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Star stuff. Disney dust. But all of it absolutely legit. Six weeks after Ali took a derisive look at the Evans mansion she married him, phones and all. The baby she is expecting in February is referred to by its mother as "The Phone." "Bob never wished he was somebody else," says Ali. "It's a good feeling for a woman to be with a man like that." As for the Hollywood life-style that comes with the role: "Hollywood scares me. But we don't live the Hollywood life. Bob goes to the office and works...
...Million, Charley's Aunt). He appeared so often as the husband of fluttery Mary Boland that fans thought that they were actually married. He returned to Broadway in 1958 (The Pleasure of His Company), then more recently took on warm, grandfatherly roles in Walt Disney features (The Ugly Dachshund, Follow Me, Boys...
Defacing a public monument is a crime in France; the idea is worth borrowing and extending to cover such assaults as the Disney scheme to turn California's Mineral King mountain fastness into a tourist development, or the perennial proposal to build a highway through the Grand Canyon. Anyone approaching the national battlefield military park at Gettysburg runs a gauntlet of gaudy billboards, and now Tom Ottenstein, a developer from Silver Spring, Md., is going ahead with plans to build a 300-ft. sightseeing tower on an acre of private land not far from the Gettysburg National Cemetery...
...Little League fields across the street from the semi-pro Alaska Gold-pannier's Field, where families in station wagons pull in every summer night to cheer for their sons; more conspicuous are the modern churches, the fancy airline offices, the laundromats, the suburban-style family theater, and the Disney-Frontier-land-like amusement park called Alaskaland all built along the few miles of divided highway that stretches between the busy Fairbanks airport and Fort Wainwright, a sprawling Army base just outside the center of Fairbanks; more conspicuous are the J. C. Penney's department store and the Colonel Sanders...
...commercial programming and Sesame Street. Give me $8,000,000, and I can come up with educational programming too." But ABC's Chuck Jones sees Sesame Street much the same way kids doas an entryway. "O.K., Sesame Street isn't perfect," he says. "But it began something. Walt Disney opened up character animation. Sesame Street opened children's TV to taste and wit and substance. It made the climate right for improvement...