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...directed at kids, "Little Lit" volume three (RAW Junior; 48 pp.; $19.95) will charm adults by making them feel like kids again. Its large dimensions make yours hands look tiny in comparison. Inside is a delightfully colorful mix of short new comics along with puzzles like Barbara McLintock's lovely find-the-differences page. Even the stiffest octogenarian could not resist perusing the bear's picnic for missing apples and extra toes. The comics are by an interdisciplinary group of writers and artists, all of whose stories begin with the line "It was a dark and silly night...
...side of the screen, Wayne has often appeared to be loping through his roles. But on the other side, it seems, there has always been an exacting competitive performer. In McLintock, recalls Actress Maureen O'Hara, "he didn't like the way I was doing a scene, and he said angrily, 'C'mon, Maureen, get going. This is your scene.' I said I was trying to go fifty-fifty. 'Fifty-fifty, hell,' he said. 'It's your scene. Take it.' Then he added under his breath, 'If you can.' " The master of the western, Director John Ford, calls Wayne...
...John is still king. As Cattle Baron George Washington McLintock, he rules a dusty duchy that includes a town, a railroad depot, and a couple of hundred square miles of the Mesa Verde. "I'm gonnna leave most of it to the nation for a park," he says. The only thing G.W. can't rule is his missus, Maureen O'Hara, who keeps bolting out of the herd and heading East, where she picks up the notion that she wants a divorce. Mesa Verde's social horizons seem limited, since the highlight of the season...
Before Maureen can slip away with Daughter Stefanie Powers to strike a blow for gracious living, McLintock takes Patrick on as a ranch hand. The youngsters' romance blooms as soon as Stefanie disposes of her Harvard-educated suitor. Out in Marlboro country before the turn of the century, Harvardmen don't amount to much-they are apt to sing and dance and run off at the mouth. "He says anyone who wants to sell at a profit is reactionary-that's me!" Wayne growls...
After seeing to it that the old frontier does not become too New, McLintock has to settle matters with his wife ("What put that burr under your saddle?"). For the film's showdown, Wayne and Actress O'Hara square off in the middle of town. Stripped to her shift, Maureen is dunked in a trough, turned bottomside up for a spanking, finally has to take a running jump onto the buggy to catch a ride home. But women need that. In Wayne's West, a bit of rough-and-tumble is all it takes to keep...