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Father Ronald Knox once observed, "The humorist runs with the hare; the satirist hunts with the hounds." Baying through this Russian blizzard of hilarity, Woody Allen, former rabbit, is at least trying to create a beagle. The fact that most of the time it comes out bagel should not discourage him. In any Allen film there can be only one winner: the viewer. · Stefan Kanfer...
Milne wears his rue with a certain deference. Most of his revelations are brief, more marked by tact and irony than by whine or whimsy. In truth, Mummy, a daughter of the rich and distinguished de Sélincourt family, does not come off very well. When Rabbit says to Owl, "You and I have brains. The others just have fluff," Milne makes clear that "the others" emphatically included his mother. She was dim, she hated games and was good only at gardening, interior decoration and tying parcels-the one "practical thing she was properly taught in her whole life...
...Galleon's Lap (where Pooh and C.R. said their last goodbye), Christopher Robin's tree house and the Pooh-sticks Bridge were real. The book offers photographs juxtaposed against E.H. Shepherd's matchless drawings to prove it. The animals were real too, except for Owl and Rabbit, though Kanga and Tigger, Milne explains, "were later arrivals, carefully chosen ... for their literary possibilities...
Moreover, as the dollar's value shrivels, the cost of foreign imports into the U.S. swells, contributing to American inflation. A fully equipped Volkswagen Rabbit, for instance, can now carry a price tag of nearly $4,000-as much as a medium-sized Ford Granada...
...J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkein, a professor of English, invented a whole mythological world for his fairy-tale creatures to inhabit; they in turn, are more concerned with forces of good and evil than with practical necessities like food, clothing, and shieter. Adams's rabbits, on the other hand, are part of the natural world of the English countryside-their enemies are bulldozers and carnivores and bad weather, not trolls and sorcerors. Watership Down is a fantasy in which the rabbits talk to each other, and otherwise behave inteligently in their own rabbit-like ways...