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...ANGELES: Roy Rogers was "King of the Cowboys" when cowboys sang and played guitar, when they rode all day and came home clean, soiled by neither dust nor sweat. When, rather than reveling in bloodshed, Clint-like, they simply shot the gun out of the villain's hand. By the time Roy Rogers -- husband to Dale Evans, rider of Trigger and friend to Gabby Hayes -- died Monday of heart failure at the age of 86, a lot had changed in Hollywood's Old West...
...dragon through the opening shots of Mulan, a strange and beguiling new breed of Disney animated feature. This is, in part, a war movie that understands loss, desolation, death. Power and discipline are the motifs here: bending your will and others', bending the system while working within it. The villain, a crazed, WWF-style hulkster named Shan-Yu, has no comic irony softening his brute trapezoidal lines. He's just an evil machine with vampire teeth. The Wall, the vast plains and hills, the Forbidden City itself, all cringe at his shadow...
...protein, potassium and other vitamins and minerals. And unlike other sources of calcium, such as, say, steamed kale, milk is a food kids will eat. The ADC feels that milk is the root of most human maladies, but I can point to other single-issue obsessives who insist the villain is meat or wheat or sugar or some other substance that our species has long and happily consumed. I often learn something by examining their claims. But I keep coming back to the mainstream nutritionists, who emphasize a balanced diet and advise moderation in all things...
...colleagues and family say Richardson is hardly a villain...
...admittedly, I can be the worst villain in this regard--I suffer from my own insecurities and can be very passive. There are certainly people I know on campus, people I don't dislike, but people whom I don't address when I pass them on the street...