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...there any law that prevents me declaring Pelican Island a National Bird Sanctuary?" T.R. asked, not waiting long for an answer. "Very well, then," reaching for his pen, "I do declare...
...have generally come to be in the world of movies: a manipulative, diluted heap of cliches. The even greater tragedy is that the Grisham-studio team has swept up many a prominent director in its platitudes. Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, The Firm), Alan Pakula (Sophie's Choice, The Pelican Brief), and Joel Schumacher (Falling Down, A Time to Kill) have fallen prey to the Grisham spell...
...recently sold Denver the nine-year-old plane says the singer took it up for two checkout flights before the final, fatal one. The investigation still being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board may test another theory: that Denver had a freak collision with a pelican. But unless the NTSB finds otherwise, Denver, his plane and experimental aircraft in general should probably be presumed innocent...
...last day of Henri Paul's life began with his usual Saturday-morning tennis game. He left the central Paris apartment where he lived alone to join his close friend Claude Garrec at the courts. The men played from 10 until 11, then stopped at the Pelican bar in Paris' 1st arrondissement. There Paul drank only Coca-Cola. That didn't surprise Garrec, who knew his best friend to enjoy the occasional wine or pastis (a French liqueur flavored with aniseed that is about as potent as whiskey). At 12:30 Paul said his farewells, telling Garrec that...
...summer movies for 1996, writer-director Alan Shapiro was approached by the studio's merchandising department. The executives had a problem: there were only three characters in the film suitable for licensing to stuffed-animal makers--Flipper, Scar the Hammerhead Shark and Pete the Pelican. Toy manufacturers were demanding a fourth to round out the Flipper line. "But the movie's been shot," Shapiro argued. "It's too late to add a fourth character." Nevertheless, Shapiro and the executives screened a rough cut of the film and noticed a montage sequence during which a sea turtle swam by. And thus...