Word: rodents
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...Mickey Mouse, and he's the subject of his own biography. Mickey Mouse: His Life and Times (Harper & Row; 96 pages; $14.95) documents the career of Walt Disney's cartoon creation, the cheerful rodent who lifted America's spirits during the Great Depression and went on to become a beloved international star. Mickeymania inspired books, toys, watches and countless other items, many of which are pictured in Mickey Mouse Memorabilia: The Vintage Years 1928-1938 (Abrams; 180 pages; $27.50). Whether happily dozing in an armchair that is the base of a lamp or merrily dancing with his Minnie atop...
...many--on the tumble dryer, she has shown her willingness to bare all. (For those counting at home, Winslet also went the full monty in Jude, Hideous Kinky, Holy Smoke, Quills and Iris.) Even in Flushed Away, the new animated film in which she's the voice of a rodent, Rita, her character loses her trousers...
...nice family in Kensington, Roddy has impeccable manners and a chipper demeanor that can't quite mask his loneliness. So when he's flushed down a toilet into the London sewer system, and discovers a complex underworld underground, he is at first horrified, then thrilled to join a plucky rodent named Rita (Kate Winslet) in her comrades' battle against the pompous toad king (Ian McKellen). This, Roddy realizes, is the bustle and agitation he's been missing-the agita and ecstasy of life...
...threat of tadpoles plaguing London is somehow more horrifying than the actual pestilence of rats every large city suffers from. But it's a fantasy-with attitude. Toad is, if not a racist, a species-ist; after some rats bungle an assignment, he complains, "I should never have had rodents do an amphibian's job." It has fun at the expense of Germans and especially the French, who are portrayed as cowardly and snobbish. ("You find my pain funny?" asks Toad of a French creature called Le Frog, voiced by Jean Reno. Le Frog replies, "I find everyone's pain...
...eats rodent or bird infected with Toxoplasma gondii parasite...