of farmers in the hills of Colombia...
...reality programming" like Real People, Games People Play and Speak Up America. It may be a dubious TV genre-mixing 60 Minutes with The Gong Show-but it is one unaffected by the strike. With such shows, plus the World Series, Magazine with David Brinkley, Disney's Wonderful World and new episodes of three old series, NBC can boast that through the end of October, it will air 75% new programming. The capricious god who filched the Olympics from NBC may now have decided to smile on Silverman, who last week was awarded an 18-month extension...
...Moscow's Misha was unbearable. Take a gander at Bald Eagle Sam, official mascot of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Bob Hope did, when the creature was unveiled at Los Angeles city hall on the day after his Soviet predecessor went into hibernation. Sam, hatched at nearby Walt Disney studios, struck some observers as a rather poultry imitation of the U.S. national bird. Hope did not duck the issue. "He has a good makeup man," the comedian said, gamely, and confessed his own regret at not participating in the Olympics. Clucked Hope: "Too bad gin rummy and beanbag...
...vision of alien benignity; together with Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon), whose small son has run away from home to hitch a ride on a starship, Roy brazens his way into the first meeting of man and extraterrestrial. Both film versions pay heartfelt homage to the spirit of early Disney-not only in their use of the song When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) but also in their insistence on a childlike belief in the magic of movies. The actors here are the audience: they spend most of the film watching and listening to the lovely sights and sounds...
...planning Disneyland, which opened in 1955, Walt Disney solved the problem in a novel way. He lined his idealized Main Street, U.S.A., through which all visitors must pass before getting to Tomorrowland or Frontierland, with Chinese elms. They are not quite look-alikes of their American cousins, but do grow in balmy Southern California. More important, they resist Dutch elm disease...