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There's a kid in Alex Gonzales' seventh-grade class--we won't mention any names--who still plays with X-Men plastic action figures. "He's kind of weird," says Alex, 11, of Fontana, Calif. "None of us play with X-Men anymore. We like PlayStation better." Toy-industry experts call this "age compression"--boys shunning G.I. Joe and girls dissing Barbie at ever younger ages in favor of computer games and sporting goods. And it is just one of the obstacles confronting Toys "R" Us as the nation's No. 1 retailer of playthings tries to get itself...
...husband is fighting a terrible battle with cancer. In June we went with friends to a Buffett concert in Milwaukee, Wis. We danced to Cheeseburger in Paradise and cried to "Mother Ocean." For a few hours, we were able to push away the nightmare. Thank you, Jimmy. EILEEN LUCAS Fontana...
...movie still packs a good old-fashioned ideological punch. And it's peppered with familiar faces; you'll spot Cagney, Frank Fontana, and the guy who stole the raisins on Seinfeld; points for Doogie Howser's father and Otis Day from "Animal House," and a BRAND NEW CAR for anyone who recognizes Bud Bundy before the credits roll. Give it a day in court...
...Generation X. Finally, our efforts and achievements are being recognized as productive and meaningful. Your article shines the brightest rays of light on our unorthodox but seemingly successful methods. I also thank my peers for yelling loudly enough to make the boomers and matures hear our messages. MATT FONTANA Lynchburg...
...life, from the beginning, was hardly boring. Born in Fontana Liri, 50 miles outside Rome, to a carpenter who went blind and a housewife who went deaf ("They were like a comic couple," he said), Mastroianni did time in a German labor camp during World War II, then escaped to Venice and later to Luchino Visconti's famed Milan theater troupe. The screen had to claim this face, so sensitive, masculine and alert, but it took a decade or more for him to achieve true Marcellosity. In Visconti's rapturous White Nights (1957), Mastroianni spent the whole movie pleading fruitlessly...