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...fact the place is not so much a museum as a kind of genial time capsule about a small-town boy who made good. A snapshot of two-year-old Danny clutching a toy football, a small boy's grimace of determination on his face. A letter he wrote to his uncle when he was 12 explaining why he lost a nine- hole Jaycee golf tournament ("A 14-year-old kid who shot a 49 he ((sic)) beat me on the 17th"). A photo of an awestruck Dan as a college student shaking hands with Ronald Reagan (not unlike...
...their closet." Jurassic Park exploits that passive dark side: that moment, just after your mom shuts off the lights, when a T. rex leaps out of its wall poster and into your fevered R.E.M.s. And Last Action Hero taps the aggressive impulse: to engineer the apocalyptic collision of every toy car in the playroom. The two films may talk the parenting game, but what they show is the Big Scare and the Big Crash...
...Hammond played by Richard Attenborough in Steven Spielberg's movie version is another fellow altogether; the director calls him "a cross between Walt Disney and Ross Perot." Hammond is certainly a visionary, a fabulous showman, an enthusiast, an emperor of ice cream, a kid with a great new toy. "Top of the line!" he chirps. "Spared no expense!" Why, he might be Spielberg as a foxy grandpa...
...death count in a fire at a toy factory near Bangkok passed 200, the worst ever in a factory blaze...
...black one by "dressing it in the best clothes, or having it sit next to you, or doing anything you can think of to make your child sense that you prefer that doll." After that, the Hopsons say, the child can be offered a chance to play with the toy, on the condition that "you promise to take the very best care of it. You know it is my favorite." By doing so, the Hopsons claim, "most children will jump at a chance to hold the toy even for a second...