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...minutes. The acknowledged model is Hawks's Bringing Up Baby, but influence, allusion and satire run infinitely wider--from D.W. Griffith to Bugs Bunny. Eisenstein to Erich Segal to Bogart. It is a movie made out of movies, and right from the opening credits presented as pages in a storybook. Bogdanovich wrings every cliche to its uttermost. Every gag, every twist of plot, has been aged in a thousand earlier uses...
...children, like so many young British performers, possess the happy talent of being engaging but never cloying, while the adult actors perform with the right kind of storybook flair...
...Cragun (as Kate and Petruchio). Shakespeare's antic frolic, set to a score composed of snatches of Scarlatti music, subtly explores a remarkable range of domestic feeling from dominance to submission and finally to partnership. For Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, the fourth full-length storybook ballet that Stuttgart is offering U.S. audiences, Cranko discards the whole Tchaikovsky opera score in favor of a graceful montage that helps make the ballet a romantic matinee idyll...
Palace Life. Nixon was the Sanchezes' sponsor when they sought U.S. citizenship in 1968, delaying his departure to the Republican Convention long enough to stand beside Manolo and Fina as they received their naturalization papers. The move from refugees to White House residents has a storybook quality to the Sanchezes. Says Fina: "Every night we thank God for what we have. It's like you live in a history book." And Manolo: "It's the palace of the United States. How many other immigrants have had our chance...
John McCandish King is a storybook example of the go-getting American entrepreneur, a man who is willing to take the big risk to get the big reward and knows how to use technology and the tax laws. Starting with a $1,500 investment in an Oklahoma oil-drilling venture, he has amassed a personal fortune recently estimated at $480 million. Though the stock-market skid has somewhat deflated his holdings, he does not have to worry where his next oil well is coming from. At 43, he is a big bear...