Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pooh...
...Disney's Pooh presumption [Feb. 18] isn't worth a tiddley...
Winnie the Pooh and The Honey Tree turns the Disney animaters loose on a tribute to A. A. Milne's classic storybook characters. The drawings are a rough but not treasonable facsimile of the famous Shepard illustrations, pleasantly introducing Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and Rabbit. It is the voices that sound dead wrong. Speaking for Pooh, Comedian Sterling Holloway makes Christopher Robin's friend seem a dry American, as if the world of Milne had collided in Disneyland with the world of Twain. And Pooh purists will certainly wince at a new batch of song lyrics, starting with...
...parks, anywhere that people might pick them up and steal them." She is quite jealous of every word, and every representation of her words. She carefully goes over each picture for her books with her illustrator, Mary Shepard, who is the daughter of the man that illustrated Winnie the Pooh...
Alan King, one of the pooh-bahs of show biz, plays the psychiatrist with two alternating expressions. He pops his eyes like the late Benito Mussolini, and he breaks into a slow-burn grin like a pregnant volcano. This gives him wice the comic range of the play...