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...children's books evoke such strong emotions as The Story of Little Black Sambo. Its crude, derogatory drawings and racist character names are patently offensive, making it one of the best known relics--practically an icon--of a deplorable era. But Sambo himself is spunky and resourceful, and his story is charming enough that many adults remember it fondly. Now two publishers are trying to resurrect Sambo, preserving the good while jettisoning the bad in new versions of the mortifying old book...
Andrew Stevens is even more emphatic. "Video is a wheezing, gasping, last bastion of collectors and a dwindling number of renters!" he roars. As a DTV icon, Stevens got candle wax dripped on his chest by Tanya Roberts in Night Eyes and got smothered in fruit by Shannon Tweed in Night Eyes 2 ("Nice use of raspberries," notes the invaluable Bare Facts Video Guide, which catalogs nude scenes in R-rated movies). But as the co-owner of Royal Oaks Entertainment, which produces a dozen or so action-adventure titles a year for the foreign market, he's pleased...
Thus the concussion passes through the medium of media. The accidental video's evil instant becomes a sudden, globally repeated icon, replayed insistently until it erases the 1996 Olympics' prior signature of celebration and courage, the image of a young gymnast performing through her pain. In a split second, the story changes utterly, and so, for the moment at least, does the moral of the story. That's what bombs are for--to redirect the story line, or obliterate its earlier meaning...
Elvis Presley never made it to university, but now the ivory tower is coming to him. For a growing body of Ph.D.s, Elvis is more than a pop icon--he's a treasure trove of subjects for scholarly research. Beginning Aug. 3, two dozen academics will present papers at the latest international conference on the King, at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Vernon Chadwick, the conference director, who has made connections between Elvis' Hawaiian movies and Herman Melville's Polynesian novels, declares, "Within Elvis there is a multiplicity of topics of study." Among the conference's papers...
BUGS BUNNY Until the FTC is happy, the Warner icon won't be merging with pals on Turner's Cartoon Network...