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DIED. WALTER LANTZ, 93, animator; in Burbank, California. "Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha! Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha!" The maniacal chortle of Lantz's Woody Woodpecker is probably the most universally recognized laugh since Santa Claus first ho-ho-hoed -- an enduring, if somewhat annoying, piece of Americana. Lantz, known more for his craftsmanship than his originality, ran his own animation studio by the late 1920s, where he produced the first Technicolor cartoon and a host of characters like Andy Panda and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. None came close to the success of Woody Woodpecker, who first hit the screen...
...mixture of benumbed awe and gratitude. But, as in the U.S., some critics charged that the film, by focusing on the few survivors of Nazi genocide rather than on the millions of dead, turned a continent's horror story into a fairy tale. In the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, historian Tom Segev dismissed it as "Spielberg's Holocaust Park," called the Auschwitz sequence "pornography" and concluded, "Spielberg needs the Holocaust, but the Holocaust does not need Spielberg." In the German newspaper Die Welt, critic Will Tremper headlined his review "Indiana Jones in the Krakow Ghetto." He excoriated Spielberg's vision...
...days later, around 10 pm, we were driving to Star Market to get some food, and I said to Young Jin, "You know, I have never been to Canada...(pause)...Wouldn't it be so funny if we just drove Bob's car to Canada and came back. Ha!" I guess what I said wasn't taken as a joke because just like that we got on the Mass Pike, and we were on our way to Canada...
...band's guitarrist is an unusually tall boy known as K., who refus- es to reveal the other letters of his name. K.describes himself as "gangly and obsequious," butonly the gangly part is true. K. is funny, bothfunny weird and funny ha ha. He's also quitestudious for someone his height...
...Heartland Association: Now that the HA's fine student-athletes meet the restrictions of Proposition 48 ("Farming 101") being no longer mandatory for credit), fans of teams like the Nebraska A&I Scythes and the North Dakota Polytechnic Reapers can cheer their point guards and big men towards an NCAA automatic berth...