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...Andy Farmer (Chevy Chase) sits by the fireplace; his lazy, lovable pet, Yellow Dog, dozes at his feet. An odor catches Andy's attention -- hmmm, something's burning. The master of this Vermont farmhouse eases on over to the hearth, extracts Yellow Dog's tail from the cinders and gently stubs it out like a spent cigar. The pooch barely opens one glazed eye. This scene, briefer than a minute, is a vagrant moment of unforced drollery in Funny Farm's carnival of sylvan horrors...
...Willow. But will moviegoers watch? To a genre weakened by formula and familiarity, Lucas has brought little new, just a reprise of his Star Wars plot and characters in sylvan gear. His Luke Skywalker is Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a dwarf in a community of dwarfs, a young farmer put in charge of the infant who is destined to deliver his land from the terrible rule of Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh). On his journey to Castle Nockmaar, he acquires a few worthy friends and foes: an outlaw warrior in the Han Solo mold (Val Kilmer), a dashing knight with Lando...
...that losses from Conlan's 1,505-acre farm exceeded the limit in the loan contract, the bank refused to lend him more money and grabbed $120,000 from another of his accounts to pay off the debt. Those moves forced him into bankruptcy, his attorneys say. So the farmer sued, and last year a jury ordered Wells Fargo to pay him $60 million in damages (later reduced to $35 million...
While peace means different things to different people, no one in Pantasma seems to feel that the conflict should continue until victory is claimed by either side. "We want peace because we want to be free," says Omar Cruz, a farmer. "In a war, no one is free...
...Farmer, who works full time for Dukakis, believes that fund-raising letters are next to useless. Real donations come through phone conversations or, even better, personal visits. Last spring he spent two months meeting with hundreds of potential givers and collectors. He was on the road 39 out of 42 days recently, and is about to embark on a 25-city visit to his local operatives. If Dukakis wins the nomination, Farmer will turn his energies to raising money for the Democratic Party. And should his candidate win, would there be a job for Farmer? As Dukakis once joked, perhaps...