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Bishop Remi De Roo of Victoria, B.C., the commission chairman, has been happily astonished by the strong reaction, since the bishops' conference has been saying much the same with little effect since the 1970s. "Events have shaken the complacency of people," he said. Canada's current unemployment rate...
...Roo was lost in an apple orchard and never heard from again. The original Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Eeyore and Tigger eventually emigrated to America for purposes of commerce and now sit in a glass wall case in the offices of E.P. Dutton on lower Park Avenue in New York. Friends of Pooh often feel that Milne should object to this, even though they do not keep their own childhood animals around them. "But my Pooh is different, you say; he is the Pooh," writes Milne in reply. "No, this only makes him different to you, not different...
...appalled watching Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs." An attitude like that is bloodthirsty: it's dangerous and corrosive for people to watch these things. I had an offer to star in 'Outback,' that movie made in Australia. You haven't heard of it? There are all these so-called 'roo-bashing' scenes (kangaroo hunting), which were sickening for me to read, let alone watch. I turned it down. One must respect one's private standards...
...killed bills, demanded favors from lobbyists, made or broke political careers with a word. One night in 1963, he invoked an obscure parliamentary procedure to have the Republican assemblymen opposing him on a bill locked up for nearly 23 hours in the assembly chambers. His last name (pronounced Un-roo) is, appropriately, the German word for unrest...
Winnie the Pooh and The Honey Tree turns the Disney animaters loose on a tribute to A. A. Milne's classic storybook characters. The drawings are a rough but not treasonable facsimile of the famous Shepard illustrations, pleasantly introducing Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and Rabbit. It is the voices that sound dead wrong. Speaking for Pooh, Comedian Sterling Holloway makes Christopher Robin's friend seem a dry American, as if the world of Milne had collided in Disneyland with the world of Twain. And Pooh purists will certainly wince at a new batch of song lyrics, starting with...