Word: ostrichized
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Many of the new shows seem to have been created according to very different expectations. Take Channel Umptee-3, which is intended to appeal to children as young as two. The premise is that an ostrich, a snail and a fantasy creature called Holey Moley are operating an underground television station. Old black-and-white film footage is spliced into the show, and static often appears as if a channel were being changed. "This is a show I wish I had as a kid," says Jim George, who created Channel Umptee-3. "I thought, What if there was a show...
...Straya restaurant, complete with palm trees and enough neon to guide air traffic, brings a splash of Las Vegas and Miami Beach to a decaying stretch of New Orleans' elegant St. Charles Avenue, bit back 48 hours later with a two-page ad of his own. Copeland, who favors ostrich-skin cowboy boots and is known across Louisiana as a powerboat racer and founder of Popeyes spicy-fried-chicken chain, began his volley with "Dear Anne" and ended with "P.S.: See you in court. In the meantime, I'm putting a little extra garlic in the food at Straya, keeping...
...Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks By Verna Aardema (Knopf; $17) This Masai tale is wonderful fun to read aloud. That's because of the unusual sound effects. The lioness jumps out of a tree--"gurum!"--and the ostrich chicks run away--"pamdal"--but the lioness, yearning for children even if they have feathers, corrals the chicks and purrs, "Irtil-irtil-irtil." A hyena tries to help the mother ostrich, then slinks away, "Pasa, pasa, pasa." "Nnnn," groans the rightful mother, when suddenly...Quirky illustrations by Yumi Heo are full of gurum, pamdal and lots...
...Mask, Dumb & Dumber and Batman Forever, the star created a maniacally precise comic style. Here--well, he works hard. In the 105 minutes of Ace 2, Carrey rides an ostrich; feeds an eaglet mouth to mouth; emerges from the anus of a mechanical rhino; makes his eyebrows move like kooky caterpillars; bends over and utters the Tarzan cry through his rear; sneezes on, spits at and blows paper wads into the faces of various African men; and sings Chitty Chitty Bang Bang several times more than is absolutely necessary...
...Lady--she still hasn't sat down with the Clintons--world leaders from Yasser Arafat to Jiang Zemin, celebrity icons (Astaire, Garland, Carson) and cons (Mr. T, Suzanne Somers) and, by her own count, seven alleged murderers. This woman, who was caricatured in her Sarah Lawrence yearbook as an ostrich with its head in the sand, has stuck her nose into the conflict in the Middle East, the Iran-contra scandal and the marriage of Mike Tyson and Robin Givens. She is a living, talking, occasionally fawning chronicle of culture and politics in the latter half of the 20th century...