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...more of the smart same. Young MacPee-wee has a farm that is a sort of summer camp -- high camp -- for animals. In the barn, the sheep and cow sleep in beds. For breakfast the horse flaps pancakes, and Pee-wee's talking-pig pal devours them. At the hint of a hurricane, Pee-wee leads his brood into the storm cellar ("Women and chickens first!") and dresses them in party hats. Because there are no other humans on the farm and few children nearby, Pee-wee is his own role model, his only playmate, and the film...
Twenty-five years ago, as legend has it, a genie with a six-day stubble alighted on Clint Eastwood's shoulder and vouchsafed him the secret of star acting: "Don't act. You're an icon, pal. Get used to it." The advice has served Eastwood well. From his starmaking stint as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns to this, his fifth film as Dirty Harry Callahan, Eastwood has built a durable celebrity on his unique brand of Zen surliness. By now his character need hardly cock an eyebrow, let alone a trigger, to send...
Moreover, Wright received an unheard-of royalty of 55% (normal would be 10% to 15%) on sales of an alleged book, a thin and uninteresting collection of random thoughts published by a Fort Worth printer and longtime Wright pal. Some of the buyers have candidly admitted that they bought the book in bulk as a way to make donations to Wright that would have been legally forbidden in any other form...
Though I have no immediate plans to meet my pen pal, I was happy to learn that people on the other side of the country actually care about what appears on this page. I also think that the sports page as a whole benefited from the exchange...
...kidding. Hadn't you heard that JFK '40 had close links to the underworld?" came the raspy reply of my undead ex-pal. "But seriously. I have come back to this world to help you rectify your mistake before it is"--thunder boomed--"too late...