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...tries to ensure a fair trial for the four Iran-contra defendants, Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell has criticized the congressional committees that investigated the affair for vastly complicating his chore. The committees "were interested much more in what the President knew," Gesell growled last month. "They were chasing a rabbit they never caught." Last week he hinted that some of the smaller quarry -- Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim -- may also elude the criminal snares set by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh...
Though many tried, not a one could match the loving precision with which I recreated the intonations of Carl Spagler--the cretinous golf course groundskeeper-turned-gopher-killer the future ghostbuster played in Caddys-hack. "Hello? Mr. Gopher? Yeah, hi, it's me, Mr. Rabbit," Carl would say as he dangled a plastic explosive in the shape of a rabbit into the gopher's hole. "I'mnot a plastic explosive or anything...
Perhaps the most delectable oyster invention of all belongs to Karl Beckley, 34, who combines the mollusks with corn in airy pancakes topped with salmon caviar at his postmodern, pastel-spattered Green Lake Grill. Cream of nettle soup and roast rabbit with sweet peppers and glazed garlic cloves are some of Beckley's other triumphs...
...success boosts the company's profits and morale, just as valuable for Disney in the long run are new animated features whose characters can inspire fresh theme-park attractions and licensed products. Disney has high hopes for this summer's combination live-action and animated feature, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the story of Roger's search for the culprit who set him up for a murder rap. Even with Steven Spielberg producing it, the film is a major gamble. Its cost is rumored to be $38 million or more, which has inspired ominous comparisons with Howard the Duck, a notorious...
More pixilation is on the way. At Disneyland, stonemasons are now building the facade for the $35 million Splash Mountain, in which passengers will ride replicas of hollowed-out logs down huge slides and through tableaus populated by 101 robotic characters like Br'er Rabbit from Disney's 1946 film Song of the South. "We can control how much the passengers get wet, depending on the time of year," Eisner points out mischievously...