Word: toye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...UNDER EERIE YELLOW strobe lights at 3 a.m. in Tel Aviv's newly named Yitzhak Rabin Square, Yigal Amir again fired a pistol at a victim less than a yard away. This time the gun was a toy and the Prime Minister, whom Amir assassinated on the same spot 12 days before, was played by a policeman. Amir wore a white bulletproof vest, and a chain around his waist yoked him to police escorts while he coolly re-enacted the killing for official video cameras. "Murderer, die! Maniac! You piece of garbage!" shouted Israelis from behind the barricades...
CHARACTERS IN SO MANY LIVE-action movies these days are little more than cartoons. So where to turn for original characters with all-too-human weaknesses? Cartoons, of course. Consider the new Disney animated feature, John Lasseter's Toy Story, which is, incidentally, the first full-length film created wholly by computer and, not at all incidentally--by design, in fact--the year's most inventive comedy...
...Andy's bedroom the toys are alive. They are also working stiffs with the fear, every time a birthday approaches, that they will be replaced by more sophisticated gewgaws. Toy Town's leader, a cloth cowboy named Sheriff Woody (wonderfully voiced by Tom Hanks), talks to his charges as if he's a genial teacher and they are slow kids. Actually, they're finicky adults. Rex (Wallace Shawn), a sexually insecure dinosaur, dreams of being "the dominant predator." Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles) grumbles about planned obsolescence while praying that Andy's new prized toy will be Mrs. Potato Head...
...that never done nothin'/ But to build and destroy/ You play with my world like it's your little toy." --Bob Dylan...
Susan Zeeman Roger's multitiered, raked set, a recreation of the ship which actually "sinks", is as intriguing as a toy in a shop window, and is a visual complement to the child-like gleefulness of this very adult play. Sound elements, such as the ironic "Victory at Sea" entrance music and the incongruous barnyard sound-effects playing off-stage add a witty undercurrent to the action of the play...