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...Side of the Mountain, Radnitz claims, is intended for the whole family. But its main appeal is obviously to the intelligent preteenager interested in natural history. Sam (Teddy Eccles) is a Canadian youth who decides that four walls and two parents are too confining. With his pet raccoon Gus, he runs off to the Laurentian Mountains, befriends a falcon, a librarian and a folk singer (Theodore Bikel). The singer teaches Sam a fundamental truth: no boy is an island, entire of itself-and prepares him for the long hike home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gold in the Straw | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Americans are jubilant over Apollo 10, the first successful attempt to put three men and a raccoon in lunar orbit. The Loeb breaks box office records with its revival of The Mousetrap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...schmaltzy Good Night, a sweeping panorama of pop genres unfolds in parodies, pastiches, takeoffs and put-ons. The boys even spoof themselves. George Harrison's Savoy Truffle contains a cross reference to Lennon and Mc Cartney's Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. In Rocky Raccoon, Paul McCartney imitates successfully and amusingly the nasal delivery of Bob Dylan. The lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: The Mannerist Phase | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...days when Harvard and Yale dominated college football went out with raccoon coats and bootleg booze. Ivy League schools do not hold spring practice; they are sparing with their athletic scholarships, and they demand more than passing grades in physical education. But each fall, when Harvard and Yale clash in the climactic contest of the Ivy season, for thousands of loyal alumni-and for tradition-minded fans everywhere-the game is still The Game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: The Game That Was | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...Kicks. Phyllis Diller owns three Excaliburs, in yellow, silver and grey-presumably rotated to match her hair. Bobby Darin, Eddie Albert, Actor James Darren, Batman Adam West and Writer Rod Serling have one apiece. Steve McQueen got one for his wife. Dick Van Dyke and his wife wear raccoon coats while tooling around in their yellow model; when people yell hello, Dick and Marjorie wave little pennants that say "HI." Tony Curtis sold his two Excaliburs. He's got four other cars anyway, and besides, Tony gets his kicks now by restoring authentic antique cars. "I suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Stars' Cars | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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