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...mornings. Castro's healthy proclivities are also apparent in her office, which is crammed with thriving plants, Ansel Adams photographs recycled from discarded calendars, baseball trophies and rolls of earth-friendly gift-wrapping paper. Amid the creative clutter on her desk: a bottle of spring water and a Slinky toy. "I use it sometimes to concentrate when I'm writing," Castro explains. "It seems to work. And it's simple...
...Plainfield, N.J., 50 people demonstrated outside police headquarters, charging that a policeman beat Uriah Hannah, a 14-year-old black. Last Sunday Hannah and his friends were playing with a remote-controlled toy car on a sidewalk near his home. A motorist stopped short at the spot where the boys were playing, and a police cruiser ran into the rear of his car. Hannah's parents, whose older son allegedly committed suicide in police custody last year, charged that the officer jumped from his car, accused the teenager of obstructing traffic and at one point tried to choke...
Kilmer is just conventionally good-looking; he can't prowl like Blake's Tyger or pose with the sultry arrogance of a Beat poet. Nor does he have the intellectual seductiveness that made Morrison a toy of the hip literati. In short, Kilmer is not Jim, and his casting denies The Doors the chance to be a meditation on the lure of sexual power. What else can the movie be? Morrison and his band were not political pathfinders, and musically they were close to negligible, with one compelling tune (Light My Fire) and an ambitious, pretentious attitude. The Doors...
...return to Hollywood's golden age, when Garbo, Davis, Hepburn, Crawford, Dietrich could sell a film and give it class. That was a more genteel time, one that prized wit, heart and, on screen at least, a sexual equality of emotion and intelligence. Movies were about grownups; the toy-boy heroes stayed in comic books. Maybe audiences were more mature too. These days, Ghost and Pretty Woman are the big-hit exception, not the norm; moviegoers tend to measure heroism in terms of pectorals. Somewhere ! between Rambo and bimbo, between roles for children (the only age group in which...
...After 21 years with Quaker Oats, Mike Krause, 50, was running the European operations of the company's Fisher-Price toy subsidiary when Quaker decided to sell the business last spring. Krause, one of 1,300 employees whose jobs were eliminated, has been looking for work ever since...