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Videocassettes for children are shaping up to be some of this season's hottest stocking stuffers. Among the stars are such old friends as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Pinocchio (the classic Walt Disney movie is currently the top- selling children's cassette). But more recent favorites--from movies, TV and toy stores--include Rainbow Brite, the Care Bears, My Little Pony and the Transformers. Kidvid now accounts for 15% of the total home-video business, according to some industry estimates. Moreover, with their relatively low prices (typically between $10 and $40), children's tapes are usually bought rather than...
...Testament story seems retold as often as the episode of Jonah swallowed whole (there are strong suggestions of it in works as disparate as Pinocchio and Jaws). But somehow Warwick Hutton has found a way of giving the tale a fresh approach in Jonah and the Great Fish (Atheneum; $12.95). The text is simplified but not simpleminded, and if the sins have been scaled down, the sinner has not. As Jonah and his shipmates are buffeted by the tempest, the wind seems to blow from the page, and the great fish that consumes him soon turns from a monster into...
Mickey Mouse is there to greet visitors. Also on hand are Minnie, Tinker Bell, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Donald Duck and Dumbo. So are Fantasyland, Tomorrowland and other lures for the 32 million Japanese who live within a 30-mile radius, as well as for tourists from all over...
...inspirational sketches" for his animators. At the studio, "fine art" was stressed. As one executive had it, "If it works in a Rubens it must work in Donald Duck." Proof is offered in the book's juxtaposition of Renaissance sketches with drawings from the early Snow White and Pinocchio, to the still unfinished feature The Black Cauldron. The comparison holds; these oversize pages contain small masterpieces of illustration that deserve a place on museum walls. Onscreen, the cartoons went by at the speed of 24 frames per sec. In this greatest of all Disney festivals, the work appears timeless...
...flourishing new breed of tax liars that Will Rogers never dreamed of, and his nose, like Pinocchio's when he lied, should be growing longer and longer. When he files his income tax return next week, Hal will report virtually none of the $25,000 he made last year as a self-employed carpenter in the Boston area. For the past three years, Hal and his wife have filed joint returns listing as income only her $12,000 salary as a social worker and the small amount he is paid by check rather than in cash. The carpenter figures...