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...answer, he and his fellow conspirators proceed to annihilate a classic. The epic adventures are turned into a few friezes reminiscent of a sixth grade pageant: Polyphemus, the Cyclops, bears a strong resemblance to a Sesame Street Muppet; Telemachus (Russ Thacker) might have escaped from a G-rated Disney film. The celebrated dancing and fighting is reduced to a series of galvanic gestures and deafening groans. The groans may be distinguished from the songs easily: the songs have words. Those lyrics, which act upon the mind like nepenthe, are also by Segal, a classics scholar who is driving without...
...pages. Doubleday. $19.95. Borein (1872-1945) never achieved the celebrity of such Western artists as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. He drifted from cowpunching along the Pacific Coast into a successful career of drawing what he had seen, later hung out with friends like Will Rogers and Walt Disney. This casual, sympathetic biography does not gloss over Borein's somewhat stiff draftsmanship or his penchant for sentimental vistas that would have embarrassed Hollywood set designers. But collectors of Western memorabilia value Borein for the literal accuracy of his work. And when he applied brush and watercolors to certain...
...good news about the HRO this year is the consistent integrity of its programming. Last year's management tried to lure audiences with several trivial pieces--such as Dukas's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" of Walt Disney fame--which it mistook for crowd pleasers. The new management has dispensed with such condescension and every work which has been scheduled so far is worth hearing. Like last year, the HRO is performing well. The difficulties which arose in the last concert, presumably from musical overcommitment, should be rectified in the upcoming programs, which seem to be of a more manageable scope...
...Disney's Dumbo, Friday, Saturday and Sunday...
...Parent Trap [1961]. Are we seeing double? Nope, It's just Hayley Mills playing identical twins in this explosive Walt Disney laff riot. Hearty guffaws for the whole family. You'll split your sides belly-laughing at this good, clean FUN! Ch. 4, 8:20 p.m. Color; 2 hours, 40 minutes...