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Cinderella's coach turned into a pumpkin-and Jonathan Winters' head has now suffered the same fate. With a little help from his makeup man, Comic Winters ripens into a big jack-o'-lantern on the set of Walt Disney's special, The Halloween Hall o' Fame. The show, scheduled to air Oct. 30 on NBC, stars Winters as a bumbling night watchman who swaps heads with a talking pumpkin. The tricks and treats are vintage Disney, and Winters loved it all-especially his costume. "I was secure with my head," he says. "I knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

WHEN YOU FIRST see Nikolais Dance Theater, you're determined to see through the troupe's stunts. The company, appearing at Brandeis this past weekend, stages a magic lantern show: one minute the proscenium is an expanse of bold color stripes, the next a field of white pin-points of light. Even when you remind yourself that it's all stagecraft, you're still astounded--it's hard to believe that one man, Alvin Nikolais, could choreograph score, costume and light such intricate theater works...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Under the Magic L'antern | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...Millet, art is slavish copying of nature. He lights his lantern and goes looking for cretins. . .imagine a monster with no skull, the eye extinguished by an idiot's squint, straddling in the middle of a field like a scarecrow. No spark of intelligence humanizes this resting brute. Has he been working or murdering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Great Lost Painter | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

BOMB INGREDIENTS. There were five cans of gunpowder, lengths of pipe, lantern-type batteries, copper wire, five alarm clocks and blasting caps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: A Disturbed Young Woman' | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

Ford will also appear at a lantern-hanging ceremony tonight at 8 p.m. at Old North Church. The Revolutionary Student Brigade will stage a demonstration against Ford beginning at 6 p.m. on Park...

Author: By Steven C. Bonsey, | Title: Boy Scouts, Radicals To Open Bicentennial | 4/18/1975 | See Source »

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