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That noon at the Peter Rabbit diner I met Brisket, who owns the big motel by the interstate, and Graftwell, the paving contractor. They were having lunch with the Town Fool, one of our town's two registered Democrats. It was the Fool who in 1988 urged that the Democrats nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the theory that F.D.R. at room temperature was smarter than Bob Dole or George Bush at 98.6. The Constitution, he had pointed out, requires that a President be native born and at least 35 years old, but does not insist that he be alive. After...
Star power has come to children's video. More important, so has the lost art of storytelling. Credit goes to a small Connecticut company called Rabbit Ears Productions, which for six years has been assembling a library of children's literature on video. Each story is illustrated by a top-flight artist, scored by a noted composer (Ry Cooder, Herbie Hancock) and narrated by a moonlighting Hollywood actor...
...success of Rabbit Ears has a fairy-tale quality of its own. The company is the brainchild of Mark Sottnick, 46, a former high school science teacher from Philadelphia, who began making children's films in the early '80s. In 1985 he and his partner (and now wife) Doris Wilhousky produced a TV version of one of their favorite children's stories, The Velveteen Rabbit. They managed to persuade Meryl Streep -- the "friend of a friend" -- to read the narration. The tape won a passel of awards and set Rabbit Ears hopping. In the past year the staff has grown...
Sottnick is quick to admit that because of the low action level and sophisticated content of Rabbit Ears tapes, "they're not going to be every kid's cup of tea." But he adds, "I think the stories should be what every parent strives for: not to sell kids short." In an age of Smurfs, Urkels and Ninja Turtles, that should be music to parents' ears...
Unlike the Energizer Rabbit--who walks funny and wears cool shades--the PC debate has become intensely dull. Right-wing ideologues accuse the "PC thought police" of baseless name-calling, intolerance, self-righteousness and McCarthyism. Left-wing ideologues accuse the right-wingers of--you guessed it--baseless name-calling, intolerance, self-righteousness and McCarthyism...