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...Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, and the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which featured Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Hal Roach Studios, which owns 35% of Colorization, expects to have 15 movies for sale or rental in video shops by next spring, including ten Laurel and Hardy features and the original, 1937 version of Topper, starring Gary Grant and Constance Bennett...
...golden eagle, a twelve-year-old female named Fluff, and he wanted it in the show. The show, while accepting Hoddy's proposal, wanted a bald eagle-national bird and all that-instead of a golden. The one picked came from the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., where it had lived for 22 years virtually without flying. Its name was Bomber, and according to Hoddy, "it looked like a little butterball turkey...
...vociferous opposition to Marcos' government. When Marcos refused to meet demands to guarantee the legitimacy of the elections, which had been previously scheduled, Aquino's younger brother Agapito ("Butz"), together with former Senators Jose Diokno and Lorenzo Tañada, resolved to boycott the voting. Salvador Laurel and other Marcos opponents disagreed. While conceding that they had little hope against the money and machinery of the well-oiled K.B.L., they believed that by winning even a few seats they could begin to challenge Marcos' system from within. Easier said than done. Though Marcos reluctantly liberalized the election...
...song, that is, that he twitted Paul McCartney for writing, although not even his ex-writing partner ever sniveled so stereophonically as Lennon as he serenades his flower princess. Ono does display a neat flash of wit in her final song: "In the world's eye/ We were Laurel and Hardy/ In our minds/ We were Heathcliff and Cathy." But hagiography, even half comic, like this, should be resisted. Sentiment might make that hard. But Milk and Honey makes it a cinch. -By Jay Cocks
...Xavier Suarez I extend an olive branch but not the laurel of victory. That will never happen as long as he allows himself to be manipulated by the hate-mongers of this community...