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...intent was to satirize, and the target was anything that had become overgrown with acceptance or nostalgia. In 1967, he freshened his slant with Snow White, a novel whose transformed fairy-tale heroine swept away the Disney dust by writing dirty poems and commingling in the shower with the Seven Dwarfs, who otherwise labored over large vats, manufacturing Chinese baby food...
...Hope Corp. The center will include a basilica, seminary, retreat house, pilgrim house, hospital, monastery, museum, amphitheater, restaurant and religious goods store. "God approves everything, even how the buildings will look," says one of Fran's aides. If so, the Trinity must be taking lessons from Walt Disney. Leading across a ravine to the basilica will be the "Examination of Conscience" bridge, on which sins against the Decalogue will be represented, in order that "we might be cleansed by the time we reach the great edifice." There will also be a crown-shaped chapel to Our Lady...
...Race-in a car he both designed and drove-established Reventlow's reputation as a serious competitor. His love of auto racing and his refusal to give it up led to divorce from his first wife, Actress Jill St. John, in 1964. He later married a former Disney TV Mouseketeer and left the tracks in favor of polo and skiing...
...entrepreneurs to be their moneymaking lure. Sears salesmen palm off bogus Poohs on cups, cereal bowls and children's clothes. In his Pooh Perplex, Frederick C. Crewes uses Winnie as a straw bear to be analyzed in every way imaginable in a parody of literary criticism. Walt Disney latched onto the Pooh image in an hour-long cartoon, but substituted Hollywood caricatures for Shepard's illustrations of Pooh and his friends. Disney even went so far as to introduce a new animal hero into the Hundred Acre Wood--an absurd looking gopher who does nothing but stand...
Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick with James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles Cinema, 4, 7, 10, May 21-23. With Walt Disney's Ferdinand the Bull and identity crisis...