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...winces at violent movies anymore, unless a dog is killed. No one is surprised when they open the paper and read about the latest case of genocide in a foreign country or a murder spree in our own. No one minds when little boys are aggressive and play with toy guns. And no one minds when those same little boys are allowed access to real guns by elastic gun control laws...
...surprising that the U.S. government refuses to ban weapons. In India our forefathers would not allow a child even to pick up a toy knife or gun in a shop or play cops and robbers. The idea was that seeds of violence should never enter a child's mind. KRISHNA RAMAN Chennai, India...
...Tough to Be a Bug!, a 3-D film with in-theater effects on the order of the Honey, I Shrunk the Audience attraction at EPCOT. Inspired by characters in this fall's film release A Bug's Life (from Disney and Pixar, the tandem that made Toy Story), this creepy-crawly mini-epic features a cast of zillions and plenty of clever insect asides. But the kids will love the gross-out effects. One tiny creature, the Termite-ator, blows "snot" at the audience (you will get wet). A stink bug backs up to the screen and engulfs...
Some kids fixate on toy cars or trucks or guns. When David Bohnett, founder of the surprise smash-hit Website GeoCities www.geocities.com) was a little boy, his obsession was the telephone. "I still think phones are the coolest," he says. He remembers when touch-tone phones first came to Hinsdale, Ill., his hometown. "I told my parents I'd give up my allowance if they got one," he says...
Disney is keenly aware of the stakes. The company has high hopes for its own computer-animated release this November: A Bug's Life, created by Steve Jobs' Pixar, the folks who brought the world Toy Story in 1995. When DreamWorks moved the premiere of Prince of Egypt to December to keep it away from A Bug's Life, Disney announced it was moving Mighty Joe Young--a picture starring Bill Paxton and an ape--from this summer to Prince's new date. DreamWorks has its own computer-created insect feature, Antz, coming...