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There is a limit to the role playing. You cannot really choose your identity: you are a 10-year-old boy. You can pick any name when you assume the role of the child--your own, your friend's, your neighbor's. But one particular selection is volunteered: Ash, the name of the hero in the Pokemon TV series. He walks down from his room and, seeing his mother (a father is nowhere to be found), tells her he is departing on a quest. She replies, "Right. All boys leave home someday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Last year Disney linked with Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli to release video or theatrical versions of nine films, including the anime auteur's delightful My Neighbor Totoro (about two kids who befriend a chubby forest sprite) and Kiki's Delivery Service (a cute teenage witch launches her own broom-propelled FedEx). Disney now has the world's top-three animation studios: its own unit and the computer tooners at Pixar and Ghibli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Anime | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...almost parodistically macho security guard, who is felled by a stroke as he tries to prevent a robbery in his New York City apartment building. As part of his therapy he requires singing lessons to help him remobilize his frozen vocal cords. Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman), his transvestite neighbor, is recruited to tutor him, while we settle down to await their inevitable bonding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Flawed Friendship | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Your next door neighbor, dressed in a white sheet with cut-out eye-holes, will beg for mini-snickers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Minutes | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

Fraternity members allegedly urinated on neighbors' cars, played lacrosse on the roofs of nearby homes, and caused smoke damage when they stuffed trash down a neighbor's chimney, Pokaski elaborated...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Frat Disbanded, May Appeal | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

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