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...Madagascar's real agenda is to build a bridge between infantile and adult humor. It has references to movies three to five times as old as its kid audience: Born Free, naturally, and Chariots of Fire and Planet of the Apes ("Darn you! Darn you all to heck!"). For the kids there are lots of funny spit takes and an abounding love for all things rectal. (To define the top two CGI studios by their favorite bodily functions, Pixar is farts, and DreamWorks is poop.) Add an outrageously adorable baby lemur and a penguin applying suntan lotion...
...with the material, and how you make it new, that counts. M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of the Humanities Randolph-Macon College Ashland, Virginia, U.S. Stargazing I was pleased to read about the third episode of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith [May 9]. When I was a little kid, how many times did I reach out for galaxies, planets and stars far, far away? There's no greater happiness than a kid's wish granted. Back then, my jaw dropped when the screen filled with spaceships of all varieties, battles with supreme fighters and characters I wished could...
...called Masterpiece Theatre. Merchant-Ivory films, exhibiting the same good breeding and measured pacing, became known as Masterpiece Cinema. The epithet was derisive, but it carried an implicit acknowledgment that the noble lineage of stiff-upper literature was now wholly in the care of the boy from Bombay, the kid from Oregon and the Polish-German lady who'd married an Indian. Merchant, Ivory and Prawer Jhabvala were like the servants who'd been bequeathed a ducal castle just as its ramparts were crumbling, its halls haunted by the ghosts of the glory days...
...replaced the American with a young signaller who had undergone SAS training, but had not passed the grueling selection course. For the 20-year-old, nicknamed "G," the offer of a place on an SAS foot patrol was a thrilling opportunity, but his companions were worried. "He was a kid. He had not been given the training or experience,'' they...
...jaunty photographer and pal to reporter Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. But he could seethe too, winning acclaim as a psychopathic infantry officer in the 1956 World War II drama Attack and another Oscar nomination as the forbidding father of Cybill Shepherd's Wasp princess in The Heartbreak Kid...