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...think they've spotted at least two new planes near U.S. testing bases. One version is believed to be a prototype of the A-12, a successor to the Navy's A-6 attack plane, which is expected to cost some $60 million apiece. The plane has no vertical tail surface, giving it the appearance of a manta ray, according to one witness. Little is known about a separate aircraft being tested in northern California, which spotters say appears to be a successor to the F-117A fighter but is powered by a quieter engine. The Air Force developed...
...Disney's The Jungle Book. Opening this weekend is DuckTales: The Movie, based on Disney's hit TV cartoon series. Due out later this year: The Rescuers Down Under, also from Disney, and Rock-A-Doodle, an adaptation of a Chaucer tale from animator Don Bluth (An American Tail...
...animation." The current revival was sparked by Walt Disney Studios, which has more than tripled the size of its theatrical-animation unit since 1984 and ventured into TV cartoons for the first time. The busiest newcomer is Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, which has produced cartoon features like An American Tail and maintains an animation unit of more than 300 in London. Even Hanna-Barbera, the K mart of TV cartooning (The Flintstones, The Smurfs), is upgrading quality with such features as The Endangered, an ecological adventure film that will cost $14 million and take a Disney-like 2 1/2 years...
...film-noir thriller. Gotham, a moody mystery about a Manhattan detective (Tommy Lee Jones) investigating an enigmatic woman (Virginia Madsen) who is supposed to be dead, was Showtime's highest-rated made-for-TV movie in 1988. Third Degree Burn, starring Treat Williams as a private eye hired to tail another mysterious blond (Madsen again), was the most-watched original film on HBO last year. The USA Network, which is churning out made-for-TV films -- most of them murder mysteries -- at the rate of two a month, scored its best ratings ever with The China Lake Murders last January...
...twentysomething generation has been neglected because it exists in the shadow of the baby boomers, usually defined as the 72 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964. Members of the tail end of the boom generation, now ages 26 through 29, often feel alienated from the larger group, like kid brothers and sisters who disdain the paths their siblings chose. The boomer group is so huge that it tends to define every era it passes through, forcing society to accommodate its moods and dimensions. Even relatively small bunches of boomers made waves, most notably the 4 million or so young...