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Travolta cannot be immune to this mythmaking process. Like autograph hounds, it comes with the territory, and the quiet kid from Englewood, N.J., is already getting typed as a kind of Steiff Toy hoodlum. This has something to do, of course, with the parts that have brought him fame: Vinnie Barbarino in Kotter, Tony in Saturday Night Fever, even Danny Zuko, the cuddly tough guy in Grease, all rough-and-ready proles with a hint of self-mockery and a double dose of wistfulness. Travolta's low profile will be his best chance of holding onto his privacy and whatever...
...heavies while at the same time being pursued by the state police, who mistake him, understandably, for a menace to society. "I hate you so much it hurts," Suzy spits at Newman, struggling to summon an expression of pain to her ravishing countenance. Newman, looking carefully scruffy, like a Steiff animal mangled in the manufacturing, survives this as well as other abuse. The denouement finds him locked in deadly psychological combat with the bad guys in a bathysphere at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Although Newman eventually sweats out crucial information from the suffocating villains, the ending might...
...sympathy has found an ideal method of adaptation-the dance. Using members of the Royal Ballet, Choreographer Frederick Ashton has literally given Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter a new dimension. Jeremy Fisher the Frog, Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mr. Fox and Co. spring and caper like Steiff toys given the spark of life. Around them spreads England's green and pleasant Lake District from which Beatrix drew her inspiration...
...well as a fair amount of interesting history. Sample: Everyone knows that a cartoon showing Teddy Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub in 1902 led to the Teddy, but no one, not even Bull, can say whether the first bear was stuffed by the famous house of Steiff in Germany, or a chap named Morris Michtom in Brooklyn. Less for kids than for arctophiles...
Triumphant Symbol. Teddy bears are precisely 67 years old. The name was attached to a new line of stuffed bruins manufactured by the forerunner of the Ideal Toy Corp. and by Germany's Steiff Co. after President Theodore Roosevelt, on an expedition to Mississippi in 1902, refused to shoot a bear cub. Washington Star Cartoonist Clifford Berryman instantly made the cub a symbol for Roosevelt, and the country went for the notion lock, stock, and bear jokes. (If T.R. is President when he is fully dressed, went one knee-slapper, what is he with his clothes off? Answer: Teddy...