Word: poohs
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Journalism loves an easy irony--and no irony is sweeter than the idea that some creator of a cherished work should have proved less lovable than his or her creations. What most adult lovers of the Winnie-the-Pooh books seem to know about author A.A. Milne is that through a combination of obliviousness and neglect, he saddled his only son Christopher with a perfectly awful childhood--a fact that rocked the world in 1974 when Christopher Milne's memoir The Enchanted Places first appeared. In it, the "real" Christopher Robin painted the portrait of a father who was cold...
Subsequent scholarship, meanwhile, has done a little of its own debunking. In her 1990 biography A.A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh, Ann Thwaite used letters the father had written to which the son would not have had access to show that Milne was actually far more involved in his son's life and upbringing than Christopher had remembered...
...clean!" marveled Dan, on first seeing the home of Space Mountain and giant Goofy impersonators. "I want to be worthy of living here!" exclaimed Roseanne's sister Jackie. Daughter Darlene was a sour holdout at first, but even she was won over--by a big hug from Winnie the Pooh...
...been leaving candy in the [Winnie the] Pooh statue [behind the Science Center], and then I go back later to see if it is still there," says Ajalat...
...Johnson's decision to return, Magic reluctantly accepted an invitation to play in one of the pickup games organized by Jordan while the Bulls star was in Hollywood last summer filming a movie for Warner Bros. In a game against a team that included Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Pooh Richardson, Magic scored 9 of his team's 11 points. On the ride home that night, Johnson told his friend, former N.B.A. player Lester Conner, "I needed this for myself. To know where I'm at. To know I can still play at this level against the best...