Word: mins
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...Willie and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Yup, Mickey's back in his first major role since 1952, this time playing Bob Cratchit in Mickey's Christmas Carol, a Disneyed version of the Charles Dickens tale. Due out at year's end, the fully animated, 24-min. featurette reunites Mickey with some old friends, including Minnie Mouse as his wife, Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge, Goofy as Marley's Ghost, Donald Duck as Ebenezer's nephew, Jiminy Cricket as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Daisy Duck as Scrooge's girlfriend. Newcomers...
...some of the people they depicted. Middletown is likely to become just as controversial. Indeed, Xerox, which provided $600,000 of the program's $3 million budget, has already disassociated itself, disturbed by the sometimes foul language. Larry Grossman, the president of PBS, has denounced one 4-min. 7-sec. scene in which a teen-age boy graphically recounts his sexual exploits as "tasteless, exploitative and devastating." PBS will provide its stations with two versions of the show, one omitting that scene...
Richard B. Black, 48, won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1978 for running the fastest continuous vertical, mile, up and down the stairs of Chicago's Lake Point Tower (time: 2 hr. 9 min. 45 sec.). Now Black has achieved a very different kind of notoriety. He is a chief executive officer who is suing the company he worked for. Black has filed a lawsuit that accuses his former employer, AM International, and some of its ex-executives of misrepresenting the firm's financial condition when he was hired a year ago. Black...
...Union speech in November, and the President took a preliminary draft to California on his end-of-year vacation. Reagan and his aides have been extensively rewriting ever since. As of last week, the draft contained blank spaces for new bud-jet figures and proposals. Nonetheless, Reagan took 33 min. to deliver it in a preliminary run-through and told advisers: 'I want to sweat it down some more." He is aiming at 25 to 28 min. Thus the speech will probably contain only bottom-line numbers and broad outlines for many proposals...
Those, of course, were not the exact words used by Ronald Reagan as he dismissed Richard Allen as his National Security Adviser during a 25-min. meeting in the Oval Office last week. Still the President's basic message may have sounded very much that way to an embittered Allen, as the man at the top confirmed what some of his aides had been deliberately leaking to reporters for weeks: Allen was out, in the most important personnel change of the Administration's first year...