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...hero-narrator made up in part of Twain, Horatio Alger and the Dead End Kids. Walter Claireborne Rawley first appears as a nine-year-old St. Louis street urchin in 1924. Jaded beyond his years, with a side-of-the-mouth style of flip talk ("Well, shave my tonsils"), Walt recalls meeting the mysterious Master Yehudi, the man who would change his life: "We were standing in front of the Paradise Cafe, a slick downtown gin mill." "You're no better than an animal," the master greets him. "If you come with me, I'll teach...
...street smarts, Walt buys this line. Luckily for him the master is not a child molester but a visionary entrepreneur. He puts the little smart aleck through several years of grueling physical and spiritual drills. One day Walt finds himself rising off the kitchen floor. What he has learned is not how to fly, exactly, but how to perform increasingly prolonged and baroque feats of levitation...
...Walt Disney Co. announced a joint venture with three Baby Bell phone companies that will eventually provide "movies on demand, interactive home shopping, educational programs, games, travel assistance and more" to 50 million customers in 19 states. The new venture, which reverses a well-publicized reluctance by Disney CEO Michael Eisner to enter the information superhighway, also includes plans for a "video navigator," heralded as the TV Guide of the 500-channel future...
...Walt Disney Co. will pull its animated summer smash "The Lion King" out of theaters on September 23, and re-release the film in late November in hopes of dominating the year's two biggest movie seasons. This novel marketing strategy is intended to coincide with school vacations, revitalizing the movie's audience appeal and chances for Academy Award nominations, which occur in the winter. Though the movie has been the source of some controversy over political incorrectness and threats of a lawsuit over copyright violations by a Japanese firm, no changes to the film's content are planned. Total...
Others would try to outlast it, or at least outwit it, through cryonics, say (though it may be no coincidence that their most famous example is said to be Walt Disney). And others talk blithely of Dr. Kevorkian or 100,000 dead in Hiroshima, as if to avoid its more immediate implications for us. But the fact remains: this article will someday be posthumous. That face I touch will, in the not too distant future, be out of reach. Tibetan Buddhists meditate upon images of dancing skulls, and ancient Egyptians, during feasts, had skeletons brought to their tables...