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...moans of—er—pleasure are certain to turn to groans of a different kind when the comedy takes a hard right turn into romantic comedy cheese. As Wilson and his movie love interest bicycle down a hill into a herd of grazing goats, any veteran of “Dodgeball” or “Zoolander” would bet on an awesome crash into some very disgruntled animals. Sadly, only some girls may be left in “awwwww” as the precious little creatures trot away...
...privileged moment when Karin is told of a career opportunity and the ecstasy of anticipation briefly floods her face, as radiant as that sunlit church. Bergman keeps energizing Saraband with such touchstones; he builds the edifice of the film on this latticework. And these superb actors - three veteran colleagues, one (Dufvenius) a newcomer in the great tradition of Bergman ingenues - give the characters sinew and subtlety...
...DIED. JOHN FIEDLER, 80, and PAUL WINCHELL, 82, voice-over specialists known for delighting young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films with their performances as the ever-anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, New Jersey and Moorpark, California, respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played other memorable roles, including Mr. Peterson, the brow-beaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show in the 1970s. Winchell, an early star of TV who regularly performed his ventriloquist act on variety shows in the 1950s and '60s, coined Tigger's trademark sign...
...DIED. JOHN WALTON, 58, entrepreneurial billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton; after the home-built plane he was piloting crashed in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. Reluctant to work for the family business, the decorated Vietnam veteran launched successful ventures in sailboat building and crop-dusting, and was a pivotal board member of the Waltons' philanthropic foundation, which notably set up a fund to send underprivileged children to private schools...
DIED. JOHN FIEDLER, 80, and PAUL WINCHELL, 82, voice-over specialists who delighted young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films as two of Pooh's best pals, the ever anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, N.J., and Moorpark, Calif., respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played Mr. Peterson, the browbeaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show, and Winchell, a popular ventriloquist, coined Tigger's trademark sign...