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...dogs singing Dixie over the frozen peas. A petting zoo with live geese and goats. Free balloons and ice-cream cones. Employees disguised as ducks waddling down the aisle. Yes, it's just another happy, cornball day at Stew Leonard's, "the world's largest dairy store," according to Ripley's "Believe It or Not." But where is Stew? Why isn't the 63-year-old retailing legend greeting housewives or patting kids on the head or wearing his cow suit? Well, brace yourself, Ripley. The folks who run the animated megamarket in Norwalk, Connecticut, pleaded guilty last week...
...signaled his presence brilliantly with his brand-new L.A. Gear Light Gear athletic shoes, battery powered so as to illuminate the wearer's every move. Officers say $800 worth of cocaine was found in Acree's pockets. L.A. Gear, naturally, prefers the story of a seven-year-old in Ripley, Tennessee, who disappeared with her three-legged dog Coco, only to be located by police who spotted the constant glow of her sneakers...
...ELICITING THE MENACE THAT LURKS in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith. RIPLEY UNDER WATER (Knopf; $21) is her fifth novel featuring the fastidious, charming murderer Tom Ripley, now living the life of a country gentleman in France. But this time Ripley plays the mouse; the cats are two creepy new American neighbors who seem to know his darkest secrets. Part of the pleasure of reading Highsmith comes from her evocative descriptions of place, whether small French villages or Tangier or London. Even so, they are but momentary diversions from the sense of foreboding and the most...
...perhaps more characteristic is the fervor in the group's hit single, Tennessee. Here, Speech mourns the loss of two relatives and describes his pilgrimage to his ancestral home in Ripley, Tenn. He revels in his family history and the beauty of the rural surroundings: "((I)) walk the roads my forefathers walked,/ Climb the trees my forefathers hung from./ Ask those trees for all their wisdom,/ . . . He guided me to Tennessee . . . home...
ALIEN 3 IS SET IN A MAXIMUM-SECURITY prison at the far, forgotten end of the universe. This dark landscape bespeaks an ambition to rise above sequel status. So does a glum, distancing story, in which Sigourney Weaver's Warrant Officer Ripley, depressed and, yes, alienated, feels pretty much at home in the society of outcasts where her spaceship has accidentally landed. Eventually they join her in the fight against one of the big, nasty creatures she has unknowingly brought with her. But 29-year-old director David Fincher doesn't yet know how to scare us witless...