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Until recently, the same reaction would have greeted anybody with a notion of resurrecting the nearly moribund art of animation. Feature films as lavishly animated as Walt Disney classics like Fantasia and Pinocchio? That sort of craftsmanship seemed as antiquated as hand-stitched lace curtains. Cartoon shorts before the main feature in movie theaters? Too expensive -- and anyway, they would only slow down the parade of customers filing in and out of the multiplex. Animation in prime time? Went out with The Flintstones...
...Pinocchio's has long been considered a mecca for Harvard Square soccer fans, and support for the Italian national team runs high in the pizza parlor...
Soccer expert Rico DiCenso, of Pinocchio's pizza parlor, said the Germans had a distinct psychological advantage...
...REISSUE PINOCCHIO? The Walt Disney studio is developing a feature film to be called The Passion of Richard Nixon. John Malkovich has been approached about the title role, and production is scheduled for later this year. Producer David Permut (Dragnet) describes the project as a "story about a man desperately trying to overcompensate in everything...
Some puppets, having had their strings loosened or even cut, can be expected, like Pinocchio, to misbehave as badly as ever. Fidel Castro, for example, is almost as much at odds with Moscow as he is with Washington. But that is no argument for a diplomatic boycott. Quite the contrary. The U.S. would have more clout with such miscreants if it dealt with them directly, through American ambassadors who could remonstrate with local officials and gather intelligence...